Awardee Name
Board of Trustees of Southern Illinois university
Grant Type
State
Project Title
Building Better Buffers: Variable Width Riparian Buffers for Concentrated Flow
Awardee State/Territory
Illinois
Involved States/territories
Illinois
Award Year
2010
End Date
Award Amount
$75,000.00
Production/Use
Watershed/Riparian Zone
Resource Concern (Broad)
Water
Resource Concern (Specific)
Riparian zone restoration
Bank erosion from streams, shorelines or water conveyance channels
Conservation Practice(s)
Riparian Forest Buffer
Project Background
A variable width buffer design will be developed to effectively handle concentrated flow in row-cropped agricultural areas. The design will be based on over ten years of riparian buffer investigations in union and Johnson counties in southern Illinois.
Project targeted to Historically Underserved producers?
No