Mud Creek Erosion Control Project

Ontario County SWCD recently completed our final project funded through Ag NPS Round 24 in the Mud Creek watershed. This was a large multi-field structural erosion control project that included two large upland Water and Sediment Control Basins (WASCOBs), a grassed waterway and an underground outlet system. This project captures and controls a large water volume in two WASCOBs at the headland of the field and stores and releases it through an underground outlet system to a grassed waterway located on the other side of the road. The grassed waterway then conveys this water across another tract of cropland in a non-erosive manner.