A partnership between Wise Soil and Water Conservation District, Wise County Water Control and Improvement District #1, Wise County Commissioners Court,

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A partnership between Wise Soil and Water Conservation District, Wise County Water Control and Improvement District #1, Wise County Commissioners Court, Tarrant Regional Water District and USDA-Natural Resources Conservation Service

The coordination of partners to provide technical assistance to agricultural producers to plan and implement conservation treatment to reduce the high levels of nutrients and sediment loadings into Eagle Mountain Lake

To develop 150 conservation plans in Wise County within the Eagle Mountain Watershed Focus the bulk of the outreach to landowners in the Walnut, Blue and Salt Creek sub-watersheds

Financially assist landowners with conservation plan and practice implementation through the Environmental Quality Incentives Program(EQIP) Reduce the amount of sediment and nutrients deposited in Eagle Mountain Lake Watershed Map Watershed Map From this…To this…

Wise Soil and Water Conservation District: Serve as project manager and administrator Employ five part-time District Technicians to perform technical assistance in conservation planning, application, administrative and rural community outreach during the 15 month period USDA – Natural Resources Conservation Service: Provide fifty percent of the cost of the project not to exceed $200,000 Provide technical guidance to District Technicians and availability to NRCS technology and technical tools

These partnering organizations have agreed to provide financial support through matching and in-kind services to secure NRCS funding for technical assistance: Tarrant Regional Water District Wise County Commissioners Court Wise County Water Control and Improvement District No. 1 Sub-Watershed Map

Phillip Askey District Technician- Outreach

Mikel Thomas District Technician

Lewis McCuistian District Technician

Tyler Garrison District Technician

Jerry Payne District Technician

Garry Bible District Technician - Administrative

Designed a Brochure to highlight the project Direct mailing sent to 430 landowners within the Walnut Creek, Blue Creek, Salt Creek, Garrett Creek and Martin Branch sub-watersheds Distributed brochures to ag related businesses in watershed 12 direct on-farm outreach visits

12 direct phone outreach calls Currently identifying landowners in the 3 priority sub- watersheds 25 contacts have requested conservation planning assistance

Fourteen conservation plans in progress Approximately 1,476 Acres planned within 8 Sub- Watersheds Conservation Planning Map

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