The Soil and Water Environmental Enhancement Program (SWEEP_, was a Canadian

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program administered by

Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada (AAFC; sometimes Ag-Canada; french: Agriculture et Agroalimentaire Canada)''Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada'' is the applied title under the Federal Identity Program; the legal title is Department of Agriculture ...

, and carried out by the province of

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. Designed to examine the effects of tillage on many types of soil, the program ran from 1986 through 1988. The impetus for the program was the Canada-U.S. Great Lakes Water Quality Agreement, calling for a reduction in phosphorus pollution in the Lake Erie basin of 2000 tonnes per year. Canada agreed to reduce phosphorus run-off by 300 tonnes per year—200 from agricultural cropland sources and 100 from industrial and municipal sources by 1990.

External links

* http://agrienvarchive.ca/sweep/sweephom.html *See related Ontario Agri-Environmental Archive: http://agrienvarchive.ca/ *See Related Clean Up Rural Beaches (C.U.R.B.) Program (1991–1996): http://agrienvarchive.ca/curb/curb.html *See Related: PLUARG (Pollution from Land Use Activities Reference Group, International Joint Commission on the Great Lakes Basin)(1972–1979): *http://agrienvarchive.ca/pluarg/pluarg.html (more than 80 PDF reports available) *See related ManureNet Canada site at: http://manurenet.ca/ Agriculture in Canada {{Agri-stub