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Draft Recommendations Sensitive Areas & Best Management Practices Work Group

This document provides BMP recommendations for managing sensitive areas, such as direct confluences and groundwater conduits. It also includes other work group recommendations and suggestions for future coordination and communication.

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Draft Recommendations Sensitive Areas & Best Management Practices Work Group

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  1. Draft RecommendationsSensitive Areas & Best Management Practices Work Group

  2. Topics • BMP Recommendations • Direct Conduit Recommendations • Other Work Group Recommendations • Future Coordination and Communication

  3. 0 – 2 feet • No mechanical application (0-1 foot) • Avoid mechanical application (1-2 feet) • OR • No liquid or fall application • Limit solids to 15 tons / year • Apply within 10 days of planting or to growing crops

  4. 2-3 Feet • Follow practices for 2 – 20 feet • Avoid manure application if possible • OR • Pathogen reduction (composting or < 500,000 CFU/ml) • 13,500 (for most soils) per week or A2809 / split • N inhibitors / cover crops

  5. 3-5 Feet • Practices for 2 - 20 feet • Avoid manure application, if possible • OR • Limit liquids to 13,500 gallons per week & A2809 • Liquids use N inhibitor and do not incorporate for 72 hours • Solids to A 2809 rates and incorporate in 72 hours • Do not inject below 6 inches

  6. 5 – 20 Feet • Practices for 2 – 20 feet • Limit liquids to 27,000 gallons / week for most soils • Limit solid to A 2809 and incorporate in 72 hours • Do not inject below 8 inches

  7. 2-20 Feet • Do not apply when: • Rain > 1 inch forecast within 24 hours • DATCP MMAS is red • In closed depressions in fall after harvest unless injected or fall forage crop • Spring/summer – within 100 feet of low area • Spring/summer – within 1 mile drainage area unless injected/incorporate in 24 hours • No emergency spreading

  8. Direct Conduit Practices • Inspect fields for depth to bedrock / groundwater conduits, channels, drain tiles • Mark conduits and drain tile inlets • 5 foot vegetative buffer (no till, planting nutrients) • No application: • 1000 feet of public / community wells • 250 feet of private potable wells • 100 feet direct conduits, channels (300 if frozen)??

  9. Other Recommendations • Increase land application audits • Fill warden vacancy • Improve communications to producers on: • Winter spreading • General and specific BMPs • Increase site inspections • Improve communications to public on: • Well sampling and results response • Well compensation options • Provide emergency water supplies • State • County • Producers • Revise Well Compensation Law

  10. Coordination and Communication • Peninsula Pride Farms • Alternative Practices / Implementation Work Group • NRCS Watershed Planning Initiative • Continued County initiatives • Research Efforts • DNR-funded well study • County / Township – funded depth to bedrock stud • Grant Opportunities • S. 319 additional funding • Great lakes Initiative • Great Lakes Protection Fund • Traditional state programs (DATCP and DNR)

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