Our Mission Carolina Mountain Land Conservancy helps landowners protect local land and water resources vital to our natural heritage and quality of life. As a local nonprofit organization dedicated to saving the places you love, CMLC is helping to create a regional network of protected farm, forest, park and natural lands.

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Upper Broad River Watershed

The Upper Broad River Watershed Protection Program (UBRWPP) is dedicated to the conservation and protection of soil and water resources in the communities of the Upper Broad River Watershed. The program was formed in 1999 by community members-local citizens and professional organizations- that were concerned with the severe environmental and economic impacts of sedimentation.

 

Each year several thousand tons of sediment continues to be deposited into the streams and tributaries that make up the Upper Broad River watershed. This sediment degrades the water quality of our trout streams and lakes, impairs aquatic life, reduces individual's property values and inflates the cost of removal.

 

One method of reducing the amount of sedimentation in the watershed is through our Erosion Control Cost Share Program. The UBRWPP provides on-site technical assistance to landowners within the watershed by identifying erosion sources, creates a site specific conservation plan with erosion control measures, and works in conjunction with a grading contractor that is selected by the landowner to oversee proper installation of the erosion control measures. The Cost Share Program allows participating landowners to receive payment up to 90% of the average cost of repairing their eroding hill slopes, stream banks, roads, and ditches.

 

The UBRWPP also provides free workshops to the public based on citizen's environmental interests. The UBRWPP is funded through grant support from the NC Clean Water Management Trust Fund, NC's Section 319 Non-Point Source Program, and Rutherford County. Carolina Mountain Land Conservancy acts as a project manager for some of these grants.

 

To find out more about the Upper Broad River Watershed Protection Program check out their website.