Otero Soil & Water Conservation District

3501 Mesa Village Drive, Alamogordo, NM  88310

575-437-3100 ext. 3

Watershed Restoration

    Small dams can be temporary or permanent; they are constructed across a drainage ditch, swale, or channel to lower the speed of concentrated flows for a certain design range of storm events. A dam can be built from wood logs, stone, pea gravel-filled sandbags or bricks and cement. Slow runoff speeds will reduce erosion as well as gully erosion in the channel and allows the sediment to establish.

Erosion Control Structure Diagram

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Small Conservation Projects—Cost Share Program

Otero SWCD has a cost share program for small conservation projects.  Any landowner addressing a natural resource concern, who can prove the ownership or lease on land within the Otero SWCD boundary and is a current Otero SWCD cooperator may apply.  

 

Small Conservation Project Application