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Soft Maple/Hay Creek Priority
Watershed Program
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Introduction
The Soft Maple and Hay Creek Priority Watershed Project plan assesses the nonpoint sources of pollution in the Soft Maple and Hay Creek Watershed and guides the implementation of nonpoint source control measures. These control measures are needed to meet specific water resource objectives for the streams, lakes and groundwater
with in the Soft maple and Hay Creek Watersheds. The primary objective of the project is to rehabilitate degraded perennial streams caused by
nonpoint sources, and protect the existing high quality streams
in the watershed.
Areas within the watershed in need of restoration are being affected by polluted runoff from barnyards, streambanks, roadway construction and maintenance, forest roads, and skid trails, cropland, gullies, and off-road vehicle use. By
combining surface water restoration and protection management programs, the Soft maple and Hay Creek Priority Watershed Project will attempt to address all relevant sources of nonpoint source pollution.
General Characteristics
The soft Maple and Hay Creek Watershed drains 175 square miles (112,000 acres) of land in northwestern Rusk County. The watershed is part of the Upper Chippewa River Basin.
Map of Soft maple and Hay Creek Priority Watershed
Practice and Rates for Cost-Sharing
Maximum Rates
Erosion Control Practices:
- Agricultural sediment basins - 70%
- Contour farming - 50% or $9/acre one-time payment
- Contour stripcropping - 50% or $13.50/acre one-time payment
- Cropland protection cover - 50% or $25/acre/year for up to three years
- Livestock fencing - 50%
- Field diversions - 70%
- Grassed waterways - 70%
- High residue management - 50% or $18.50/acre for up to six years
- Intensive grazing management - 50%*
- Terraces - 70%
Manure Management Practices
- Animal lot abandonment or relocation - 70%
- Barnyard runoff management - 70%
- Cattle mounds - 70%
- Manure storage abandonment - 70%
- Manure storage facilities - 70% of the first $20,000**
- Milk center waste control - 70%
- Nutrient and pesticide management - 50% up to three years
- Roofs for barnyard/manure storage - 70%
Other Practice
- Critical Area stabilization - 70%
- Easements - up yo 100%
- Grade stabilization structures - 70%
- Pesticide spill control facilities - 70%
- Shoreline buffers - 70%
- Shoreline/steambank protection - 70%
- Well abandonment - 70%
- Wetland restoration - 70%
Under some circumstances, practices not included on this list may be eligible for cost-sharing. Check with your watershed manager for more details
* - If watering system used, up to $2,000 per system
** - 50% of remaining eligible costs up to $35,000
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