This Website is intended to help your agriculture service center think about the impact its operations have on the environment, especially on surface water and groundwater quality. A series of checklists have been developed, based on potential activities at an ag service center. The first step is to inventory your activities to determine the checklists that apply to your site. The checklists are designed for you to self-assess environmental risks your facility poses to nearby surface water and groundwater. Use the checklists to identify areas that need work in order to minimize risk to your on-site or community drinking water sources. Another benefit is the ability to avoid time consuming complaint investigations and possible litigation.

The assessments can be done in stages and the tool will save your answers even if you quit in the middle of a section. It will save your answers for a two-week period, and you may continue from where you last stopped during that time.

We then recommend you develop a plan of action to reduce contaminants coming from your operations, or call the Kansas Small Business Assistance Program (SBEAP) for assistance with this undertaking. The SBEAP will provide free, confidential assistance to help ag service centers identify and resolve environmental compliance problems. Our phone number is 800-578-8898.

The goal of this Website is to provide users with online access to current technologies and regulations dealing with agriculture service centers. We offer online assessment tools to evaluate the management of your operation. References to the latest regulations on pesticides, fertilizers, hazardous waste management, water, wastewater, and storage tanks are available in the commentary to the checklists.

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