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Dufferin

Financial assistance may be available to qualified landowners in Dufferin 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 Dufferin County.

How to apply

Contact the Rural Water Quality Program staff at 519-621-2763 x2242 or ruralwater@grandriver.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.

Grant Rates

Project Categories

Grant Rates

Clean water diversion

50 per cent up to $3,000

Exclusion fencing

70 - 100 per cent up to $5,000

Cover crops

Performance incentive of $60 per acre for up to $2,400

Erosion control structures

50 per cent up to $5,000

Nutrient management plans

75 - 100 per cent up to $2,000

Crop nutrient plans

75 per cent up to $2,000

Machinery crossing improvements

50 per cent up to $3,000

Tree planting and Fragile land retirement

75 per cent up to $5,000

Forest Management

50 per cent up to $2,000

Natural Area Restoration

50 per cent up to $5,000

Well decommissioning

100 per cent up to $1,500

Wellhead protection

80 per cent up to $1,000

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