Local experts from the Vermillion River Watershed Joint Powers Organization will highlight important trends and emerging issues facing the subwatershed, as well as potential solutions. The presentation will focus in on two main concerns, water volume and sediment issues in the Vermillion River.
Next, hear from FMR’s Stewardship Program Manager Adam Flett on actions you can take to make your home, lawn and community more water friendly.
Following the presentation, we’ll have an informal Q & A session. To make sure everyone has a chance to ask questions, and due to limited seating, capacity is limited and advance registration required.
It’s easy, make and take a rain barrel.
What’s one of the simplest, high-impact ways to save water and help protect our watershed? Using a rain barrel.
The workshop will begin with a presentation on how home lawn and garden practices impact our waters and how we can make a difference. Next, we’ll discuss the watershed-friendly benefits of rain barrels in more detail, then review how to build, incorporate, install and maintain them.
With guidance from Friends of the Mississippi River staff, participants will then build their very own rain barrel to take home following the workshop. Participants will receive the necessary parts ($35 per kit) and be guided through the process of converting used syrup barrels from Great Lakes Coca-Cola of Eagan, into a rain barrel to take home and install.
