Erosion & Sediment Control in East Bloomfield

Using Genesee River Basin Great Lakes Restoration Initiative (GRLI) funding, Ontario County SWCD recently completed a large structural erosion control project on agricultural lands in the Town of East Bloomfield. This project was our final installation funded through this GLRI program and we worked right up to the buzzer including working through snow to get the job done. The project consisted of 1,150ft of 8-10 inch smooth wall underground outlet, two surface inlets, and a 300ft long, ½ acre farmable Water and Sediment Control Basin (WASCOB). Prior to this project, surface water runoff was forming gully erosion across 6 acres of downslope cropland at a rate of 8 tons of soil loss per acre per year, or 48 tons per year across the affected project site. This project will reduce downslope erosion by 75% for an estimated soil savings of 36 tons per acre per year.