The Central Vermont Regional Planning Commission (CVRPC) on behalf of the Town of Woodbury recently received two grants: Design Implementation Block Grant from the Southern Windsor County Regional Planning Commission and an Ecosystem Restoration Program grant award from the Vermont Department of Environmental Conservation (DEC). These funds will be used to bring four preliminary stormwater … Continue reading
With support from a variety of grant sources, the Chittenden County Regional Planning Commission (CCRPC) is working to move clean water projects from Scoping to Conceptual Design to Final Design to Construction. Its member municipalities, like others throughout Vermont, are on the frontlines of efforts to help the state reach its phosphorus load reduction targets … Continue reading
With support from the Vermont Department of Environmental Conservation (VTDEC), the Chittenden County Regional Planning Commission (CCRPC) and other RPCs have been conducting outreach to explain VTDEC’s recent RFP for the selection of Clean Water Service Provider for seven watershed basins. The Clean Water Service Delivery Act of 2019 (Act 76) established a water quality … Continue reading
The Central Vermont Stormwater Master Plan for Barre Town, Barre City, and Plainfield was completed in 2018 and identified The Health Center in Plainfield as a priority. Before The Health Center was constructed, there was evidence of a gully which has since gotten deeper, wider, and longer. It sits between the existing stormwater pond and … Continue reading
To protect the health of all Vermonters, the DEC is now ONLINE! Due to the coronavirus (COVI-19) we are taking additional safety measures to protect our employees and customers and are now working remotely while focusing on meeting our normal business processes fully functional. Please communicate with our staff electronically or via phone to the … Continue reading
The Central Vermont Regional Planning Commission has been hard at work assisting in the implementation of two stormwater projects in Barre City and Northfield! As of winter 2019, both of these projects are now complete. The Barre City project is located at the end of Pouliot Avenue, and has mitigated the effects of a gully … Continue reading
On November 1st 2019, the Route 15 Bypass Culvert Replacement Project was put to the test! Instead of watching flood waters gush into the Village of Jeffersonville, for the first-time, residents saw the new upsized culvert in action. Water rushed through the new 20-foot long and 4-foot-deep culvert (formerly an 18-inch drainage culvert) and drained … Continue reading
Over the summer and early fall Windham Regional Commission and the Connecticut River Conservancy worked with landowners in Dummerston to remove a dam on private property on the Crosby Brook. The work was supported by a grant from the Vermont Department of Environmental Conservation. This defunct dam was impairing the natural flow of the river, … Continue reading
On October 31, Ottauquechee Natural Resources Conservation District coordinated a hands-on experience for Julie Brown’s Woodstock Union Structured Literacy class with US Fish & Wildlife to plant bareroot trees on Howard Jonas’ farm in Bridgewater, VT. This was a follow up for a 2017 VTDEC Trees for Stream program to replace trees damaged over the … Continue reading
This fall Barton Road in West Windsor got a makeover. Road repair is nothing new, but this project was a collaborative effort between the town of West Windsor Conservation Commission, Green Mountain Horse Association and the West Windsor Moonlighters Snowmobile Club. Years of erosion and washouts made travel for snowmobiles, mountain bikes and horseback riders … Continue reading
