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Alabama Ground and Surface Water Conservation Concern

 

Efficient center pivot irrigation system.

The Ground and Surface Water Conservation (GSWC) concern is funded through the Environmental Quality Incentives Program (EQIP).  This concern is designed to promote ground and surface water conservation by providing incentive payments to producers to carry out eligible conservation activities in order to convert irrigation systems and/or enhance irrigation efficiencies.

Applicant qualifications will be determining using the following guidelines:

  1. Assistance through the project must result in a net savings in ground or surface water resources in the agricultural operation of the producer.
  2. Only land that has been irrigated for two of the last five years prior to submitting application is eligible.
  3. The existing irrigation system must be a functional system and meet the following requirements:
    1. center pivot system - sprinklers or nozzles should not have been replaced in the last seven years;
    2. traveling gun system - system is at least five years old;
    3. solid set sprinkler system – sprinklers or nozzles should not have been replaced in the last seven years.
  1. The water conservation system will utilize new components with design and installation certified by a professional engineer registered in Alabama.  The newly installed system will have at least a five-year service life.
  1. Payment will be a one-year incentive payment based on the type of conversion. The conversion must occur prior to the incentive payment.

Contact the local Service Center for further guidelines and details of the program.  

Additional Information

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Posters for field offices to print and display

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Success Stories

Tuskegee Turf Farm Battles Drought with More Efficient Irrigation (PDF), (on-line in html, Alabama Cooperative Farming News, February 2008 (Fay Garner, Public Affairs Assistant, NRCS, Auburn, AL)  (text only) 

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