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The Agricultural Environmental Enhancement Program was expanded by funds
from DAR for a total project budget of $350,000. They provided funding
to 33 farms to implement water quality improvement projects. There were
three criteria for selecting farms to participate in the funding:
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the farm location
- the existence of a conservation plan, and
- the environmental benefit of the best management practice to be funded.
Priority was placed on protecting ground and surface water supplies. Protecting
other resources such as shellfish beds and trout streams was a second priority.
Whether or not a farmer had a conservation plan was a second criterion.
A farmer qualified if he or she has an updated (within the last five years)
Natural Resources Conservation Service (NRCS) Farm Plan or had completed
the conservation plan worksheets in the On-Farm Strategies for Protecting
Water Resources workbook and sent it to DAR for review.
2000 Projects
| Watershed |
County |
Site City |
Practice |
Funding |
| Buzzards Bay |
Bristol |
Dartmouth |
Heavy Pad Use |
$14,000.00 |
| Cape Cod |
Barnstable |
Marston Mills |
Tailwater recovery pond liner |
$7,400.00 |
| Cape Cod |
Barnstable |
Marston Mills |
Flumes, Irragation equipment, Irrigation pumps |
$15,000.00 |
| Chicopee |
Worcester |
N. Brookfield |
Heavy Use Pads |
$9,651.38 |
| Concord |
Middlesex |
Carlisle |
Flume |
$4,500.00 |
| Connecticut |
Hampshire |
Amherst |
Compost pad |
$20,000.00 |
| Connecticut |
Hampshire |
Leeds |
Fencing |
$2,500.00 |
| Deerfield |
Franklin |
Colrain |
Barnyard management |
$20,000.00 |
| Deerfield |
Franklin |
Colrain |
Barnyard management |
$10,000.00 |
| Deerfield |
Franklin |
Colrain |
Barnyard management |
$10,000.00 |
| French |
Worcester |
Leicester |
Greenhouse recovery water system, pump |
$10,000.00 |
| Housatonic |
Berkshire |
Pittsfield |
Barnyard management |
$13,000.00 |
| Housatonic |
Berkshire |
Great Barrington |
Irrigation pipe, pump & tank |
$4,500.00 |
| Housatonic |
Berkshire |
Grat Barrington |
Fencing |
$5,000.00 |
| Hudson |
Berkshire |
Williamstown |
Roof over manure storage pit |
$7,550.00 |
| Hudson |
Berkshire |
Williamstown |
Fencing |
$3,693.00 |
| Hudson |
Berkshire |
Williamstown |
Manure storage (Slurry Store) |
$20,000.00 |
| Islands |
Barnstable |
West Tisbury |
Fencing, seeding |
$15,000.00 |
| Merrimack |
Middlesex |
Dunstable |
Manure storage |
$20,000.00 |
| Merrimack |
Middlesex |
Chelmsford |
Irrigation (recirculating system in greenhouse) |
$8,200.00 |
| Narragansett Bay |
Bristol |
Rehoboth |
Heavy use pad, manure containment system, seeding |
$7,056.00 |
| Narragansett Bay |
Bristol |
Rehoboth |
Manure pit (precast) & asphalt floor, pump |
$15,300.00 |
| Nashua |
Worcester |
Harvard |
Pesticide mixing pad |
$9,000.00 |
| Nashua |
Worcester |
Westminster |
Barnyard management (headgates, cement pad), fencing |
$15,090.00 |
| Nashua |
Worcester |
Rutland |
Barnyard improvement (gates, cement) |
$20,000.00 |
| Quinnebaug |
Worcester |
Charlton |
Erosion contol (Tree seedlings) |
$1,413.00 |
| South Coastal |
Plymouth |
Duxbury |
Flumes |
$4,350.00 |
| South Coastal |
Bristol |
Pembroke |
Flumes |
$5,000.00 |
| South Coastal |
Plymouth |
Pembroke |
Flumes, pump |
$20,000.00 |
| South Coastal |
Plymouth |
Dartmouth |
Flumes, seeding |
$15,000.00 |
| Westfield |
Hampshire |
Cummington |
Manure management (part of new manure pit) |
$20,000.00 |
| Westfield |
Hampden |
Feeding Hills |
Drip irrigation |
$3,239.72 |
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