The watershed boundaries on this map are smaller watershed divisions than those 8-digit HUCs. The Watershed Management Plan is available here. Green infrastructure is the practice of infiltrating stormwater by use of natural systems in order to reestablish a healthy water flow. Kent County has issued a draft report that provides ways to promote a stronger agribusiness economy and recommendations for a comprehensive plan to preserve critical farmland. Freshly planted curb cut bioswale collecting, filtering, and storing stormwater runoff as well as preventing street flooding. These datasets are available to faculty, students, and staff at the University of Waterloo and Wilfrid Laurier University for academic teaching and research purposes. The effects of our everyday activities on natural ecosystems are visible everywhere: native habitats are degraded, wildlife movement is obstructed, surface and groundwater quality is impaired, flooding is more frequent and severe, and our agricultural land is disappearing.

With that goal in mind, GVMC has recently committed to develop a comprehensive, single-source database for Region 4, looking at zoning (including farmland), recreation, transportation, watersheds, parks, infrastructure, and other attributes to be able to consider regional implications when making land use decisions. One of these tools created through a partnership is the “Natural Connections Map”, which illustrates the regional green infrastructure framework in the Lower Grand River Watershed. For the future, however, our focus will have to be on keeping the green places green, and making improvements in other areas as we can. Yet another option is PDF. The boundaries are those used by the Michigan Department of Natural Resources. [8], The Grand descends at a rate of about three feet per mile (0.5 m/km), although the Pop's Branch near Princeton, Missouri descends at 44 feet per mile (8 m/km).[9]. The Big Neck War: In July 1829, a large party of Iowa (or Ioway) Native Americans, led by Chief Big Neck, returned to their former hunting grounds in violation of treaty. The graphic shows the area of southern Michigan covered by the Grand River Watershed and the watersheds of the other rivers that flow into it: Rogue, Flat, Maple, Looking Glass, Red Cedar, and Thornapple. Copy and paste the code into the HTML of your site. In 1835 the Missouri Legislature declared it a navigable stream to the Iowa line, although steamboat traffic never extended much further than Chillicothe. Common causes of elevated levels of E.coli are unfiltered stormwater runoff into storm drains from agricultural fields and pastures, as well as human sources from septic failures. The Grand River Basin has more than 1,000 third order or higher streams. Grand River Watershed Map. The Lower Grand River Watershed covers the lower portion of the Grand River that drains into Lake Michigan from Ionia County. Map of the Los Angeles River Watershed from 2014. West Michigan understands the importance of education regarding the positive economic impact of agribusiness and the need for local business and government leaders to work together to preserve farmland.

To learn more about stormwater pollution and how to prevent it visit www.lgrow.org/stormwater. This collaboration empowers communities to protect and revitalize the watershed. The settlers sent messengers south to Randolph and Macon counties asking for help.

Rainscaping practices include rain barrels to collect stormwater from rooftop runoff, rain gardens that collect, filter and store runoff, curb cuts that divert runoff from streets to rain gardens, and more. Pre-settlement vegetation mapping project (Karrow, T. and Suffling, R. University of Waterloo Special Collections and Archives: Story Map, Waterloo: Population change from 1867 - 2017, Guides for using Geospatial Centre resources, Finding Facts: Exploring Historical Kitchener, Globe Trotting: The World at Our Fingertips. Our main campus is situated on the Haldimand Tract, the land promised to the Six Nations that includes six miles on each side of the Grand River.

These practices lead to vital community features, such as public parks, forests, rivers, wetlands, and lakes. North Park Elementary students painting rain barrels at the GLRI Rain Barrel Workshop May 2017. Patrons may use the GIS and image processing software in the library to view and manipulate the data.