> Subject: Water show on "The Iowa Journal" tonight
> Date: Thursday, February 5, 2009, 2:30 PM
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> FOR INFORMATION CONTACT:
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> Jennifer Glover Konfrst, 515-242-3146
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> Flood Control through Conservation:
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> On the Thursday, February 5 edition
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> of The Iowa Journal
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> (Johnston, Iowa) - Thursday's edition of The Iowa
> Journal will explore what
> can be done to control future floods. This episode will air
> Thursday,
> February 5 at 8 p.m. on statewide Iowa Public Television.
> It will be
> rebroadcast on Friday, February 6 at 6:30 p.m. on IPTV. The
> program will
> also be available online at Iptv.org.
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> Are dams and levees the answer to help control
> future floods? Or
> could excessive flooding be at least partially controlled
> by increasing
> conservation efforts on the land? Could strategically
> placed wetlands, and
> other conservation efforts, help absorb flood waters and
> delay some of the
> water from flowing into rivers and communities downstream?
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> To see an example of how wetlands work, The Iowa
> Journal visited the
> Port Louisa National Wildlife Refuge in southeast Iowa,
> where farmers
> enrolled 2,700 acres of flooded farm fields into the
> Emergency Wetlands
> Reserve Program following the 1993 floods. During the 2008
> floods, the
> refuge manager said the land held six to 15 feet of water.
> The Iowa Journal
> also visited the towns of Wapello and Cedar Rapids to learn
> of the
> communities' long-range flood control plans.
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> In the studio to discuss long-term flood management
> are Marty Adkins
> with the USDA's Natural Resources Conservation Service,
> which administers a
> number of conservation programs for landowners, and Jack
> Riessen of the Iowa
> Department of Natural Resources, who works on flood plain
> management for the
> state.
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> For more information about The Iowa Journal, visit
> www.iptv.org/iowajournal or call
> (515) 242-3146.
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