Managing Nutrients, Trash & Litter Makes For Cleaner Waterways Fertilize With Care Over-application of nutrients not only may impair plant growth, it can also contaminate groundwater by leaching through the soil...
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Land to Lake Magazine—Spring 2025
This issue features information about Conservation Efforts in Defiance, including: See the digital magazine and browse previous issues at Land to Lake Magazine – Land to Lake These quality print magazines...
RiverFest ’26 – Saturday, June 27, 2026
Don’t miss what we have planned for RiverFest 2026! Join our mailing list for updates! This FREE family-friendly community event offers a variety of unique educational family experiences. RiverFest is held...
DRA: 2026 Year In Review
The Defiance Research Alliance (DRA) 2025 Year-In-Review was published as an insert in the Spring 2026 issue of Land to Lake magazine. Read the review below, or view the entire magazine...
ALUS Defiance
Formed in 2024 and launched in early 2025, ALUS Defiance is a farmer-led program focused on creating and managing new natural areas and providing ecosystem services tailored to local farms. Its...
East River Drive Wetland
Turning To The Past To Restore The Future: Restoring A Forested Floodplain BRINGING BACK THE FLOODPLAINOnce part of the Great Black Swamp, the Maumee River floodplain originally contained many thriving forested...
Public Projects Map
The City of Defiance is continually working to protect our source water and promote conservation in the Maumee Watershed. This map illustrates locations for more than a dozen public projects designed...
DRA: 2024 Year In Review
The Defiance Research Alliance (DRA) 2024 Year-In-Review was published as an insert in the Spring 2025 issue of Land to Lake magazine. Read the review below, or view the entire magazine...
It Was A Beautiful Day For RiverFest ’25!
Don’t miss what we have planned for RiverFest 2026! Join our mailing list for updates! RiverFest, a FREE family-friendly community event, was held Saturday, June 28, 2025 at Pontiac Park, Defiance....
Land to Lake Magazine—Spring 2025
This issue features information about Conservation Efforts in Defiance, as well as: See the digital magazine and browse previous issues at Land to Lake Magazine – Land to Lake These quality...
Congratulations to the “Smart21”!
The Intelligent Community Forum (ICF) is a global network that highlights communities striving toward connectivity, sustainability, community engagement, innovation, and more! ICF awards 21 communities worldwide for success in these areas...
Local Groups Join LEVSN
Defiance Soil & Water Conservation District, Defiance Research Alliance, and the Upper Maumee Watershed Partnership are joining the Lake Erie Volunteer Science Network (LEVSN) for the 2025 sampling season! LEVSN is...
Defiance Research Alliance: Looking Back at the First Year
2023 was Defiance Research Alliance’s first year. DRA has worked on developing four main parts of its program: research development, education & outreach, council development, and funding development. Over the last year,...
Land to Lake Magazine—Spring 2024
This issue features information about Wetlands in Defiance, as well as: Defiance Research Alliance, New Maumee River Watershed Research Center | Source Water Protection: Ohio EPA Planning Grant | Sustainability in...
Council of the Great Lakes Region
Defiance, Ohio is is working to advance sustainability in the Maumee Watershed in collaboration with CGLR. We are on a mission to foster a new era of economic growth, environmental protection,...
Phosphorus-Optimal Research Wetland
PHOTO CREDIT: BENJAMIN PETERSON, DOCUDRONE AERIAL IMAGERY LLC OCTOBER 5, 2023 LimnoTech, USACE ERDC, GLRI, and the City of Defiance, Ohio, share how a P-Optimal demonstration wetland is being used as...
Watershed Management Plans
We’ve gathered these Watershed Management Plans in one easy-to-use location. Click on the cover image to open the selected document....
Maumee Watershed Research Center Open House
Defiance Research Alliance efforts were celebrated during an open house on Friday, October 6th. The event was attended by various college and public officials and commemorated the establishment of the new...
Land to Lake Magazine—Winter 2023
This issue is packed with information about what we’re doing to protect our water resources: See the digital magazine and browse previous issues at Land to Lake Magazine – Land to...
DRA News—Winter 2023
Collaborative Research for Water Quality FUNDING AWARDDefiance College, in partnership with the City of Defiance, received $500,000 from the federal Department of Education due to Senator Sherrod Brown’s Congressionally Directed Spending...
City of Defiance Storm Water Management Program
Urbanization within our watershed brings and increase of pavement and rooftops, increasing stormwater runoff which has a negative impact on the water quality of Lake Erie and also causes rivers to...
Partnering for Water Quality
The area’s first denitrifying bioreactor is now in full operation in the central part of Defiance County withconstruction taking place in August 2022. The selected site is in Mark Township, in...
Smart Watershed Pilot
With funding from the Great Lakes Observing System (GLOS), the City of Defiance Water Treatment Plant(WTP) has installed water quality sensors to measure nutrients and other key parameters before pumping river...