Mississippi River Basin Healthy Watersheds Initiative
Priority Areas for FY2019
NRCS has announced the addition of 24 new priority areas in the Mississippi River Basin Healthy Watershed Initiative (MRBI). In addition, 32 existing MRBI projects will continue receiving funding in fiscal year 2019, and water quality assessments will be conducted in 16 of the new priority areas.
Targeted conservation efforts within these areas will further assists states in their nutrient loss reduction strategies to improve basin water quality and reduce the size of the seasonal dead zone in the Gulf of Mexico.
State
Priority Area
County
New Priority Areas
AR
Upper Lower St. Francis
Clay
AR
Middle Cache
Jackson
AR
Lower St Francis
Crittenden
AR
Cadron Creek-Brewer Lake
Faulkner, Conway
AR
Cache River
Woodruff
IA
Eagle Creek/Prairie Creek
Kossuth, Humboldt and Wright
IA
Cedar Creek
Wapello
IA
Turkey River
Clayton
IA
Deep Creek
Plymouth
IA
Lower Skunk River
Jefferson, Henry and Van Buren
IA
Walnut Creek
Pottawattamie and Montgomery
IA
West Branch Floyd River
Sioux
IA
West Fork Crooked Creek
Washington
IN
Kessinger Ditch
Knox
IN
Middle Wabash Deer
Tippecanoe, Carroll, Cass, Miami and Howard
MN
Goose Lake
Chisago
MO
Crane Creek-Dry Creek
Bollinger and Cape Girardeau
MO
HW Indian Creek_Cuivre River-Coon Creek
Audrain, Lincoln, Montgomery
MO
Spring Creek-Turkey Creek-Long Branch
Chariton, Linn, and Sullivan
MO
Upper/Middle Apple Creek
Cape Girardeau and Perry
OH
Chickasaw/Beaver Creek
Mercer
TN
Loosahatchie
Fayette
TN
NF Forked Deer
Crockett, Gibson, Dyer
Existing Priority Areas (Begun in FY15/FY16 and Continuing)
