This featured Agricultural Waste Management Containment System was made possible as part of the Barnes County Sheyenne Watershed Project. The project is administered by the Barnes County Soil Conservation District and funded by an EPA grant through the ND Health Department. Other components of the project were to work with livestock producers to develop prescribed grazing systems and/or install vegetative buffers, channel stabilization or stream bank protection structures.
The Barnes County Sheyenne Watershed Project is designed to provide technical, financial and educational assistance to all agriculture producers and landowners with riparian acreage within the county. The goals are to restore and maintain the recreational and aquatic uses of the Sheyenne River and its tributaries in Barnes County, and to protect the water quality of the Sheyenne, Maple and James Rivers and their tributaries.The video was filmed at the Jim Stevens farm on the Sheyenne River South of Valley City. The Ag Waste Containment System was made possible through an EPA 319 grant with 60% paid through the grant and administered through the Barnes County SCD office; the producer paid 40% with credit for in-kind work. The total cost of the project was $71,272.00 Barnes County SCD recently received word that they were funded for another 5yrs of water quality projects.
PICTURE (Upper Right): Map of Basin that highlights the Sheyenne River
PICTURE (Above): Aerial photo of Steven's Farm
Source Links: http://www.ndhealth.gov/WQ/SW/Z1_NPS/B_Project_Directory.htm
http://www.ndhealth.gov/WQ/AnimalFeedingOperations/AFOProgram.htm
