Stone County Soil and Water Conservation District
Local Projects
Crane Creek AgNPS SALT
(Agricultural Nonpoint Source Special Area Land Treatment)
This project focuses on improving water quality by decreasing sediments, pesticides and nutrients entering waterways in the watershed. The SALT project is approximately 53,060 acres including the counties of Stone, southeast portion of Lawrence and northeast portion of Barry County. There are cost-share practices, as well as incentive practices. These practices are:
CRANE CREEK WATERSHED PRACTICES
RIPARIAN FOREST BUFFER (N391):
- Purpose is to reduce excess surface nutrients and chemicals from runoff into streams and ground water.
- Practice to be applied to permanent or intermittent streams on your property by installing permanent barbed wire fence or electric high-tensile wire fence to exclude livestock from streams.
- Planting trees and shrubs on open areas of the stream bank if necessary.
- Minimum buffer width is 50 ft. from bank. Maximum width from stream to fence is 180 ft.
- Livestock water replacement by drilling a well (max. cost-share $3,500) and installing waterline and tanks can be considered. Also, leaving limited access points to the stream can be considered.
- District cost-share is 75 percent plus a one time incentive payment of $1,000 per excluded acre. Ten year life.
STREAM BANK PROTECTION (WQ10):
- Purpose is to reduce excess surface nutrients and chemicals from runoff into streams and ground water.
- Practice to be applied to permanent or intermittent streams on your property by installation of a permanent barbed wire fence or an electric high-tensile wire fence to exclude livestock from streams.
- Minimum width from stream to fence is 25 ft. and maximum is 150 ft. from both sides of the stream.
- Livestock water replacement by drilling a well (max. cost-share $3,500) and installing waterline and tanks can be considered. Also, leaving limited access points to the stream can be considered.
- Excluded area may be flash grazed for specific three day periods and fence rows can be sprayed for weed control. Chemicals are not eligible for cost-share.
- District cost-share is 75 percent plus a one time incentive payment of $500 per excluded acre. Ten year life.
USE EXCLUSION (N472):
- Purpose is to maintain or improve plant, soil and water quality.
- Installation of permanent barb wire or high-tensile electric fence to exclude livestock from areas where vegetative maintenance, soil condition and water quality need protection and maintain for 10 years.
- District cost-share is 75 percent .
WELL DECOMMISSIONING (N351):
- Purpose is to prevent entry of contaminated surface water to ground water.
- Plug well using gravel and cap with good soil and seed.
- Incentive payment of 100 percent of actual cost or county average cost (which ever is less) with a $400 limit.
- Maintain for 10 years.
STREAM BANK STABLIZATION (C650):
- For use on agricultural land along streams where significant stream bank erosion has occurred.
- Installation of textile fabric, rock and willow trees to secure stream bank as designed by technician.
- Area must be protected from livestock and fire for a period of 10 years.
- District cost-share is 75 percent not to exceed $5,000 per landowner and / or farm.
WASTE UTILIZATION (N633):
- Purpose is to demonstrate environmental and economic advantages of following a nutrient plan.
- Utilize organic nutrients by applying waste according to soil test recommendations and manure or litter analysis.
- Incentive payments $35 per acre, per year for up to three consecutive years. (Not to exceed $5,250 per year, per operator.)
NUTRIENT MANAGEMENT (N590):
- Incentive to encourage new management techniques and technology for applying commercial fertilizer.
- Incentive payments $30 per acre for up to three consecutive years for following a Nutrient Management Plan. (Not to exceed $4,500 per year, per operator.)
PEST MANAGEMENT (N595):
- Assist the landowner or producer (managing rented acreage) in determining proper application of pesticides on pasture and hay land.
- For cost-share, the established plan must include a minimum of a seven month growing season from April 1 to October 31. Applications must be approved before April 1.
- Incentive payments of $15 per acre, per year not to exceed $2,500 per year, per operator.
Stone County Soil and Water Conservation District and USDA are equal opportunity employers and providers.
