From the Vermont Department of Environmental Conservation | Watershed Management Division:
The Division is pleased to announce the availability of the final
Tactical Basin Plans for the Lamoille River
watershed. This tactical basin plan presents scientifically robust
assessments of watershed health, and contains detailed suites of
potential actions to restore or protect the health of the streams and
lakes of the watershed. This plan also contain consistently-developed
modeling of the phosphorus sources that pollute Lake Champlain.
Phosphorus pollution diminishes the use and enjoyment of the Lake
Champlain and certain other waterbodies, for Vermonters and visitors
alike.
These plan was developed in partnership with the associated
regional Planning Commissions, including Chittenden, Northwest,
Lamoille, and Central VT RPCs, and the Northeast Vermont Development
Authority. These partners, as well as Natural Resources Conservation
Districts and others, were instrumental in developing the plans, and
will be key organizations in their implementation.
The issuance of this tactical basin plan was one of many important
outcomes of the Lake Champlain TMDL issued by USEPA, and of the 2015
Vermont Clean Water Act. While the hard work developing these plans is
now complete, the larger effort of implementing them now begins.
Thankfully, Vermonters from the municipal, agricultural, forestry, and
developed sectors are all-in on this effort. Please refer to the
tactical basin planning webpage for additional information, and to access
to the new basin plan.
http://dec.vermont.gov/watershed/map/basin-planning/basin7
