-Benjamin Franklin Greetings! I’m Derek Haines, the current Watershed Coordinator for Toronto and Fall River reservoirs. I wanted to introduce myself and my organization to inform you about resources available to everyone within the Toronto and Fall River watersheds.
I work for KAWS, short for Kansas Alliance for Wetlands and Streams. KAWS is a nonprofit group who partnered with the Kansas Department of Health and Environment (KDHE) to help implement their Watershed Restoration And Protection Strategy, better known as WRAPS. The WRAPS program offers outreach, education and cost-share opportunities targeting livestock and row-crop practices impacting water quality. That dense mouthful of an intro boils down to this: I’m here to help improve, maintain and protect the water in Toronto and Fall River reservoirs as well as the streams and rivers that flow into them.
