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Fillmore SWCD

Fillmore SWCD

Promoting Natural Resource Stewardship

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State Cost Share

The Fillmore SWCD annually receives cost-share funds from the Minnesota Board of Water and Soil Resources to assist landowners with implementation of erosion control practices.

State Cost Share

Eligible practices include grassed waterways, terraces, water and sediment control basins, grade stabilization structures, diversions, and contour strip cropping.  Farmstead windbreaks are no longer an eligible practice in Fillmore County. 

Assistance Available – The SWCD is able to cost-share 75% of the total cost not to exceed $6,000 cost share for the eligible practice.  The SWCD will provide technical assistance with the survey and design and assist with the implementation of the erosion control practice.

Criteria for Assistance – There must be a current erosion control problem and the proposed practice must treat the existing erosion problem.  The practice to be installed must meet SWCD standards and specifications.  Cost share is authorized where at least 75% of the contributing watershed controlled by the land occupier has the appropriate cultural, management, or structural practices in place (or scheduled to be installed) to stabilize sources of sediment and reduce surface water runoff.

Ineligible For Cost-Share – Landowners and land occupiers are ineligible for cost share on work that is started or completed prior to cost-share contract approval by the district board.

For more information, contact Doug Keene at 507-765-3878 ext. 108 or email doug.keene@fillmoreswcd.org.

State Cost Share Reports

Calendar Year 2014

  • Feedlot Water Quality Management State Cost Share Grant for FY2014

Calendar Year 2012

  • BWSR State Cost Share Grant for FY2010
  • BWSR State Cost Share Grant for FY2011
  • BWSR State Cost Share Grant for FY2012
  • BWSR State Cost Share Grant for FY2013

Calendar Year 2011

  • BWSR State Cost Share Grant for FY2010
  • BWSR State Cost Share Grant for FY2011
  • BWSR State Cost Share Grant for FY2012

Calendar Year 2010

  • BWSR FY2010 State Cost Share Grant
  • BWSR FY2010 State Cost Share Fund Report

State and Federal Programs

Conservation Reserve Program (CRP)

CRP is a land conservation program administered by the Farm Service Agency (FSA)
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Environmental Quality Incentive Program (EQIP)

Fillmore SWCD in partnership with the local USDA-Natural Resources Conservation Service annually conducts an Environmental Quality Incentive Program (EQIP) Local Work Group Meeting.
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Conservation Reserve Enhancement Program (CREP)

MN CREP is a voluntary, federal-state funded natural resource conservation program that uses a science based approach to target environmentally sensitive land in 54 Counties in southern and western Minnesota.
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Minnesota Agricultural Water Quality Certification Program (MAWQCP)

Opportunity for farmers and agricultural landowners to take the lead in implementing conservation practices that protect our water.
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State Cost Share

The Fillmore SWCD annually receives cost-share funds from the Minnesota Board of Water and Soil Resources to assist landowners with implementation of erosion control practices.
Learn More

Root River One Watershed, One Plan (RR 1W1P)

A 10-year planning document aimed at better managing water within a larger watershed planning area
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Root River Field to Stream Partnership

Collects data using edge-of-field and in-stream monitoring on a small watershed scale to characterize water quality in three small watersheds within the Root River watershed.
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Volunteer Nitrate Monitoring (VNMN)

The Volunteer Nitrate Monitoring Network (VNMN) has been an active program in Southeast Minnesota since 2006.
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Reinvest in Minnesota (RIM)

The Reinvest in Minnesota Resources Act was enacted to restore certain marginal and environmental sensitive agricultural land to protect soil and water quality and support fish and wildlife habitat.
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Wetland Conservation Act (WCA)

The wetland Conservation Act is implemented at the local level by the local government unit or “LGU”
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Watershed Pollutant Load Monitoring Network

A network of state and federal agencies, the Metropolitan Council Environmental Services, state colleges and universities, and local partners that collect data on water quality and flow throughout the state.
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