Drainage ditches can help clean up field runoff Date: January 4, 2013 Source: United States Department of Agriculture - Research, Education and Economics Summary: Vegetated drainage ditches can ...

In an era of intensifying agriculture and the consequent displacement of perennial vegetation with row crops, Iowa's 750,000 acres of roadside ditches are becoming an increasingly important ...

Over time, developers found that while some people appreciated the natural aesthetic and function of vegetated open ditches, home buyers often viewed ditches with distaste. Consider the case of ...

And just like the rivers and streams, if the banks of the ditches do not have vegetated buffers to prevent soil, fertilizers, pesticides and other toxic material from running into the ditches ...

Then she heard Jeff Supak, head of a nonprofit organization now called Water Wise Gulf South, talk about how simple fixes like rain gardens and vegetated ditches, also known as bioswales ...

The new vegetated ditch will also absorb carbon and create wildlife habitat. The Souris and Area Branch of the P.E.I. Wildlife Federation is one of the partners in the project. "It's going to be ...

and expanding vegetated buffer zones on fields near water and ditches. The rules are part of Vermont's commitment to reduce phosphorus runoff into Lake Champlain, which has been plagued by toxic ...