Every month, the Clean Water Initiative Program will be highlighting a Clean Water Superstar. These are species that help keep our state’s water resources swimmable, drinkable, and fishable. This is a follow-up to the first blog post about native mussels, January’s Clean Water Superstars. Throughout the month, there will be information, resources, pictures, and videos … Continue reading
Editor’s Note: During fall 2016, the Watershed Management Division revisited places hit hard by Tropical Storm Irene in 2011. One such area was the Black River corridor through the towns of Plymouth and Ludlow. This is the first of three posts celebrating five years of hard work by local and State partners to improve the … Continue reading
Municipal Roads General Permit Update Speaker: Jim Ryan, DEC Thursday Jan. 12, 2017 11:00 AM-Noon Winooski Room The Municipal Roads General Permit (MRGP), required by the Vermont Clean Water Act (Act 64), will be issued in the summer of 2018. During this month’s Brown Bag on the MRGP, Jim Ryan of the Department of … Continue reading
There is a saying “Tell me and I’ll forget, but show me and I’ll remember”. This saying has been a common theme heard from folks attending our Vermont Rivers and Roads Tier II Training Program in the first five years of the training workshops held throughout the state from 2012 to 2016. Vermont mandated the … Continue reading
The Division is pleased to announce the availability of the final Tactical Basin Plans for the Missisquoi Bay and Lamoille River watersheds. These tactical basin plans present scientifically robust assessments of watershed health, and contain detailed suites of potential actions to restore or protect the health of the streams and lakes of the watershed. These … Continue reading
In the spring of 2015, Montpelier’s Planning & Community Development and Public Works Departments received a VTDEC ERP grant to create a city-wide stormwater master plan. The City hired the consulting team of Stone Environmental and Greenman Pedersen to develop the plan. Stormwater master planning at the municipal scale offers two primary benefits: A broad … Continue reading
Every month, the Clean Water Initiative Program will be highlighting a Clean Water Superstar. These are species that help keep our state’s water resources swimmable, drinkable, and fishable. January’s Clean Water Superstars are native mussels! Throughout the month, there will be information, resources, pictures, and videos about these superstar animals posted on the Clean Water … Continue reading
Now that the 2014 Lake Champlain Monitoring Report is available online, we can report it contains bad news about the spread of spiny water flea. While we knew the spiny water flea would travel fast once introduced, the extent to which it spread through Lake Champlain in 2014 surprised us. The first sighting, near Valcour … Continue reading
The removal of an old (circa 1870) ice pond dam restored 10 square miles of stream habitat in Rutland County this past summer. Long known as the Kendrick Pond dam, the dam site was initially constructed as a saw mill and the impoundment later supported an ice harvesting business. The dam became obsolete, the impoundment … Continue reading
