Soil Preservation Takes Root with Help from Volunteer Operators

A wide variety of trees beautify the landscape and put the brakes on stream bank erosion at a Missouri clean-water plant.
Soil Preservation Takes Root with Help from Volunteer Operators
Tree plantings are designed to curtail erosion on the bank of the Cinque Hommes Creek.

Operators and staff of the 1.8 mgd Perryville (Missouri) Wastewater Treatment Facility planted more than 1,400 trees last spring to halt erosion along the banks of the Cinque Hommes Creek, which passes in front of the plant and is its receiving water.

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