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firmer will be cited for soil
erosion if he is following a
plan prepared by SCS. So if a
farmer wants to be ab
solutely certain that he’ll be
exempted from the penalty
provisions of the Clean
Streams Law, then he should
get an SCS plan,” Martin
said.
“But, it is a fact that many
farmers without plans are
doing excellent jobs of
controlling erosion. They’ve
seen how others have
stopped erosion and they’ve
done the job without any help
from SCS. If they continue to
do a good job, they’ll never
hear from DER, and they’ll
never have to worry.”
Martin pointed out that
SCS couldn’t possibly have
prepared plans for all
Pennsylvania farms by 1977.
He said that in Penn
sylvania’s 66 Conservation
Districts, some 39,800 plans
have been written. But, he
said, close to 37,000 more
plans are needed. Of that
number, some 25,000 are new
agricultural plans, nearly
1000 are needed on state
game lands, and some 10,700
are old farm plans which
need to be revised.
“The Conservation
Districts are doing a good
job of identifying needs and
setting priorities,” Martin
said, “but no matter how
well they do their job, we in
SCS just don’t have the
people to handle the
workload entailed by a 1977
deadline.”
“The districts are trying to
reach every fanner in the
state. But there will always
be some landowners who will
never ask for assistance. A
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never ask for assistance.
And in Pennsylvania, we
of the farmers will never
have anything at all to do
with a government
program.”
We asked Martin to ex
pand a bit on the role of
Conservation Districts.
Conservation Districts, he
said, were established in
Pennsylvania by Act 217.
They are legal subdivisions
of the state government,
related to DER in much the
same way that local school
districts are related to the
Pennsylvania Department of
Education. They were
established to carry out
conservation programs on a
county-wide basis. They
identify conservation needs
for their counties, plan work
programs for the year and
set the priorities which will
guide the work of SCS
technicians and con
servationists.
In addition to SCS, the
conservation district can call
on county agents, the
Agricultural Stabilization
and Conservation Service,
Pennsylvania Bureau of
Forestry, the Pennsylvania
Game Commission and
government agencies for
assistance in dealing with
the problems of both farm
and non-farm conservation
cooperators.
“For this year,” Martin,
noted, “most conservation
districts in Pennsylvania
have adopted resolutions
stating that farm plans are
to be given top priority.”
But haven’t there been
significant increases in the
number of requests from
municipalities and
developers, we asked. How
well do farmer requests
stack up against requests
from developers who might
have millions tied up in their
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projects and who don't want
to wait any longer than they
have to? Don’t the districts
get a lot of political pressure
to move faster on requests
from developers and
municipalities?
“It is a problem,” Martin
replied. “We have to
recognize that the districts
are responsible for total
resource management in
their counties, and they do
have an obligation to provide
this kind of urban assistance.
And I don’t see any time
when we’ll end that
assistance.
“But SCS is supposed to
simply review urban plans
for erosion control
adequacy. We’re not sup
posed to actually develop the
plans. In some cases the
districts were not only
reviewing plans, they were
actually replanning whole
projects. And, naturally,
when they were doing that,
they couldn’t be working on
farm plans.
“This wouldn’t happen if
the developers could call on
adequately trained sediment
control planners outside
SCS. Some districts, like
Chester County, have
developed training
programs to teach civil
engineers how to draw up
plans for urban projects. In
those districts, SCS people
are now spending less time
on urban plans because the
plans that do come in are
better. They don’t need to be
redone as often.”
Why not run a similar
program to train outside
people how to develop
conservation plans for
farms?
“In urban projects,”
Martin said, “We’re dealing
mainly with structural
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control measures. It takes
some training, but not a lot,
to know where to put a silt
basin or an energy dissipator
or some other structure t(
slow water down enough t
drop whatever silt is bein>
carried from, for example, <
housing development.
“Farm conservation
planning is a much mor:
complex subject. The SC<
planner must considet
structural measures. But h.
also has to take into con
sideration soil types, slopes,
the kind and amount oi
tillage on a particular farm,
the cropping pattern, how
much grazing is required
even the farmer’s
management ability.
“We figure that it takes us
two years to train an in
dividu J just out of college
before he’s ready to tackle
farm plans. We could train
others to do farm plans, but
we’d have to recognize that
this would be a long term
answer to farm conservation
planning. It couldn’t be done
overnight.”
“Another thing you’ve got
to realize is that the farm
conservation planning job
will never be done. When a
new owner takes over a farm
that’s been planned, chances
are he’ll need a new plan to
suit the way he farms. Or a
farmer might change his
program and need a new
plan.
“Our agency - SCS - was
and is set up to handle farm
conservation planning. And
that’s where I think we
should continue to spend
most of our time,” Martin
concluded.
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