Resources

How to become a project partner

If you are a farmer with land in one of our project watersheds, please get in touch with your local Soil and Water Conservation District (SWCD) office who will be able to guide you through the process of applying for funding!

Shatto Ditch Watershed - Kosciusko County SWCD - 574 267 7445 - www.kosciuskoswcd.org                            
                                                                                                                                    
Kirkpatrick Ditch Watershed - Jasper County SWCD - 219 866 8008 x3 - www.iroquoiswatershed.com                               

Project information to download and share!

​Links
​Videos
Shatto Ditch real-time weather station
Kirkpatrick real-time weather station
Shatto Ditch USGS gauging station
Kirkpatrick Ditch USGS gauging station
One-Page Data Summaries
Two-Stage Ditch Sheet
Shatto Ditch Phosphorus Sheet
Shatto Ditch Nitrogen Sheet
Shatto and Kirkpatrick Soils Sheet
Tile Drain Flow Sheet
Kirkpatrick Ditch Nitrogen Sheet
Kirkpatrick Ditch Phosphorus Sheet
​RCPP Watershed Fact Sheets
Kirkpatrick Ditch RCPP Factsheet
Shatto Ditch RCPP Factsheet
Jasper Co. SWCD Cover Crop Videos
Peer-Reviewed Literature
​Griffiths et al. 2012. Decomposition of maize leaves and grasses in restored agricultural streams. Freshwater Science.
​Roley et al. 2012. Floodplain restoration enhances denitrification and reach-scale nitrogen removal in an agricultural stream. Ecological Applications.
Roley et al. 2012. Hydrologic connectivity increases denitrification in the hyporheic zone and restored floodplains of an agricultural stream​. Geophysical Research.
Roley at el. 2014. The influence of floodplain restoration on whole-stream metabolism in an agricultural stream: insights from a 5-year continuous data set. Freshwater Science.
Mahl et al. 2015. Two-stage ditch floodplains enhance N-removal capacity and reduce turbidity and dissolved P in agricultural streams. Journal of the American Water Resources Association. 
​Davis et al. 2015. The influence of two-stage ditches with constructed floodplains on water column nutrients and sediments in agricultural streams. Journal of the American Water Resources Association.
Roley et al. 2016. ​How cost-effective are cover crops, wetlands, and two-stage
ditches for nitrogen removal in the Mississippi River Basin? Water Resources and Economics.