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Delaware

CREPConservation Reserve Enhancement Program

Solutions for Producers Solutions for Watersheds

  United StatesDepartment ofAgriculture 

Participating Agencies:

USDA Farm Service Agency

USDA Natural ResourcesConservation Service

Soil Conservation Districts

Delaware Deartment of Natural

Resources and EnvironmentalControl

US Fish ! Wildlife Service

Delaware Deartment of Agriculture

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Solutions for Landowners

Since 1999, the Delaware Conservation ReserveEnhancement Program (CREP) has been helping producers install and maintain conservation

 practices on their propert! CREP provides anopportunit "or landowners to earn dependableincome, and at the same time protects watersheds b removing environmentall sensitive land "rom production! #o date, over $,%%% acres have beenenrolled in this voluntar program&

CREP pro'ect areas include the coastal plains inthe Chesapeae a, Delaware a, and *nlandas basin areas!

Delaware’s Practices

#he Delaware CREP is authori+ed to enroll up to1%,%%% acres to the "ollowing practices

ardwood

!rees

"ildlife a#itat

$rass %ilter

Strips Riparian

&uffers

"etland

Restoration

Shallow "ater

Areas for "ildlife

Placement o" the practices (e-cept "or Shallow.ater /reas "or .ildli"e) must ad'oin impairedstreams or contributing drainage ditches indesignated pro'ect areas!

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Signup 'nformation

CREP enrollment will be on acontinuous basis, until acreagegoals have been reached!

*nterested parties are encouraged tocontact the nearest 0SD/ ServiceCenter!

Kent (302) 741-2600

New Castle (302) 832-3100

Sussex (302) 856-3990 

Delawares CREP Coordinator,Dale Churche, is also available at

(302) 242-9943

Pa(ments and'ncentives

87.5% of te !osts of

esta"l#s#n$ C&'

a!t#!es

*nnual ental

a+,ents 

• 0p to 2334 per

acre "or land planted inRiparian u""ers, 5ardwood#rees or .etlandRestoration!

• 0p to 21$4 per

acre "or .ildli"e 5abitat,6rassed 7ilter Strips andShallow .ater /reas

*#t#onal /n!ent#e

'a+,ents fo so,e

a!t#!es

• Sign8up

*ncentives o" 21% per acre

enrolled

• Practice

*ncentives eual to :%; o"the eligible cost o" practiceinstallation

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Solutions for "atersheds

taing environmentall sensitive land out o" production and bu""ering impairedstreams, Delaware CREP sees to

Reduce nutrient and sediment loadings in impaired streams

*ncrease wildli"e habitat and create wildli"e corridors

*mprove water temperature and levels o" dissolved o-gen, which are necessar to

support biolog and wildli"e

Eligi#ilit( for the Program

CREP applications must satis" basic eligibilit criteria! Contact the CREP Coordinator (listed on the right) "or details!

Participants agree to establish and maintain practices under a 1% or 14 ear contract!

<and must have been cropped : o" $ ears during the period o" 3%%=83%1>! ?arginal pastureland is also eligible i" it is suitable "or use as a riparian bu""er planted in trees!