Ask a Watershed Management Division Basin Planner what makes any one of Vermont’s 15 river basins special and you will hear responses as varied and interesting as the basins themselves: The White is the longest undammed tributary to the Connecticut River. The Winooski has at least nine community-led groups involved in watershed activities. The cold-water … Continue reading
Tactical basin planning for the 100-mile-long Otter Creek (Basin 3) is now underway. A kick-off meeting was held at the Brandon Town Hall Community Center on June 7, 2018. Monitoring, Assessment, and Planning Program Manager Ethan Swift and Basin Planner Angie Allen led the discussion. Topics included what state scientists know about the water quality and … Continue reading
As part of its work to update town bylaws, the Proctor Planning Commission, with the help of the Rutland Regional Planning Commission (RRPC), decided to strengthen its flood protections by including the state’s Model 4 regulations for river corridors. Even though the Otter Creek runs right through the middle of Proctor village, the town had … Continue reading
Water quality sampling by Addison County River Watch Collaborative, ACRWC, volunteers in watersheds of the Lower Otter Creek is about halfway through the 2016 season. This year 31 sites are being sampled monthly for E. Coli bacteria, total and dissolved phosphorus, nitrogen, turbidity and total suspended solids for a total of over 130 individual samples … Continue reading
In October 2014, the Addision County Regional Planning Commision, ACRPC, received an Ecosystem Restoration grant from the Vermont Department of Environmental Conservation, VT DEC, to work on a stormwater master plan project in the Town of Middlebury. The project committee hired Watershed Consulting Associates LLC as the prime consultant. The goal of this project was … Continue reading
