The Chittenden County Regional Planning Commission (CCRPC) and the Town of Jericho are pleased to announce the completion of the Jericho Stormwater Master Plan. Using a Clean Water Fund grant awarded by the DEC Clean Water Initiative Program, the CCRPC hired the Vermont firm, Watershed Consulting Associates (WCA) to prepare the Plan. WCA staff consulted … Continue reading
The Watershed Management Division is seeking public input on three draft plans to strategically improve water quality in the Lake Memphremagog watershed. A series of public meetings will be held in May and June to discuss the plans and hear suggestions from citizens. The waters of Lake Memphremagog are shared with the province of Quebec, … Continue reading
Speaker: Staci Pomeroy, DEC Thursday, April 27, 2017 11:00 AM – Noon National Life Main Building – Winooski Room, M240 In Vermont, river instability contributes the second largest phosphorus load, just over 20%, to Lake Champlain. Learn how projects to protect and restore river corridors in the Lake Champlain Basin are helping to reduce this … Continue reading
The net impacts of tile drainage on water quality are not well understood, and the science is sometimes conflicting and often inconclusive. This was the conclusion of a report, submitted by the Agencies of Natural Resources and Agriculture, Food and Markets to the Vermont Legislature on January 31st of this year. The report calls for … Continue reading
Imagine a web-based mapping tool that geographically shows and quantifies phosphorus sources by land use sector across the Lake Champlain Basin in Vermont. Sound too good to be true? It’s not—meet the Clean Water Roadmap, developed with support from Keurig Green Mountain and The Nature Conservancy. Roadmap creators and environmental consultants, LimnoTech, are offering an … 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
The Vermont Department of Environmental Conservation is seeking input on proposed phosphorus cleanup plan for Lake Memphremagog that will be the basis of a Total Maximum Daily Load (TMDL). This meeting will be held on Tuesday November 15th from 2:00 to 3:30 at the East Side Restaurant 47 Landing St in Newport. Phosphorus levels in … Continue reading
