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The Morgan Creek Wetland Project is a 35-acre addition to Morgan Creek Park on the western edge of Cedar Rapids. W2W helped fund the project and served as “seed money” to secure other grant funding for the wetlands project at this popular county park. This network of wetlands captures and cleans water from E Avenue and adjacent neighborhoods.  The wetland cells are foundational to sustainable development, serving storm water management needs, as well as providing critical wildlife and aquatic habitat.

W2W grant money helped Johnson County Conservation with the Kent Park Lake Restoration Project and converted an old cow pasture into a grass and wetlands area which serves as a natural water filtration system for nearby Kent Park Lake. Past studies showed that runoff from the nearby pasture was polluting the popular recreational lake. The newly created wetlands is keeping the lake free of pollutants, so it can remain open for swimming and fishing. Kent Park is a 1,052-acre recreational park. It is considered to be one of the finest county parks in the state with more than 200,000 people visiting each year to camp, hike, fish, and swim.