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Find similar grantsVirginia Conservation Assistance Program (VCAP) is sponsored by Virginia Soil and Water Conservation Districts (SWCDs). 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).
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- Virginia Association of Soil and Water Conservation Districts Virginia Association of Soil and Water Conservation Districts The official site of the Virginia Association of Soil and Water Conservation Districts Virginia Farm Voluntary Ag BMP Inventory Virginia Conservation Assistance Program VCAP Potential Participant Information District Employee Resources for VCAP Virginia Dominion Energy Envirothon Envirothon Study Resources Youth Conservation Leadership Institute Meaningful Watershed Educational Experience Training Resource Library Agricultural Soil Erosion Assessment for Virginia Conservationists Use the buttons below to navigate to the appropriate resources Control and minimize erosion Conserve water within the landscape Improve riparian buffer areas 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).
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. We Help You Make a Difference… Erosion, poor ground cover, and runoff from impervious surfaces are examples of water quality issues that may be fixed with VCAP.
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.
Most practices are eligible for 80% cost-share and some practices provide a flat incentive payment up to the installation cost.
Impermeable Surface Removal Vegetated Conveyance System Virginia Conservation Assistance Program (VCAP) Resources Watch us in action on CBS’s Powering Virginia Read about us and our “Lawnternatives” in Virginia Home Bureau’s Spring 2022 Cultivate Learn more about water and runoff, and how we can help on PBS’s Virginia Home Grown Opportunities for Lynchburg Homeowners to Lead in Water Conservation Efforts in Lynchburg Living VA Assn of Soil & Water Conservation Districts 7308 Hanover Green Drive, Suite 100 Mechanicsville, Virginia 23111 Kendall Elaine Tyree, Ph.
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According to the current listing, eligibility includes: Property owners, schools, or places of worship in participating Virginia Soil and Water Conservation Districts, particularly within the Chesapeake Bay Watershed. Confirm the full requirements in the official notice before applying.
Virginia Conservation Assistance Program (VCAP) is funded by Virginia Soil and Water Conservation Districts (SWCDs). Verify program details on the funder's official page before applying.
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