Statewide Irrigation Water Conservation Resource Concerns - FY 2008

Program Information

The State Technical Committee recommended offering ground and surface water conservation funding statewide to provide irrigators outside of the three panhandle counties an opportunity for cost-share assistance to increase system efficiency and provide for water savings. Therefore, a statewide application and funding process (exclusive of the Panhandle Counties) was added in fiscal year 2006 to address the Statewide Irrigation Water Conservation Concern, and will be continued in 2008.   The water conservation and irrigation eligibility requirements of EQIP are as follows:

• The land must have been irrigated two (2) of the five (5) years previous to application for EQIP.
• Conservation measures applied through the EQIP must result in a net water savings to the operating unit.

Eligibility and Application Process

Applications will be accepted on a continuous basis, but only those received by November 1, 2007, will be considered for this initial selection period.  Funding selections will be made on or before December 11, 2007, exclusively from those applications received.

The following documents require Adobe Acrobat or Microsoft Word.

Statewide Irrigation Water Conservation Eligibility Checksheet (DOC; 39 KB)

Statewide Irrigation Water Conservation Concern Ranking Criteria (PDF; 8 KB)

Eligible Practices and Payment Rates

The following document requires Adobe Acrobat.
 
 Statewide EQIP Practice Payment Rates (PDF; 36 KB)

The list of eligible conservation practices for the statewide Irrigation Water Management resource concerns is limited to the following with the same payment rates as the current statewide EQIP Practice Payment Rates.
324 – Deep Tillage
328 – Conservation Crop Rotation
329 – Residue Mgmt., No-till and Strip Till
345 – Residue Mgmt., Mulch Till
346 – Residue Mgmt., Ridge Till
332 – Contour Buffer Strips
340 – Cover Crop
351 – Well Decommissioning
380 – Windbreak/Shelterbelt Establishment
382 – Fence
386 – Field Border
393 – Filter Strip
422 – Hedgerow Planting
430DD – Irrigation Water Conveyance, Pipeline, High-Pressure Underground Plastic
430EE – Irrigation Water Conveyance, Pipeline, Low Pressure, Underground Plastic
441 – Irrigation System, Micro-irrigation
442 – Irrigation System, Sprinkler
449 – Irrigation Water Management
511 – Forage Harvest Management
512 – Pasture and Hay Planting
516 – Pipeline
528 – Prescribed Grazing
533 – Pumping Plant
550 – Range Planting
590 – Nutrient Management
603 – Herbaceous Wind Barriers
612 – Tree/Shrub Establishment
614 – Watering Facility

Contacts

For additional information and assistance, contact your local NRCS Field Service Center.

Last Reviewed/Modified: 05/16/2008

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