Agricultural Water Enhancement Program (AWEP)

2012 Kansas AWEP Program Information

Kansas has received an allocation of $3.8 million for the approved AWEP project areas for Fiscal Year 2012.

Project Areas

The allocation will be distributed amongst the following approved Kansas AWEP project areas:

• Northwest Kansas Groundwater Management District No. 4 (GMD No. 4) was funded for a three-year period in FY 2010. Six designated agricultural areas are eligible to directly conserve groundwater. To address the aquifer overdraft concern, NRCS and the GMD No. 4 seek to convert irrigated to dryland cropland acres in portions of Cheyenne, Sherman, Sheridan, and Thomas Counties.
• Equus Beds Groundwater Management District No. 2 (GMD No. 2) was funded for a five-year period for FY 2010. NRCS and GMD No. 2 will address inefficient water use on irrigated land and aquifer overdraft, through installation of more efficient irrigation systems and irrigation water management. The eligible area includes the entire GMD No. 2.
• Big Bend Groundwater Management District No.5 (GMD No. 5) was funded for a five-year period for FY 2010. NRCS and GMD No. 5 will address inefficient water use with financial assistance to remove end guns and convert those acres to non-irrigated. The project area is in the Rattlesnake Creek Sub-basin.
• Southwest Kansas Ground Water Management District No. 3 (GMD No. 3) was funded for a five-year period for FY 2011. NRCS and the GMD 3 will address water quantity resource concerns converting irrigated cropland to dryland cropland acres and reducing irrigation water use. The eligible areas are located in parts of, Finney, Ford, Grant, Gray, Haskell, Kearny, Meade, Morton, Seward, Stanton, and Stevens Counties.

Producer Sign-up Information

The assistance provided through the AWEP agreement enables farmers and ranchers to install conservation practices to address priority natural resource concerns. These concerns will be address through the Environmental Quality Incentive Program (EQIP), where approved producers will treat the AWEP concern with an EQIP contract.

Application forms are available at your local USDA Service Center.

Producers in the project areas have until February 24, 2012, to submit applications for FY 2012 AWEP funding.

Documents on this page require Adobe Reader.

Map - Priority Areas for GMD No. 2, 3, 4, and 5 (PDF; 221 KB)
Equus Beds GMD No. 2 - Eligible Practices (PDF; 14 KB)
Equus Beds GMD No. 2 - Ranking Criteria (PDF; 74 KB)
Southwest Kansas GMD No. 3 - Eligible Practices (PDF; 19 KB)
Southwest Kansas GMD No. 3 - Ranking Criteria (PDF; 76 KB)
Northwest Kansas GMD No. 4 - Eligible Practices (PDF; 11 KB)
Northwest Kansas GMD No. 4 - Ranking Criteria (PDF; 116 KB)
Big Bend GMD No. 5 - Eligible Practices (PDF; 18 KB)
Big Bend GMD No. 5 - Ranking Criteria (PDF; 71 KB)

Kansas Practice Payment Schedule - Fiscal Year 2012 (PDF; 2 MB) Updated March 2012

Last Modified: 03/09/2012