Benton SWCD 25-27 Capacity Grant

Public Outreach, Education, and Landowner Recruitment

Project ID	OWEB 226-900-24437
Recovery Domains	Willamette River
Start Date	07/01/2025
End Date	07/31/2027
Year	2024
Status	Ongoing
Last Edited	01/14/2026

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Description

In Benton County the Benton Soil and Water Conservation District (BSWCD) will function as the local management agency to the fullest extent practical. For this biennium, the BSWCD will: (1) engage agricultural landowners and provide technical assistance, (2) implement projects to improve agricultural water quality, (3) develop partnerships to support this project, (4) monitor or evaluate conditions, (5) use adaptive management to support continuous improvement, and (6) support ODA in conducting biennial reviews. This project includes targeted work identified in the SWCD’s agricultural water quality Scope of Work (SOW) and Strategic Implementation Area (SIA).

Project Benefit

The 2025-2027 Capacity Grant in Benton County will involve outreach, technical assistance, and applied practices to benefit water quality in our agricultural areas, including habitat for Oregon Coast Coho, Chinook, and steelhead, and Upper Willamette Chinook and Steelhead. Information will be exchanged through conversations, site visits, and workshops.

Source

Funds

State

$202,324

Other

$37,700

In-Kind Donated Labor

$21

Report Total:

$240,045

Worksites

24437

Worksite Identifier: 24437
Start Date:
End Date:

Area Description

No Area Description data was found for this worksite.

Location Information

Basin: Willamette (170900)
Subbasin:
Watershed:
Subwatershed:

State: Oregon
Recovery Domain: Willamette River
Latitude: 44.30470948
Longitude: -123.31215798

ESU

Upper Willamette River Steelhead DPS
Oregon Coast Steelhead DPS
Oregon Coast Coho Salmon ESU
Upper Willamette River Chinook Salmon ESU
Oregon Coast Chinook Salmon ESU

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Metrics

F.0 Public Outreach, Education, and Landowner RecruitmentY (Y/N)
- . . F.0.a Outreach, Education and Recruitment funding
- . . F.0.c Habitat treatments leveraged (LOV)
- . . F.0.d Value of treatments leveraged
- . . F.1 Outreach / Education ProjectY (Y/N)
  - . . . . F.1.a Outreach/ Education funding
  - . . . . F.1.d Outreach documents/reports preparedY (Y/N)
  - . . . . F.1.i Workshops/training eventsY (Y/N)
  - . . F.2 Landowner RecruitmentY (Y/N)
    - . . . . F.2.a Landowner recruitment funding
    - . . . . F.2.c.1 Landowners ContactedY (Y/N)
      - . . . . . . F.2.c.2 Number of Landowners Contacted