The State Cost-Share Program
Established in 1977 and is administered locally by the Todd Soil and Water Conservation District. The State Cost-Share Program provides financial assistance to landowners for the installation of soil and water conservation practices. The practices are designed for an effective life of not less than ten years and meet one of the following objectives:
- Control Nutrient runoff
- Stabilize critical eroding areas
- Divert runoff to protect and improve water quality
- Reduce wind erosion
- Control gully, rill, or sheet erosion
- Protect shoreland from erosion
- Control storm water runoff
- Protect surface water and groundwater quality
The State Cost-Share Program is a program that provides grants to Soil and Water Conservation Districts. With these grants, SWCD’s provide technical and financial assistance to local landowners/occupiers to help with the cost of conservation practices. This program may provide up to 75% of the total cost of a conservation practice. The Board of Water and Soil Resources has several conservation practices that are eligible for this program. The local SWCD’s select and assist with projects, which are identified as having high priority water quality and erosion problems. For more information contact the Todd County SWCD.
The SWCD provides technical assistance to the agricultural landowners by:
- Conducting a site investigation with the landowner
- Working with the landowner to determine the best management practice (BMP) for the given situation
- Surveying and designing the project
- Producing a rough cost estimate
- Providing the landowner with a designed plan for submission of bids
- Performing a pre-construction conference with the contractor and landowner
- Supervising construction
- Certifying completion of the project
Eligible Conservation Practices:
- Critical Area Planting
- Diversions
- Field Windbreaks (50%)
- Grass Waterway
- Livestock Waste Management
- Filter Strips
- Sediment Basins
- Shoreland Plantings, Shoreland Restoration (50%)
- Streambank, Roadside Protections
- Terraces
- Unused Well Sealing (50%)
- Forestry Conservation Practice
