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Emmons County

Soil Conservation

“Helping People Help the Land”

BEAVER CREEK WATERSHED PROJECT

           The Beaver Creek Watershed Project was started in July 1997, to add extra cost-share funds to those already available from EQIP, in order to install more practices to improve water quality in the Beaver Creek Watershed. Since this watershed has been identified on the EPA’s TMDL list, we were given the opportunity, through an EPA grant, to use cost-share to help producers install such practices. These practices would decrease the non-point source pollution, which, here, comes almost exclusively from agriculture land. The overall intent, then, was to give us the opportunity to bring water quality back up to where the designated uses (ag, drinking water, aquatic life, and recreation) are no longer threatened.

         However, such projects are not designed to be permanent. We have received a couple of extensions, the latest of which taking our project’s ending date to June 30, 2010. This is a final date. At that point,  all unused funds we have will go back to the EPA. We will continue to provide as much assistance as we can, both financially and technically. But with each contract requiring a minimum of 2 years to be completed, we strongly suggest that if you wish to utilize our assistance, you do so by mid-summer of 2008. After that, your cost-share options will be limited to EQIP.