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Md. districts set water policies
they’re going to have to come up
with the money to fund the
programs. That is the gist of a
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resolution passed by represen
tatives of Maryland’s 24 soil
conservation districts at their
summer meeting in Ocean city last
week.
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from districts and other agencies
including the U.S. Soil Con
servation Service, Extension
Service, Dept, of Health and
Mental Hygiene, Maryland State
Department of Agriculture, and
Agricultural Stabilization and
Conservation Service.
The effect of inflation and tight
budgets on federal and local soil
and water conservation programs
was a recurring theme throughout
the three-day convention of the
Maryland Association of Soil
Conservation Districts. District
supervisors, who are volunteers,
are worried about accepting ad
ditional responsibility from the
state and federal level without the
necessary funding to go along with
it.
The districts, which receive
funding from the state and
counties and technical support
from the U.S. Soil Conservation
Service, started out in the 1930 s
helping farmers to control erosion
and conserve water. In recent
years, they’ve been given
responsibility for the state’s urban
sediment control, storm water
management, and agricultural
water quality management
programs.
In the resolution passed Friday,
they called on state officials to
come up with more money “if it is
agreed that (these programs) are
of sufficient priority to the state at
this time of declining resources.”
In > a related action, MASCO
members asked their executive
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committee to work with the state
legislature to reintroduce a bill
which would allow the state to
establish a program to share with
landowners the cost of installing
best management practices to
unprove water quality.
Under the state’s agricultural
water quality management
program, districts are en
couraging landowners m critical
areas to voluntarily install con
servation practices to keep
sediment and animal wastes out of
streams. However, animal waste
control measures in particular can
cost from $20,000 to $BO,OOO. As one
supervisor commented, “If the
public wants clean water, they
should help pay for it.’ ’
In resource committee
meetings, MASCD members
discussed issues of common
concern including the benefits of
no-till farming, gypsy moth in
festations in northern Maryland,
plant materials program, Acres
for Wildlife program, revision of
the state’s pond regulations, use of
infra-red photography for surveys,
options for rural sewage disposal,
and the Turner’s Creek Con
servation Park m Kent county.
Alan Musselman, staff member
for the state’s agricultural land
preservation program, appeared
before members to ask then
support. So far, he said, 40,000
acres have been signed up under
preservation districts and
easements have been acquired on
78,000 acres.
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