Last week, Wichita city leaders extended an agreement with the McPherson County Conservation District. The agreement is meant to work with farmers to reduce levels of atrazine in the Little Arkansas River, keeping those chemicals from being recharged into the Equus Beds Aquifer…. “That we pay farmers $100 an acre when they plant cropland back to grass,” Howard Miller, a leader for the Cheney Lake Watershed, said.
Source: KSN-TV