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Ways YOU can help us clean up our local water supply and improve our natural environment:

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Explore Safe Lawn Care

What does your yard say about you? We all want a safe environment for our family; starting with lawn care is an important step that also contributes to a healthy lake. Fertilize With Care Over-application of nutrients not only may impair plant growth, it can also contaminate...

Explore Rain Gardens

Rain Gardens are an easy way to beautify your yard and the world while contributing to a clean lake. Plant A Rain Garden Rain gardens and bioretention/infiltration devices allow about 30 percent more water to soak into the ground compared to a conventional lawn. These native plant...

Make a Positive Difference

We all can help clean up our local water supply and improve our natural environment. Simple Ways to Make a Positive Difference Pick-up Pet Waste Maintain Your Septic System Support Your Local Municipality’s Sewer Upgrades Farmers Can Follow “Best Management” Practices Volunteer To Help With Stream Monitoring...

Volunteer Monitoring

Through an Ohio Lake Erie Commission grant, a voluntary stream monitoring program will begin this spring!  We are looking for 16 volunteers to monitor designated waterways leading to the Upper Maumee. Volunteer monitors will: Attend a two-hour training session at the Defiance SWCD. Once a month on...

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