A2o—Lancaster Farming, Saturday, June 13,1981
USDA funds Lancaster’s Conestoga
Headwaters at $1.93
LANCASTER Lancaster
Conestoga River headwaters is one
of eight sites approved by
Secretary of Agriculture John R.
Block last Friday in which the U.S.
Department of Agriculture will be
combatting agricultural-related
pollution under the Rural Clean
Water Program. The total
nationwide cost of these eight
projects has been estimated at $2O
million.
The voluntary federal program
is designed to control nonpoint
sources of pollution on privately
owned farmland through financial
and technical assistance of the
USDA Soil Conservation Service
and the Agricul ■ al Stabilization
and Conservation Service. Also
assisting in the program will be the
Cooperative Extension Service,
Conservation District, Bureau of
' Forestry, Department of En
vironmental Resources and the
local school districts’ vocational
agriculture departments and
Young Fanner associations.
An amount of $1.93 million has
been set aside for the Conestoga
here in Lancaster County. This is
the first project of its kind to be
undertaken in Pennsylvania.
According to Richard A. Pennay,
acting chariman of the Penn
sylvania State ASC Committee, the
Conestoga was the number one
priority project for the Com
monwealth. He noted that a
previous application for RCWP
funds made last year was not
funded due to the state’s water
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added the state plan still has only
the conditional approval from EPA
granted last July.
The close to $2 million
designated by USDA for the
Conestoga is less than half of the
total projects estimated cost of
$4,853,513. Besides the $1.93 million
in RCWP funds, it has been
estimated the cost to the 400 far
mers with critical conservation
needs on the 16,000 acres of Lan
caster County farmland will
amount to slightly over $2.3
million. An additional $603,000 has
been earmarked for other costs.
The Conestoga watershed is
located in northeastern Lancaster
county, consisting of over 100,000
acres and over 1,200 farms. A
survey of the area, which was
conducted in the preliminary
stages of the application process,
estimated the watershed’s
cropland supported approximately
36,000 acres of com, 7,500 acres of
small grains, 18,000 acres of hay
and forage crops, along with 1,500
acres of tobacco and potatoes.
And, almost all of the farms were
involved in hvestock, poultry,
and/or dairy operations.
The study cited the major water
quality problems in the Conestoga
to be: nitrogen and phosphorus
from manure, pesticides, sediment
from intensive cropping, and high
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In defining what constitutes a
critical nonpoint source pollution
problem, the study identified them
as:
Those farms adjacent to
major streams within the
Conestoga Headwaters Area;
Those farms adjacent to small
tributaries within the watershed;
Livestock farms haring an
animal unit density greater than
1.5 animal units per acre; and
Those farms using high rates
of commercially supplied nutrients
and pesticides on all or most of
their land.
To help solve these nonpoint
source pollution problems, various
conservation measures have been
called for, with the federal
goveramenf footing the bill for 50
to 75 percent of the cost in most
cases. These best management
practices, as they are referred to
by the conservation agency per
sonnel, include: establishing
permanent vegetative cover,
animal waste .management
systems, sediment' basins, strip
cropping, cropland terraces,
diversions, waterways, stream
protection, tree planting, along
with' fertilizer, pesticide and
cropland management.
- Terraces and animal waste
management systems received the
greatest emphasis in the
Conestoga application with close to
$1 million of the requested federal
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practices.
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According to Warren Archibald,
district conservationist for the Soil
Conservation Service in T-anpastpr
County, now that the project has
been given the go ahead and
financial support from
Washington, D.C., the local field
office will begin developing a work
plan. After that, farmers can begin
to file cost-share applications with
Ray Brubaker, county executive
director, for Lancaster ASCS.
When asked what he anticipates
the response of fanners in the
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In winning this event, the
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Conestoga area to be when the
funds become available, which
should be hopefully before the end
of the year, Archibald said,
“There’ll be a certain amount of
people who will be at the door
waiting to sign up, and there’ll be
others we’ll have to convince they
need our help.”
Other states receiving RCWP
funds this year are: Florida,
$1,338,100; Massachusetts,
$553,173; Minnesota $2,018,122,
Nebraska, $1,835,775; Oregon,
$2,011,099; South Dakota,
$1,097,548; and Virginia, $1,889,995
their herd appraised for type on a
regular schedule. To qualify for
this award, the majority of
registered Ayrshires in the herd
must be bred by the owner and
maintain a high level of production
with good type conformation.
The Ayrshire Breeders
Association records and preserves
the parentage of all registered
Ayrshire in this country. In ad
dition to registering over 10,000
Ayrshires each year, the
organization conducts -a wide
range of programs and services to
assist breeders and to promote and
improve the Ayrshifeßreed.
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