Kentucky NRCS Watershed ProgramTable of Contents
Funds are made available through the floodplain easement component of the Emergency Watershed Protection Program (EWPP-FPE). The 11 states currently identified for funding include: Arkansas, Illinois, Iowa, Louisiana, Minnesota, Missouri, Nebraska, North Carolina, South Dakota, Texas and ...
Planning the design, planting and management of stream buffers that both protect water quality in the Connecticut River watershed and provide high quality habitat for pollinators. Collaborating with partners and pasture managers to develop management systems that sustain livestock and increase fora...
Never Too 'Dam' Old: 80 years of Dam Research by the Agricultural Research Service in Support of the USDA Small Watershed Program and Dam Rehabilitation The Watershed Rehabilitation Amendments to the Watershed Protection and Flood Prevention Act (Public Law 83-566) was passed by Congress in 2000...
A Geospatial Tool for Wetland Prioritization at the Watershed Scale We developed four functions to estimate 1) flood storage, 2) late season flow, 3) sediment retention and 4) temperature control in four pilot watersheds in Oregon (Tualatin, Coquille, Upper Grande Ronde and Sprague). These wate...
The first meeting occurred in June with discussions about data sites, optimization of network, watershed assessment, snowmelt timing runoff products, meta-data, and collaboration of research and implementation of work. Meta-data have also been requested by other agencies and is needed by climatic ...
Through the USDA Watershed Programs, the NRCS, working with local project sponsors, has constructed more than 11,400 dams across the United States. Many of these dams are now reaching the end of their 50-year design life. Rehabilitation of these dams will ensure they remain safe and continue...
The EAP team members consisted of three state dam safety officials (MT, MD, KY), three federal agencies (Bureau of Reclamation, Fish and Wildlife Service, NRCS), ASDSO staff, and a representative from the National Watershed Coalition (NWC). ASDSO staff solicited comments and suggestions f...
Sixty-five percent of the funding for the projects was provided through the NRCS Watershed Rehabilitation Program by the American Recovery Reinvestment Act (ARRA) of 2009. The State of Georgia provided the remaining thirty-five percent cost share through the sale of State backed bonds. The goal ...
Many were designed in the 1960's when the SCS was literally building a watershed dam a day through out the decade.Reinforced concrete design at the time was by the working stress design method (WSD) as detailed in the American Concrete Institute (AC!) codes of the day and used by SCS ...