Clean Lakes Estuaries and Rivers (CLEAR)
Clean Lakes Estuaries and Rivers (CLEAR) prioritizes water quality practices on the land that will help reduce sediment loadings, nutrient loadings, and harmful algal blooms. Practices include prairie strips, filter strips, saturated filter strips, saturated riparian buffer, riparian buffer, denitrifying bioreactor on filter strips, denitrifying bioreactor on riparian buffers, wetland restoration, wetland restoration non-floodplain.
Farm Eligibility
Does not specify
Nationwide
Bioreactor
- Filter strips
- Prairie strips
- Riparian buffer
- Saturated filter strips
- Saturated riparian buffer
- Wetland restoration
- Wetland restoration non-floodplain.
Not applicable
Money Matters
Does not specify
All continuous CRP payments plus 20% water quality Incentive
Refer to program category descriptions for general stackability potential. Reach out to the program contact for more information.
Not applicable
Contracting Info
10-30 years
Basic farm information, field boundaries, crop history, and resource concerns. Most USDA programs require you to have an FSA farm and track number.
Support is typically provided by the local SWCD or NRCS office.
Most publicly funded programs have specific establishment and maintenance requirements that are provided by SWCD / NRCS.
Technical Info
Local Farm Service Agency office
Not applicable
Not applicable
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