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Irrigation Water Management 2009

EQIP Resource Concern - Alabama

Efficient center pivot irrigation system.

Irrigation Water Management is funded through the Environmental Quality Incentives Program (EQIP).  This concern is designed to promote ground and surface water conservation by providing practice 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 - impact sprinklers or impact sprinkler 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 – impact sprinklers or impact sprinkler 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 practice payment based on the type of conversion. The conversion must occur prior to the practice payment.

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

Additional EQIP Resources

 These documents may require Adobe Acrobat.

Practice Payment Schedule 2009 (PDF, 46 KB)
Conservation Program Application and Appendix - NRCS-CPA-1200 (PDF, 35 KB)
     English
     Spanish
Power of Attorney (Form NRCS-CPA-09) (PDF, 70 KB)
Power of Attorney (Form 211 and 211a - FSA and NRCS) (PDF, 368 KB)
Direct Deposit (Form SF-1199a) (PDF, 109 KB)

Posters for field offices to print and display

8x11 (PDF, 634 KB)
11x17 (PDF, 1 MB)

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) 

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

NRCS State Office contact Steve Musser, USDA–NRCS, Assistant State Conservationist for Programs, phone: (334) 887-4503.

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