STATE COST SHARE PROGRAM

Through the State Cost-Share Program, landowners or occupiers can request financial and technical assistance from the Morrison SWCD to implement
a wide variety of state-approved conservation practices. The program, which was originally approved by the Minnesota Legislature in 1977, provides up to
75 percent of the total eligible costs of a practice.

Grant funds are available annually to SWCDs at the beginning of the state’s fiscal year. The projects are selected by local SWCDs that identify conservation practices
which help 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 shore land from erosion; control storm water runoff; or protect surface water and ground water quality.

 

Eligible Projects:


                      The following Conservation Practices have been 
                       approved by the Morrison SWCD…

 

Critical Area Stabilization

  • Diversions
  • Field Windbreaks
  • Shelterbelts
  • Grassed Waterway
  • Wastewater and Feedlot Runoff Control
  • Filter Strips
  • Sediment Basins
  • Streambank, Shoreland, and Roadside Protection
  • Stripcropping
  • Terraces
  • Unused Well Sealing – 50% Cost Share

 

All conservation practices and sites must meet certain eligibility requirements.
To apply for cost share or for questions or more information on the State Cost share Program, stop and visit or call the Morrison Soil and Water Conservation District office.

 

CRITICAL AREA PLANTING –
Establishing permanent vegetation on sites that have or are expected to have high erosion rates, and on sites that have physical, chemical, or biological conditions that prevent the establishment of vegetation with normal planting practices.

 

DIVERSION -
A channel constructed across the slope with a supporting ridge on the lower side.

 

FIELD WINDBREAK ESTABLISHMENT/RENOVATION –
A planting of single or multiple rows of trees an/or shrubs to protect an area from the prevailing winds.  Also includes management activities to enhance the functioning of existing, previously planted windbreaks. 

 

SHELTERBELT PLANTING/RENOVATION –
Planting single or multiple rows of trees and/or shrubs around buildings and homesteads to provide protection from wind and snow. 

 

GRASSED WATERWAY –
A natural or constructed channel with permanent suitable vegetation, which serves to transport runoff from fields and other areas with little erosion and soil loss.

 

WASTEWATER/FEEDLOT RUNOFF CONTROL -
The application of eligible conservation practice components to improve water quality associated with livestock wastewater and runoff.  The construction of waste storage basins, stacking slabs and filterstrips.

 

FILTERSTRIP -
An area of permanent vegetation established between cropland, grazing land, or other disturbed areas and sensitive areas such as lakes, streams or wetlands, to reduce runoff and prevent contaminants from entering sensitive areas.

 

SEDIMENT BASINS–
A basin, pond or structure designed and constructed to collect and hold sediment or debris and  safely release water to a stable outlet.

 

STREAMBANK, SHORELAND & ROADSIDE PROTECTION –
Using vegetation and/or engineered structures to stabilize and protect stream banks, lakeshore and other water channels from erosion and scour.

 

STRIPCROPPING -
Growing row crops, forages, small grains, or fallow in a systematic arrangement of equal width strips on or near the contour of the field slope. A strip of grass or grass/legume or small grain is alternated with a strip of tilled annual crop or fallow.

 

TERRACES -
An earth embankment, or a combination ridge and channel constructed across the field slope.

 

UNUSED WELL SEALING -
The sealing and permanent closure of a water well no longer in use. Minnesota Rules Chapter 4725 specifies the requirements for sealing unused wells in Minnesota.