Codurus Creek receives $12,000 in conservation funding
BY JOYCE BUPP
Staff Correspondent
YORK - York County’s South
0 Branch watershed of the Codorus
Creek has the dubious honor of
being selected one of the state’s top
ten erosion-prone areas.
The watershed’s flooding and
washproblems have garnered state
interest in the creek’s drainage
area, in the form of a $12,000
allottment from the state ASCS
Pennsylvania’s #1 Agri-Business Bank
American Bank has been committed to helping
fanners since the turn of the century. Because of
our close association, we’re making a special limited
4-week offer of a fixed-rate Crop Builder Loan. This
loan can be used to finance the growing of field crops
for later sale or for use on the farm as feed.
The advantages of our Crop Builder Loan are
many. Once your loan has been approved, you’ll be
assured of getting the money you need, when you
need it And since the rate is fixed, you won’t have
committee, to be used toward
erosion control measures.
However, that' amount is
nowhere near the estimated
|167,000 cost that a statewide Soil
Conservation Service study says is
needed to do a thorough erosion
control on the flood-prone South
Branch.
“We hope the project will attract
additional funding,” says
Peggyann Carnill, head of the
Commitment to fanners. Its the American Bank advantage.
American Bank and Trust Co. of Pa. with offices in Berks, Chester, Lancaster, Lebanon, Lehigh, Montgomeiy and Schuylkill Counties.
A mere drop-in-the-biicket f.«hw,M*r<. y .Win, iM2-«3s
York Agricultural Stabilization
and Conservation Service.
An estimated 375 farms are
included in the total 44,000 acres of
the watershed, which runs south
and west of Interstate 83. Water
from the springs in the rolling hills
and creek valleys feed into the
water supplies of the York Water
Company, with its approximately
100,000 customers in York City and
surrounding urban areas.
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Bank
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Several objectives are listed as
goals for the erosion-control
project including increased overall
farm income due to reduced soil
losses within the watershed crop
land. Non-point pollution would be
reduced to more permissable
levels, water quality and ground
water levels would be improved,
and the area would become a
prime conservation example.
Funds are being handled through
the York County ASCS offices.
to worry about the volatility of floating interest rates.
This will help you in determining the cost of
producing a crop and will reduce your risk in the
crop investment
the Crop Builder Loan is available to all farmers
who are eligible. You don’t presently have to be an
American Bank customer. 1b take advantage of this
offer, in Lancaster and Lebanon counties contact Bob
Zook at (717) 295-8577. In all other counties, contact
Gene Richard or Bill Hughes at (215) 375-5993.
Farmers from within the South
Branch Codorus watershed will be
invited in the near future to apply
for up to 50 to 80 percent of the
costs of runoff-control im
provements such as diversion
terraces and manure bolding pits,
with a total fund limit per farm of
$3,500.
A similar study is now underway
for the watershed area of the
Conewago Creek in northern York
County.
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