ACT Rural Resilience Grants - 2019-2020 Recipients - Environment, Planning and Sustainable Development Directorate - Environment

ACT Rural Resilience Grants - 2019-2020 Recipients

17 projects were supported under the ACT Rural Resilience Grants in 2019-20.

Projects supported under the Round 2 of ACT Rural Resilience Grants 2019/20

Location of Farm

Support provided under the grant program.

Stock water tank and farm fencing to improve management of stock and groundcover management

Majura

$10,000

Stock water tank

Tharwa

$3,500

Stock feed silo to provide consistent feed to stock during extended dry conditions and remove pressure on farm pastures and groundcover

Tharwa

$10,000

Stock water dam to provide off-stream stock water and to protect riparian vegetation

Tharwa

$9600

Installation of two stock water tanks to harvest water from an existing shed to improve extended dry condition stock water supply.

Tidbinbilla

$1,423

Extension of stock water supplies through pump, piping and troughs

Symonston

$7,200

Installation of a 100,000 litre tank to extend the current bore-water supply system for livestock.

Booth

$10,000

Purchase and Installation of a silo to store feed for a free range egg enterprise

Hall

$7,764

Installation of a bore and pump for watering truffle farm

Majura

$10,000

Purchase of a silo to store feed for a free range egg enterprise

Kambah

$10,000

Installation of solar pump and water tank for pumping and storing stock water and distributing through the property.

Booth

$10,000

Establishment of a drought lot feeding facility for stock

Tuggeranong

$10,000

Installation of a stock water bore

Tidbinbilla

$10,000

Construction of two off-stream stock watering points; and weed control adjacent to Jerrabomberra Grasslands

Hume

$9,500

Dam repair and installation of stock water pipes to extend reach of stock water across the property

Stromlo

$9,932

Construction of a stockwater dam and fencing of a natural spring to prevent stock trampling and degradation

Tennant

$10,000

Purchase of pump and installation of piping to extend network of farm water supply to ensure farm is more resilient in drought

Paddys River

$7,081