Floyd River Water Quality Partnership-RCPP 2570
What is RCPP?
The Regional Conservation Partnership Program (RCPP) promotes coordination of NRCS conservation activities with partners that offer value-added contributions to expand our collective ability to address on-farm, watershed, and regional natural resource concerns. Through RCPP, NRCS seeks to co-invest with partners to implement projects that demonstrate innovative solutions to conservation challenges and provide measurable improvements and outcomes tied to the resource concerns they seek to address.
What is RCPP?
The Regional Conservation Partnership Program (RCPP) promotes coordination of NRCS conservation activities with partners that offer value-added contributions to expand our collective ability to address on-farm, watershed, and regional natural resource concerns. Through RCPP, NRCS seeks to co-invest with partners to implement projects that demonstrate innovative solutions to conservation challenges and provide measurable improvements and outcomes tied to the resource concerns they seek to address.
Funding:
Duration: Five years (2021-2026)
Federal Funds: Financial Assistance $2,880,000 Technical Assistance $320,000
Partner Contributions: $3,360,000
Portions of the following Counties:
Cherokee, O’Brien, Osceola, Plymoth, Sioux, and Woodbury. See full map on back.
Eligible Practices
The project establishes an approach for private sector conservation planning support for approved NRCS conservation practices such as:
- Cover Crop
- Residue and Tillage Management, No-Till
- Denitrifying Bioreactor
- Saturated Buffer
- Grade Stabilization
- Wetland Restoration
- Constructed Wetland
For more information about RCPP or other conservation planning and financial assistance opportunities, contact your local NRCS office.