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Vermont Banks
Clean and Clear Water Action Plan - Speeches - Jim Douglas, Governor of Vermont
To promote the role of coordinated community efforts in improving and protecting water quality, I have instructed our Agency of Natural Resources staff to work with partners like The Nature Conservancy, the Lake Champlain Basin Program, the ECHO Center and the Lake Champlain Committee to establish a "Clean Water Day". Modeled after Green Up Day, Clean Water Day will offer Vermonters an opportunity to help clean our stream banks and waterways. I am looking forward to launching the first Clean Water Day next year. ... [Read More]
US Dept of State
Montpelier, Vt.—As part of a daylong series of Earth Day events, Governor Jim Douglas was in Williston today to announce a total of $120,270 in grants to the town for work to stabilize stream banks in the Lake Champlain watershed and reduce the amount of phosphorus reaching the lake. Read More ... [Read More]
Vermont Clean and Clear - Stream Stability
Unstable streambanks and stream channels represent a potentially enormous source of sediment and phosphorus load to Lake Champlain. For instance, in a segment of the Trout River, one of the Missisquoi River’s largest tributaries, it was estimated the two channel avulsions across agricultural fields during a single flood event in 1997 resulted in a discharge of 6.9 metric tons of total phosphorus to the stream. A 1999 streambank condition inventory on the Wild Branch in the Lamoille River watershed described approximately 80% of the total stream length as suffering from head cutting and/or undercutting, sloughing, or mass wasting of streambanks. A 1998 inventory of riverbank lands owned by the Vermont Agency of Natural Resources along the Lamoille River found that 37% of streambanks were actively eroding or slumping into the river. The report also noted that this condition appeared to be representative of all 170 miles of riverbank, both public and private, along the Lamoille̵ ... [Read More]
Central Vermont Rail Depot
While at one time the nucleus of a railroad complex, today the lone depot symbolizes the village's former importance as a railroad center. The Central Vermont Railway Depot continues to serve as the visual focus for Northfield's downtown business district. Today, a bank occupies the first floor, the latest in a series of banks that have occupied this space since 1866. ... [Read More]
The Third Way & Smart Growth - Speeches - Jim Douglas, Governor of Vermont
To date, 14 other downtowns have received state designation and the state has invested more than $23 million in resources to help revitalize these downtowns and fight sprawl. And I see the momentum building, with a high level of investment in our historic buildings, new banks in Windsor and Barre, new housing in St. Johnsbury and new commercial redevelopment in Burlington, Montpelier and Brattleboro. ... [Read More]
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