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NRCS Awards Conservation Partnership Grants To Improve Chesapeake Bay Water Quality
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The U.S.D.A. Natural Resources Conservation Service this week awarded $3.5 million in grants for six projects in four states designed to help improve water quality in the Chesapeake Bay.
The Cooperative Conservation Partnership Grants in Pennsylvania were awarded for a $424,000 project in the Wysox Creek Watershed in Bradford County to reduce streambank erosion.
A second $40,000 will support a Chesapeake Bay Foundation Healthy Dairies, Healthy Streams project would implement agricultural gets management practices in dairy farms in the Pennsylvania portion of the Bay watershed restoring about 12 miles of riparian buffers and treating animal concentrations areas and barnyards.
“We believe that a thriving and sustainable agricultural sector is critical to restoring the Chesapeake Bay,” said NRCS Chief Dave White. “The unique partnership available through CCPI provides us an opportunity to show that a voluntary, site-specific approach to conservation can work very successfully in this watershed.”
CCPI-CBW funding falls under the umbrella of the Chesapeake Bay Watershed Initiative
For more information, visit the NRCS Chesapeake Bay Initiative webpage.
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6/20/2011 |
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