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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. 245 or maitland@mvca.on.ca
- Saugeen Valley: 519-364-1255 Ext. 231 or d.lacey@svca.on.ca
- Credit Valley: 437-833-4345 or holly.shipclark@cvc.ca
- Halton: 905-805-4687 or cbowen@hrca.on.ca
- Hamilton: 905-525-2181 Ext. 196 or jstock@conservationhamilton.ca
- 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.
| Project categories | Grant Rate |
|---|---|
| Manure storage and handling systems | 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 facilities | 50 per cent up to $4,000 |
| Exclusion fencing | 75 per cent to 100 per cent up to $10,000 |
| Fuel storage | 50 per cent up to $4,000 |
| Fertilizer and chemical storage and handling | 50 per cent up to $2,500 |
| Erosion control structures (grassed waterways, water & sediment control basins, stream bank stabilization) | 75 per cent up to $15,000 |
| Machinery crossings | 50 per cent up to $5,000 |
| Tree planting (stream buffers, fragile land retirement, field windbreaks) | 80 per cent up to $10,000. 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. |
| Milking centre washwater treatment and disposal | 50 per cent up to $5,000 |
| Living snow fence | 80 - 100 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 |
| Well abandonment | 100 per cent up to $2,500 |
| Crop nutrient plans | 75 per cent up to $2,000 |
| Innovative projects | 50 per cent up to $10,000 |
Wellington County Well Program
Financial assistance may be available to non-farm landowners in Wellington County to protect or improve a safe water supply. Applicants must contact their local conservation authority (see contact information above) to complete an application.
| Project categories | Grant rates |
| Wellhead abandonment | 100 per cent up to $1,500 per well |
| Wellhead protection | 80 per cent up to $1,000 per well |
