Nonpoint Source Program Funding Opportunities Kenan Diker Agricultural

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Nonpoint Source Program Funding Opportunities Kenan Diker Agricultural Water Quality Specialist Water Quality Control

Nonpoint Source Program Funding Opportunities Kenan Diker Agricultural Water Quality Specialist Water Quality Control Division Colorado Department of Public Health and Environment

Overview Funding Sources Program Funding Trading/Voluntary incentive program for early nutrient reductions Questions/Answers

Overview Funding Sources Program Funding Trading/Voluntary incentive program for early nutrient reductions Questions/Answers

Opportunities!! To control nutrients in terms of nitrogen and phosphorus 85. 5(5)(a)(iv) “The Division

Opportunities!! To control nutrients in terms of nitrogen and phosphorus 85. 5(5)(a)(iv) “The Division shall collaborate with owners/operators of agricultural operations in pursuing incentive, grant, and cooperative programs to control nonpoint source pollution related to agricultural and silvicultural practices. ” 85. 5(3)(d) Nutrient Trading

NPS commitments in 10 -year roadmap Collaborate with the Ag community to implement BMPs

NPS commitments in 10 -year roadmap Collaborate with the Ag community to implement BMPs Provide information and education programs on NPS prevention and restoration activities Collaborate on the development and implementation of NPS monitoring programs Encourage NPS to point source trading proposals

Best management practices BMPs are individual practices that serve specific functions structural, such as

Best management practices BMPs are individual practices that serve specific functions structural, such as a fence for excluding livestock a buffer strip to reduce runoff and sediment in runoff an irrigation method change or scheduling or cover crops Minimizing erosion through conservation tillage

Best management practices BMPs are individual practices that serve specific functions non-structural optimizing fertilizer

Best management practices BMPs are individual practices that serve specific functions non-structural optimizing fertilizer usage through rate, placement (can be structural), timing and source managed grazing or street sweeping

How can nonpoint source program help?

How can nonpoint source program help?

Funding sources • It is a competitive process: • Watershed-based management plans • Implementation

Funding sources • It is a competitive process: • Watershed-based management plans • Implementation projects for watersheds with impaired waters and WBMP • It is also a competitive process : • Watershed-based management plans • Implementation projects

What are we doing? �Partnering with �Colorado Department of Agriculture �Lower Arkansas Valley Water

What are we doing? �Partnering with �Colorado Department of Agriculture �Lower Arkansas Valley Water Conservancy District �Otero County �Big Thompson Conservation District �NRCS

What are we doing? �Providing funding � To implement BMPs in the producer fields

What are we doing? �Providing funding � To implement BMPs in the producer fields � Irrigation efficiency improvement � Fertilizer optimization � Lining/Piping � Reduced tillage � Cover crops � Buffer Strips � NWQI

What are we doing? �Providing funding �Outreach � CSU to develop � Reg 85

What are we doing? �Providing funding �Outreach � CSU to develop � Reg 85 and BMP videos https: //coagnutrients. colostate. edu � Brown and Caldwell � To raise an awareness about Regulation 85 � To encourage them to participate

Water quality trading

Water quality trading

What is it? �Simply buying or selling of pollution credits from one discharger to

What is it? �Simply buying or selling of pollution credits from one discharger to the other(s) �Point-to-Point �Nonpoint-to-Point; a minimum of 2: 1 trade ratio applies $$$ Buyer WWTF Credit, lb, nitrogen Seller Farm

Benefits of trading For point sources Substantial cost savings Flexibility on the timing and

Benefits of trading For point sources Substantial cost savings Flexibility on the timing and level of a technology a facility to install For nonpoint sources Financial benefit Input savings Environmental benefits: nutrient control

Challenges for NPS trading Quantifying credit Direct measurements Getting easier and cheaper Modeling Pics

Challenges for NPS trading Quantifying credit Direct measurements Getting easier and cheaper Modeling Pics are from google. com

Steps for NPS trading Buyer and seller agree on trading Develop trading terms meeting

Steps for NPS trading Buyer and seller agree on trading Develop trading terms meeting State and EPA requirements Submit to the Division (permits) Get approval and incorporate into the permit Monitoring Pics are from google. com

New opportunity �WQCC Policy 17. 1 � Voluntary Incentive Program for Early Nutrient Reductions

New opportunity �WQCC Policy 17. 1 � Voluntary Incentive Program for Early Nutrient Reductions � https: //www. colorado. gov/pacific/cdphe/wqcc-policies � Allows nutrient credits to accumulate for: � Total Nitrogen below 15 mg/l � Total Phosphorus below 1 mg/l � With a 2: 1 trading ratio for NPS to PS trades � With less restrictions

Nutrient Trading

Nutrient Trading

What you can do! Continue to adopt BMPs Help your bottom line with trading

What you can do! Continue to adopt BMPs Help your bottom line with trading Encourage other producers to become involved Participate in projects to monitor and collect water quality data

Resources �EPA Guidance � https: //www. epa. gov/npdes/water-quality-trading �State of Colorado Guidance � https:

Resources �EPA Guidance � https: //www. epa. gov/npdes/water-quality-trading �State of Colorado Guidance � https: //www. colorado. gov/pacific/sites/default/files/WQ_Pollu tant-Trading-Policy. pdf

Take home!! �NPS offers incentives $$$$ �BMP implementations to control nutrients �Trading �Generate $$$$

Take home!! �NPS offers incentives $$$$ �BMP implementations to control nutrients �Trading �Generate $$$$ �Mutually beneficial �Environmentally sound �Both may prevent future regulations on NPS

Questions? Kenan Diker, Agricultural Water Quality Specialist Nonpoint Source Program WQCD-P-B 2 4300 Cherry

Questions? Kenan Diker, Agricultural Water Quality Specialist Nonpoint Source Program WQCD-P-B 2 4300 Cherry Creek Drive South Denver, CO 80246 -1530 303 -692 -3597 Kenan. diker@state. co. us