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Virginia Conservation Assistance Program (VCAP)

November 01, 2020 12:00 AM | Anonymous member (Administrator)

By Virginia Association of Soil and Water Conservation Districts - November 2020 

The Virginia Conservation Assistance Program (VCAP) is an urban cost-share program that provides financial incentives and technical and educational assistance to property owners installing eligible Best Management Practices (BMPs) in Virginia’s participating Soil and Water Conservation Districts (SWCDs). Most practices are eligible for 75% cost-share and some practices provide a flat incentive payment up to the installation cost. These practices can be installed in areas of your yard where problems like erosion, poor drainage, or poor vegetation occur. Qualified sites shall be used for residential, commercial, or recreational purposes with a proposed practice that addresses a need.

Your Local SWCD Can Help You…

 Restore problem areas
Control and minimize erosion
Conserve water within the landscape
Improve riparian buffer areas
Promote wildlife habitat
Re-vegetate bare slopes
Stabilize drainage ways
Treat stormwater runoff

We Help You Make a Difference…

Why do Virginia’s waters need improving? Nonpoint source pollution is the leading cause of water quality problems. Rainfall or snowmelt from suburban lawns, golf courses, and paved surfaces picks up and carries away natural and human-made pollutants depositing them into lakes, rivers, wetlands, coastal waters and ground waters.


Roads, parking lots, sidewalks, homes, and offices replace natural landscapes. Rainfall that once soaked into vegetated ground now becomes stormwater runoff, which flows directly into local waterways.

As more natural landscapes are converted to impermeable surfaces or managed turf, stormwater moves across them, carrying pollutants such as sediment and nutrients to vulnerable streams and rivers. Storm drains you see on the street do not provide any sort of water filtration.

Virginia’s Watershed Implementation Plan (WIP) for the Chesapeake Bay identifies that urban/suburban runoff is contributing to impairment and efforts to retro-actively address stormwater runoff from existing impervious surfaces is a priority. VCAP is an opportunity to help you do your part to improve water quality.

Eligible Practices… 

Most practices are eligible for 75% cost-share and some practices provide a flat incentive payment up to the installation cost.

Conservation Landscaping

Impervious Surface Removal

Permeable Pavement Installation

Dry Wells

Rainwater Harvesting

Vegetated Conveyance System

Constructed Wetlands

Bioretention

Rain Gardens

Infiltration

Green Roofs

Living Shorelines

All participating Soil & Water Conservation Districts (SWCDs) in Virginia are eligible for VCAP assistance.

Contact

 Marta Perry  Anne Coates  Greg Wichelns
 Director  Director  Director
 Tri-County/City SWCD  T. Jefferson SWCD  Culpeper SWCD
 marta.perry@tccswcd.org  anne.coates@tjswcd.org  gregw@culpeperswcd.org
 540-656-2401  434-975-0224  540-825-8591
 4811 Carr Drive  706G Forest Avenue  351 Lakeside Drive
 Fredericksburg  Charlottesville  Culpeper


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