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build fences and install livestock walls and cover crops in such a Way as they will get 75 percent of their costs back from the state.
“I don’t really think we need to fence off all the smaller streams,” Genho said, “but, for instance, we have a calving area and it gets a lot of use and it's right on the Hazel River, and we probably should do something about that.”
Hazel’s ‘impaired’
waters
The Hazel River, in fact, has the longest stretches of “impaired” waters in recent Virginia Department of Environmental Quality (DEQ) tests that also found primarily fecal bacteria levels too high in small sections of most of Rappahannock County’s major rivers.
Since that report was issued last year, state cost-sharing programs along the Hazel now reimburse farmers up to 85 percent of their fencing, welldrilling and other costs, said CSWCD manager Greg Wilchens.
See FARMING, Page A11
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