Soil and Water Conservation Districts were established nationwide as a grassroots effort to partner with federally funded programs established to control soil erosion brought to attenetion during the dust bowl. Our district was established in 1944 to serve all 269,440 acres of Greene County, Ohio, directed by a board of five publicly elected supervisors.

We provide the community many serivces including but not limited too:

Available Services

• Conservation Education
• Drainage Management
• Ditch Maintenance
• Erosion Control
• Forestry and Wildlife Management
• Land Use Planning
• Pollution Abatement
• Soils Information
• Stormwater Management
• Urban MS4 Program
• Water Quality

The district is funded by the Greene County Commisioners, the State of Ohio, the USDA Natural Resource Conservation Service (NRCS), the Soil and Water Conservation Commission, and the Ohio Department of Agriculture.