National Water Quality Initiative - Wisconsin

The USDA's National Water Quality Initiative is committed to improving impaired waterways throughout the nation.  Three watersheds have been selected in Wisconsin. USDA’s Natural Resources Conservation Service (NRCS) will manage the initiative by making funds available to farmers and forest landowners in the selected watersheds to begin needed conservation practices to reduce sediment and nutrients entering the waterway.

NWQI Wisconsin Announcement, May, 2012

Map of Wisconsin Watersheds for NWQI, 2012  (765 kb, jpeg)

NWQI Wisconsin Factsheet - (660 kb, pdf)


 

Wisconsin Watersheds in NWQI        Apply by June 15, 2012                  

• Ward Creek-Little Sugar River in Dane and Green Counties - Watershed description and  map

• Big Green Lake in Green Lake County  - Watershed description and  map

• Lower Waumandee Creek in Buffalo County   -  Watershed description and  map
   

NWQI Program Information for Applications and Ranking in Wisconsin

• Plan of Operations and Process for NWQI in Wisconsin  (docx, 24 kb)

• Eligible practices and payment rates  (xlsx, 17 kb),  Conservation Activity Plan rates (35 kb, xlsx)

• Screening Worksheet for Eligibility (84 kb, pdf)

• Application Ranking Summary for Ward Creek-Little Sugar River, Dane and Green Counties (10 kb, pdf)

• Application Ranking Summary for Big Green Lake in Green Lake County  (10 kb, pdf)

• Application Ranking Summary for Waumandee Creek in Buffalo County   (10 kb, pdf)
  
  

< Back to Programs