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Best Management Practices
(BMP)

(Above) A grassed waterway is a natural or constructed channel established in suitable vegetation for safe water disposal.
Primary Use: Erosion Control
Secondary Benefits: Safe disposal of runoff water; Improved water quality; Improved wildlife habitat.
NRCS Handbook of Conservation Practices fact sheet

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(Above) Critical Area Planting is planting vegetation on critically eroding areas.
Primary Use: Erosion Control
Secondary Benefits: Enhance attractiveness of site.
NRCS Handbook of Conservation Practices fact sheet

Very similar to grassed waterway, but not engineered with sloping sides to direct water to center of channel (as grassed waterway is)

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(Above) Liquid Manure Storage Pit is a containment facility to store or process manure, manure-contaminated runoff, precipitation or other process wastewaters that are in liquid form and can not be stacked as a solid. Common types include earthen-lined basins, geosynthetic-lined basins, slurry-stores and (pictured above) concrete pits.
MPCA informational sheet

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Terraces are bench-like channels enabling water to be stored temporarily on slopes to allow sediment deposition and water infiltration. Tile inlet is located in area of red circle.	No vegetative growth, but you can see the embankment to stop runoff, allow sediment deposition, water infiltration and the tile inlet.

(Above) Terraces
Primary Use: Reduce Erosion
Secondary Benefits: Enhance infiltration and to control runoff.
NRCS Field Office Technical Guide fact sheet

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No vegetative growth, but you can see the water will pool
and drain through tile inlet.

Early season growth in the field, but the embankment
is well vegetated already.

Plant residue in the field helps with runoff. The plant material on the embankment is already growing.

(Above) Sediment Control Basins are temporary basins with a controlled storm water release structure, formed by constructing an embankment of compacted soil across a drainage way. Tile inlet is located in area of red circle.
Primary Use: Removal of sediment from runoff
Secondary Benefits: Control of flow from a disturbed site.
NRCS Planning and Design Manual fact sheet

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(1) Looking downstream along the Cottonwood River.
Note unstable banks, little to no slope and many obstructions that can increase erosion along stream banks.

(2) "After" picture companion to image #1.
Note many trees by the stream bank were removed and stream bank was reshaped to a gentle slope leading to river.

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(3) Looking upstream along a tributary to the
Cottonwood River. Note unstable banks, little to
no slope and farming activities right up to the
edge of the stream bank.

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(4) "After" picture companion to image #3.
Note that crops are no longer planted right up to the
edge of the stream. Also note the stream barbs,
the rock "fingers" extending into the stream.

(Above) Stream Bank Stabilization or using Rock Rip-Rap on a stream bank is placing graded rock on a shaped stream bank surface to provide structural slope protection so erosion can be slowed or stopped.
Primary Use: Minimize stream bank erosion.
Secondary Benefits: Improved habitat for aquatic plants and animals.
USDA Stream Corridor Restoration Handbook; NRCS Engineering Field Handbook fact sheet

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(Above) Stream Barbs are low rock sills which project out from a stream bank and across the stream's thalweg (main flow within the river) to redirect stream flow away from an eroding bank. Stream Barbs are the rock groups sticking out into the river, rock rip rap is placed along the stream bank to help reduce erosion.
Primary Use: Minimize stream bank erosion.
Secondary Benefits: Improved habitat for aquatic plants and animals.
NRCS Engineering Field Handbook fact sheet

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Looking upstream from bridge

Before picture in Marshall, MN along Redwood River.

Looking downstream towards bridge

After picture in Marshall, MN along Redwood River.

(Above) Gabion Revetment or just plain "rock gabions" are metal baskets filled with rocks and secured along the bank of a river.
Primary Use: Erosion control
Secondary Benefits: Reduce sediment in river
Army Corp of Engineers, Low Cost Shore Protection fact sheet

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Best Management Practices

Up to 90% cost share assistance for waterways through CRP.

Up to 75% cost share assistance for other practices.

3.5% loan available for failing Septic Systems.

Technical assistance and advice for the professional results you want.

The Benefits:

Minimal cost

Increased productivity

Decreased downtime from fixing equipment

Increased production because you have your topsoil

Your contributing to the future of agriculture and the environment.

Grassed Waterway

Clip art courtesy of University of Wisconsin Extension

Redwood-Cottonwood Rivers Control Area (RCRCA)
1241 East Bridge Street
Redwood Falls, MN 56283
Phone: 507-637-2142, ext. 4
Fax: 507-637-2134
E-mail: rcrca2day@yahoo. com

	Up to 90% cost share assistance for waterways through CRP.
	Up to 75% cost share assistance for other practices.
	3.5% loan available for failing Septic Systems.
	Technical assistance and advice for the professional results you want.

	Minimal cost
	Increased productivity
	Decreased downtime from fixing equipment
	Increased production because you have your topsoil
	Your contributing to the future of agriculture and the environment.