Contact the KCCD at (509) 925-8585 ext. 103, for more information.

The Kittitas County Conservation District, with funding from the Washington Conservation Commission, is offering a cost share program for private landowners interested in reducing soil erosion through the use of Polyacrylamides (PAM). The cost share rate is 50% with a limit of $1,000 per applicant (50% of $2,000 in receipted PAM purchases). Any fields where PAM is used are eligible for the program.

PAM has been proven through numerous local field trials to reduce sediment levels in tailwater by as much as 80%. PAM is most commonly applied to sweet corn, potatoes, small grain and new seeding hay crops. It is an effective method to minimize your loss of soil and nutrients as well as reducing silt deposition in county maintained road ditches and improving the quality of tailwaters entering strea ms and eventually the Yakima River. Between 1999 and 20075, the KCCD has cost shared on the savings of nearly 73,000 tons of soil.

Again this season, cost share for PAM application devices is available as well. The cost share rate is also 50% with a limit of $150 per cooperator (50% of $300 in receipted purchases of PAM applicators). This brings total cost share payments to a maximum of $1,150 per cooperator per year.

Please fill out an application form. If you are interested in participating, please fill out the highlighted sections and return as soon as possible. No additional application is necessary to receive cost share on the purchase of an applicator device, just check the appropriate box in Section 4. Funds for this project are limited and available on a first-come first-served basis.

The Cooperator Report of PAM Application and the Request for Reimbursement do not need to be turned in until you complete the irrigation season or the use of PAM which ever comes first. The purpose of the Cooperator Report form is to gather enough information so that we can calculate the amount of soil saved through the use of PAM. It is important for this information to be collected so that we may report the benefits of the program. Please be sure to sign the bottom of the form before turning in the report.

Due to policy changes with the cost share funding source, the KCCD cannot cost share on PAM receipts that are dated prior to the application being signed by the KCCD Board . Please turn in applications as early in the irrigation season as possible. If you would like further information or technical assistance in the application of PAM for erosion control, please call me at 925-8585.

Sincerely,

Anna Lael

District Manager

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