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Samples of Practices Funded
 
Providing funds to help improve the
watershed ...
When funds are available, the Hillsdale Water Quality Project provides funds to help landowners install practices
that may help reduce the amount of pollutants entering Hillsdale Lake.
Currently, no funding is alloted for these expenditures. The Project does have
contacts and resources to guide interested parties to agencies who do have
assistance and funding for various practices.
The policies for securing these funds include:
- Financial aid will only be provided for implementing demonstration
projects.
- The maximum amount of aid will not surpass 70 percent of the
project’s actual cost. If another agency or organization provides cost share funds,
the combined amount of outside assistance cannot exceed 90 percent of the combined cost.
- Assistance can be secured for urban and agricultural practices that
have been identified as being beneficial to the watershed.
- Aid will not be provided for permit-mandated practices.
- Applications for aid must be received two weeks prior to the
board’s next meeting. If an application is not received two weeks prior to the
meeting, consideration of the application will be carried over to the next month’s
agenda. Applicants will be notified of the board’s decision within two weeks of the
meeting.
- Each application will be evaluated and rated individually. A minimum
point rating has been established, however, the board may consider extenuating
circumstances.
- Board members may limit the amount of funds allocated to a project in
order to achieve diversity among the types of practices funded.
- Alternative septic systems will only be approved if the
Project
receives a letter from a county sanitarian stating that they support the alternative
system as a way to illustrate the type of system’s effectiveness.
Samples of practices
previously funded
Through June of 1998, the project has helped coordinate the installation of more than
$1 million worth of pollution control practices. The watershed’s district
conservationists play a major role in identifying sites. These projects have included:
- 10 acres of grass buffer strips
- 113 acres of waterways
- 13 grade stabilization structures
- 17 septic system upgrades
- 2 dump site clean ups
- 3 abandoned well pluggings
- 3 wetlands
- 336,240 linear feet of terraces
- 5 livestock waste systems
- 586 acres of seeding cropland to grass
If you have a similar practice you would like to implement, please call the office.
Sites for related demonstration practices are also being sought.
The Project’s volunteers have contributed more than 15,000 hours of their personal
time valued at almost $250,000. In addition to serving on the board of directors,
volunteers oversee three committees. These groups review resource concerns, identify
alternative solutions, establish goals and promote the implementation of pollution control
practices. Volunteers also assist on a less formal basis with office duties and
presentations. Persons willing to offer their assistance should contact the Project
office at (913) 829-9414.
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