Haldimand

Financial assistance may be available to qualified landowners in Haldimand County to share the cost of selected best management practices that improve and protect ground and surface water quality. An Environmental Farm Plan is required.

Grant rates under the Rural Water Quality Program may be adjusted if combined with other funding programs for a total grant of 80 per cent to 100 per cent.

The program is funded by Haldimand County.

How to apply

  • Contact the Rural Water Quality Program staff at your local Conservation Authority:
  • Staff will help you plan your project and guide you through the application process.
  • A local review committee will evaluate your project on its potential to improve and protect water quality.
  • After the committee approves your project, the work can begin. You will receive the grant payment once the project is complete and inspected by staff.

Grant Rates

Project categories

Grant Rates

Livestock access restriction to watercourses

75 - 100 per cent up to $5,000. Livestock access restriction materials are eligible for 100 per cent cost share if installed by the landowner.

Erosion control structures

50 per cent up to $5,000

Cover crops

Performance incentive of $20/acre up to 75 acres

Tree planting, fragile land retirement

80 per cent up to $5,000

Living snow fence

100 per cent up to $5,000. Performance incentive of $750/acre for the first year and $700/acre for the fourth year after planting

Well decommissioning

100 per cent up to $1,000

Sediment basin/wetland creation

80 per cent up to $5,000

Soil Testing

75 per cent up to $1,000

Nutrient management plans

75-100 per cent up to $2,000

Crop nutrient plans

75 per cent up to $2,000

Innovative technology

Considered on a project by project basis

Contact Us

Grand River Conservation Authority
400 Clyde Road, PO Box 729
Cambridge, ON
N1R 5W6
Phone: 519-621-2761
Toll Free: 1-866-900-4722
grca@grandriver.ca