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Home Landscaping Practices to Protect Water Quality

Posted on Wednesday, April 28, 2010 by admin in Wild Flowers
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By The Virginia Cooperative Extension

In Virginia, we rely on reservoir systems, wells, and other sources for our freshwater. In recent years, our previously plentiful clean water supplies have been threatened not only by overuse, but also by contamination. Pollutants are carried down with water soaking through the soil to the water table. Runoff (water that does not soak into the ground) flows over the surface, often taking soil and polluting chemicals with it into lakes and streams.