DISASTER RECOVERY – Emergency Watershed Protection Program

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; and purchasing  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.