Disaster Recovery – Emergency Watershed Protection Program

Offers technical and financial assistance to help local communities relieve imminent threats to life and property caused by natural disasters that impair a watershed. Planning, design, and construction oversight are part of this program. Eligible activities include: removing debris from stream channels, road culverts and bridges;reshaping and protecting eroded streambanks;correcting damaged or destroyed drainage facilities;establishing vegetative cover on critically eroding lands;repairing levees and structures; repairing certain conservation practices; andpurchasing EWP Buyouts.Commonly eligible projects include head-cutting gullies, severely eroded stream banks and drainage ditches, wildfire damage, debris in channels, sediment deposits in creeks and drainage ditches, channel stabilization at culverts and bridges, and landslides causing a watershed impairment.

Details

• Funding Entity: USDA Natural Resources Conservation Service
• Funding Type: Grant
• Funding Range: None specified
• Match Required: 25% of construction costs; NRCS may provide up to 100% of costs for purchase of floodplain easement and restoration project.

Deadline: Project sponsors must submit a formal Request for Assistance within 60 days of the disaster occurrence or 60 days from the date when access to the sites becomes available.
Apply Via: A Request for Assistance letter directed to VT’s NRCS office