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The Wetlands Reserve Program (WRP) was a voluntary program offering landowners the opportunity to protect, restore, and enhance wetlands on their property. The USDA Natural Resources Conservation Service (NRCS) administers the program with funding from the Commodity Credit Corporation.
The Emergency Wetlands Reserve Program (EWRP), authorized in 1993 under emergency supplemental appropriations to respond to widespread floods in the Midwest, provided payments to purchase easements and partial financial assistance to landowners who permanently restored wetlands at sites where the restoration costs exceeded the land’s fair market value.
The Wetland Reserve Program (WRP) funds landowners that volunteer their land for wetland development and provides opportunities for landowners participate in the maintenance of the project. The land must meet specific requirement to receive funding and the program is set up for each state in the United States. The Landowner has up to three choices:
Participants receive annual rental payments. As these contracts expire, participants are offered the opportunity to place the land in the Wetland Reserve Program (WRP). Land is no longer being enrolled in Water Bank.
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The Conservation Reserve Program (CRP) is a cost-share and rental payment program of the United States Department of Agriculture (USDA). Under the program, the government pays farmers to take certain agriculturally used croplands out of production and convert them to vegetative cover, such as cultivated or native bunchgrasses and grasslands, wildlife and pollinators food and shelter plantings ...
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Stickney WRP 677 2 5 0.5 1 99.94% Calumet WRP 256 3 6 0.4 0 100% O'Brien WRP 232 2 6 0.6 0 100% Kirie WRP 41.77 2 2 0.3 0 100% Egan WRP 23.9 2 2 0.1 0 100% Hanover Park WRP 9.50 3 5 0.3 0 100% Lemont WRP 2.56 4 8 - 0 100% CBOD: Carbonaceous biochemical oxygen demand. SS: Suspended Solids. NH4-N: Ammonia nitrogen.