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| The Canadian government will invest $181,593 to support a project to demonstrate and monitor contoured drainage on a field in southwestern Ontario, the first project in the province to try controlling drainage on a slope with control gates. 
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 A new project in Illinois is changing the look of a field-tiling project from parallel lines to a pitchfork pattern, thus changing the way water flows from a field. The design is being tested along other end-of-field practices, such as saturated buffers, to achieve a 50-percent reduction of nutrient loss.
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 Five southwestern Ontario projects to find ways to keep phosphorus out of the Thames River, one of the biggest contributors of phosphorus to Lake Erie, are getting a boost with $400,000 in federal and provincial cash.
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	|  Continuing education is part of any career – including a drainage contractor’s. Every year in August, Iowa State University runs a three-day farmland subsurface drainage school for a refresher on surveying the land, drainage plans, and dealing with boulders, barriers and runoff concerns. Here’s a recap of what was covered in 2018. 
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