Hydropower effort seeking applicants

    The Colorado Department of Agriculture and the U.S. Department of Agriculture’s Natural Resources Conservation Service are currently seeking applicants for on-farm agricultural hydropower projects.
    Applications will be accepted until Friday, Oct. 19. The funding is available to Colorado agricultural irrigators with appropriate hydropower resources. The total amount of available assistance for this round is $1.2 million.
    “This program gives producers a way to cut their costs and use their resources efficiently. It’s about water quantity, water quality and energy resources,” said CDA Energy Specialist Sam Anderson. “We focus on helping farmers upgrade outdated and labor-intensive flood-irrigation systems to more efficient pressurized-irrigation systems using hydropower, or retrofit existing sprinkler systems with a hydropower component.”

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