Find out how to get paid for conservation agriculture through nutrient trading during a workshop featuring Bartlett Durand of the Central States Water Environment Association 12:30-2pm Wednesday January 15 at the McHenry County Farm Bureau, 1102 McConnell Road, Woodstock.
Attend this lunch workshop to discover how municipal wastewater treatment districts will pay for conservation agriculture practices via nutrient trading credits.
Our speaker Bartlett Durand parters utilities with farmers to achieve water quality goals. He’s bringing his program from Wisconsin and Illinois into the Fox River watershed thanks to funding from the Walton Family Foundation. Bartlett has funding to immediately support grants for cover crops and other conservation practices, plus additional opportunities for future growing seasons.
Because of Clean Water Act requirements for wastewater treatment plants Bartlett is able to partner with landowners for nutrient reduction, offering more bang-for-the-buck than building wastewater facilities to meet stricter municipal nutrient discharge limits. Instead of expensive treatment plants, Municipal-Agriculture Water Quality Partnerships benefit everyone in a watershed with improved soil health, sediment reduction, carbon sequestration, wildlife habitat improvement and flood mitigation while improving local water conditions.
Please register for free lunch from DC Cobbs and Bartlett’s presentation by end of day Monday January 13 by contacting Spring Duffey of the McHenry-Lake Soil & Water Conservation District at 815-338-0444 x3 or spring.duffey@il.nacdnet.net.
Workshop and program partners:
The Walton Family Foundation
McHenry-Lake Soil & Water Conservation District
Association of Illinois Soil & Water Conservation Districts
North Moraine Wastewater Reclamation District
McHenry County Conservation District
Bartlett Durand of Central States Water Environment Association.
Bartlett Durand is a creative attorney and businessman with over twenty years of high level achievements in multiple fields. His background encompasses a broad range of practical legal experience, including academic research, complex litigation, transactional work and extensive contract work focused on business outcomes. He has started four separate companies and advised close to one hundred businesses in the startup or growth stage, mostly focused on food, processing, fertilizer production, and renewable energy.
