Helping Put Conservation on the LandScape

Hawk Creek Watershed Project

 

Alternative Intakes

(Rock, Dense Pattern Tile, Hickenbottom)

Hawk Creek will cost-share up to 75% not to exceed $500/intake.

 

Rock or Blind Intake

This design involves digging a trench, placing drainage tile in the bottom, and filling the trench with small rock.  The advantage of this system is that it can be farmable.

 

Pattern Tile with Open Intake Removed

This design involves the installation of subsurface drainage pipes in a very tight pattern or coiled in a small area in the middle of a wet spot.

 

Hickenbottom Intake

This technique involves replacing an open intake with a perforated riser.

 

Buffer Strip Incentives                       

Buffers are areas or strips of vegetation, designed to intercept pollutants.  Properly placed buffers on the landscape can effectively minimize movement of soil, nutrients and chemicals from farm fields, they can also enhance wildlife habitat.

 

Hawk Creek offers $100 for 10 year contact or $150 for 15 year contract.

In the event that a perpetual conservation easement is placed on a buffer, an additional incentive of $500/acre will be paid to the landowner.

 

Ditch bank Side Inlets

A structure used to control the grade and head

cutting primarily ditch banks.

 

 

Sediment Basins                 

A basin constructed to collect and store debris or

sediment.

 

 

Best Management Practices

Hawk Creek Watershed Project offers a variety of conservation practices that are eligible for cost-share assistance.

Other projects that we cost-share on include but are not limited to:

 

Ag-waste (feedlot upgrades)

Grassed Waterways

Livestock exclusions

Rain Gardens

Retention Ponds

Terraces

Wetland Restorations

Perpetual Buffer Incentive

 

Other projects can be considered, just call our office at 320-523-3666 or your local NRCS/SWCD office

Hawk Creek Watershed Project also has a Septic Loan Program that offers funds at 3% for 10 years for a septic system upgrade or installation on existing homes.

Contact your local County Environmental Offices

 

Chippewa County 320-269-6231

Kandiyohi County 320-231-6229

Renville County 320-523-3706