Deadline: 17-Feb-23
The Landscape Boards South Australia is now accepting applications for its Cummins Wanilla Basin Grants to agricultural production and address issues such as dryland salinity, waterlogging, erosion, and sedimentation.
To support current drainage infrastructure required to maintain the function of the catchment, improve hydrology for the purpose of supporting agricultural production and address issues such as dryland salinity, waterlogging, erosion and sedimentation, the Cummins Wanilla Basin Streamcare Group has secured $250,000 in funding from the State Government’s Regional Growth Fund. This funding will be made available to landholders in the affected area through a grants program administered by the Eyre Peninsula Landscape Board.
Priorities
- Sustaining land and water resources, reducing further deterioration in salinity and waterlogging, and where possible, restoring land and water quality.
- Upgrading or maintaining existing drainage infrastructure.
- Conserving natural diversity, protecting remaining natural areas, and restoring a representative range of natural environments on a regional scale through improved land management and farming.
- Reducing economic and financial losses to the individual, the community and the state, in terms of agricultural production, water quality downstream in the catchment (with particular attention to the oyster industry in coffin bay), water resources, environmental values and infrastructure.
- Reducing negative impacts on landowners across the catchment.
- Providing support for new economic activity that would not otherwise occur.
- Be sustainable without further intervention by government after the funding has been provided.
- Contributing to the scale of an industry or sector, and have a connection to and vested interest in a specific regional community.
Funding Information
Landholders, land managers and councils within the basin are eligible to apply for a grant of between $2000 and $30,000, to complete work that upgrades and maintains existing drainage infrastructure. The grant recipients need to commit a 50% matching contribution which can include their labour and use of machinery costs.
Eligibility Criteria
The following eligibility criteria will need to be met. The applicant will need to:
- Be an individual, community organisation, council, farming systems group or other body working at the local level and based within the Cummins Wanilla Basin on lower Eyre Peninsula.
- Be undertaking activities that will achieve improvements by upgrade and maintain existing drainage infrastructure at a local level.
- Be able to demonstrate skills and resources to complete the works and be contributing at least 50% of the total cost of the project.
- Be a legal entity or be sponsored by a legal entity.
- Ensure that proposed project activities are not a component of any other funding agreement.
- Ensure that written approval for any works undertaken on land owned by another person/entity other than the applicant, is attached to the application.
- Be undertaking project activities within the Cummins Wanilla Basin of the Eyre Peninsula Landscape Board region.
- Submit a project proposal that is aligned with the priorities outlined below.
- Gain a water affecting activity permit, where required prior to commencing works.
For more information, visit Landscape Boards South Australia.
For more information, visit https://www.landscape.sa.gov.au/ep/get-involved/grants-and-funding