Rates
- 70% of eligible project costs
- Maximum Payment: $8,000
Funding can be stacked with other funding programs up to 100% provided the other program allows for stacking. Applicants must inform UTRCA of additional funding
Requirements
- Field(s) must be in the Upper Thames watershed, with the exception of fields within the Municipality of South Huron, which are not eligible. View map here.
- To be eligible for cost-share funding, projects must be completed and invoices must be dated between April 1, 2026 – February 28, 2027.
- Each applicant is responsible for ensuring that the project meets all legal requirements, including local by-laws, provincial and federal acts/regulations, and Conservation Authority permits/approvals.
Eligible Projects
- Eavestroughs that direct water away from exercise yards or manure storage areas
- Clean water diversion structures such as berms and ditches that direct clean water away from an exercise yards or manure storage areas
- Any other permanent technique that prevents and snow from becoming contaminated by manure, or adding to the volume of contaminated runoff
- Covering an outdoor solid manure storage
Eligible Costs
Materials and labour (other than applicant’s) associated with an approved project.
Ineligible Costs
- Paving of exercise yards
- Labour and machinery use of the applicant, family dependents and the applicant’s business
- Hardening (such as with concrete or asphalt) of exercise yards, laneways and other travel routes, building floors, or any other surfaces
- Invoices not issued in the applications name or farm business
- Grant will not be paid on HST if the applicant is entitled to a HST rebate
- Covers on liquid storages
- Eavestroughs on new structures
Application and Review Process
Step 1: Submit your application
Step 2: UTRCA will visit site and assist with the project design
Step 3: Complete your project
Step 4: UTRCA will review and perform a final inspection
Step 5: Submit an expense claim with proof of payment (e-transfer, bank statement, etc)
Step 6: Payment will be issued