Assistance to Municipalities

Culvert Evaluations

Mine Land Reclamation

Hydroseeding Program

The Wyoming County Soil & Water Conservation District, in cooperation with the Wyoming County Highway Department, operates and maintains a hydroseeding program. The purpose of this program is to assist municipalities and highway departments with a quick and easy method of seeding bare areas such as parks, streambanks, pond dikes, road ditches, and highway construction projects. Establishing a vegetative cover is very important in reducing erosion at construction sites, site developments, and other soil disturbance areas.

The Hydroseeder is a machine with a large tank that blends a mixture of seed, fertilizer, water and wood fiber or paper mulch into slurry, which is sprayed on the soil. A tackifier is used on the steeper slopes to help hold the mixture to the soil until the seed can germinate. Our hydroseeding equipment mixes up to 950 gallons of seeding mix that covers approximately 10,000 square feet or approximately ¼ acre. The cost of hydroseeding is a relatively inexpensive method of establishing a uniform cover when the dollars saved in the cost of labor is considered. Our hydroseeding equipment was made possible by a grant to the District from the NYS DEC and the Finger Lakes Aquatic Vegetation Control Program.

Blackhouse Road Before

Blackhouse Road After

Road Ditch Stabilization Project - Luther Grove Road - Silver

Funded through an Erosion & Sediment Control Water Quality Mini-Grant to the Wyoming County Soil & Water Conservation District and the Wyoming County FL/LOWPA Program.

Improve general drainage conditions along Luther Grove Road to:
- Reduce localized flooding issues within this section of the Silver Lake Watershed.
- Reduce road ditch erosion.
- Reduce sediment inputs into Silver Lake.
- Demonstrate the use of manufactured erosion control products with traditional methods.