Over the years the project owner engaged a qualified third-party consultant, Strand Associates, to prepare a Water Quality Trading Plan which details the number of nutrient credits available in the event agricultural activities were discontinued and the fields were converted to the prior existing natural environment. The Water Quality Trading Plan is finalized and is in a form that can be immediately submitted to the Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources (“WDNR”) for review and approval through the Wisconsin Water Quality Trading Clearinghouse.
In the event the WDNR approves the plan, and the fields are converted back to the natural environment, the reductions in nutrients resulting from such conversion will be available in the form of nutrient credits to sell to permit holders in the watershed that are subject to limitations for these nutrients. These credits can be used by the purchaser as an alternative to installing very expensive control technology to mitigate their own nutrient discharges
Estimates of Credits from the Project
- Water Quality Trading Plan
- Phosphorus Credits-Long Term
- Phosphorus Credits-Interim
- Total Suspended Solids Credits-Interim
- Total Suspended Solids Credits-Long Term
- Total Nitrogen Credits-Interim
- Total Nitrogen Credits-Long Term
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Carbon Offsets
- 2,631-4,209 tCO2/year (estimated)
