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Financial assistance may be available to qualified landowners in Wellington 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 up to 100 per cent.
The program is funded by Wellington County.
How to apply
Contact the Rural Water Quality Program staff at your local Conservation Authority.
- Grand River: 519-621-2761 or ruralwater@grandriver.ca.
- Maitland Valley: 519-335-3557 Ext. 236 or maitland@mvca.on.ca
- Saugeen Valley: 519-367-3040 Ext. 235 or j.harbinson@scva.on.ca
- Credit Valley: 1-800-666-5557 Ext. 430 or meastman@creditvalleyca.ca
Conservation specialists will help you plan your project and complete your application.
A committee will evaluate your project on its potential to improve and protect water quality.
Upon approval by the committee, you can proceed with the project. You will receive payment for the project after completion and inspection by staff.
Grant rates
- Manure storage: 50 per cent up to $25,000
- Manure storage decommissioning: 50 per cent up to $3,000
- Clean water diversion: 50 per cent up to $5,000
- Dead stock composting: 50 per cent up to $4,000
- Livestock access restriction: 75 per cent to100 per cent up to $10,000
- Fuel storage/handling: 50 per cent up to $4,000
- Fertilizer and/or chemical handling and storage: 50 per cent up to $2,500
- Erosion control structures (grassed waterways, water & sediment control basins, stream bank stabilization): 75 per cent up to $10,000
- Machinery crossing improvements: 50 per cent up to $5,000
- Tree planting (stream buffers, fragile land retirement, field windbreaks): 75 per cent up to $7,500. Performance incentive of $350/acre per year for three years to a maximum of 10 acres.
- Cover crops: Performance incentive of $60/acre for up to 50 acres.
- Milkhouse waste: 50 per cent up to $5,000
- Living snow fences: 80 per cent to100 per cent up to $5,000. Performance incentive of $500/acre per year for three years to a maximum of 10 acres.
- Natural area restoration and creation: 80 per cent up to $7,500. Performance incentive of $350/acre per year for three years to a maximum of 10 acres.
- Nutrient management plans: 75-100 per cent up to $2,000
- Wellhead protection: 80 per cent up to $2,000
- Wellhead decommissioning: 100 per cent up to $2,500
- Tile drain control structures: 80 per cent up to $7,500
