9 Reasons to use Native Plants on your Floating Island
1. Biodiversity You can choose different plants on your floating island that are not growing on the shoreline. Many plants cannot grow well on the shoreline due to droughts or flooding as the water levels change. 2. Healthier Plants grow on Floating Wetlands Native plants on islands often grow taller and healthier than their companions along the shoreline because they … Read More
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Floating Islands in Iowa
14 new floating islands to be launched for the Bee Branch Creek Restoration Project in Dubuque, Iowa. There have been over 7,000 BioHaven® floating wetland islands installed all over the world to improve water quality and create habitat. A floating island was added to Mill Creek Park in Iowa in 2016. “The purpose of the island structure is to improve … Read More
Start Local to Improve Stormwater
Floating Islands, also called floating treatment wetlands (FTW’s), are ideal for improving water quality and habitat in stormwater ponds. Stormwater ponds are artificial ponds designed to manage rain and snowmelt runoff. Why is storm water a problem Hard surfaces such as driveways, sidewalks, and roads do not allow water to naturally soak into the ground. The large volume of runoff either … Read More
How BioHaven Floating Islands were Invented
Today BioHaven® floating islands can be found all over the world. But what was the start of this successful idea? A graduate of University of Wisconsin, Madison, Bruce Kania led the team that created the islands. He thought of Madison as an urban think tank and it helped him foster many of his ideas. While attending the university, he founded … Read More
Man-made islands to cleanse pollutants from pond
MILWAUKEE NEWS May 25, 2016 By Don Behm of the Journal Sentinel They look like rafts that might have been launched by children intending to float away the summer. But the large rafts towed onto an Oak Creek storm-water pond this week are the aquatic equivalent of a Roomba, the vacuum-cleaning robot that works on its own. Three artificial islands, loaded with native wetland plants, … Read More