Environmental Protection Agency
USDA Farm Service Agency
USDA Natural Resources Conservation Service
USDA Resource Conservation and Development
US Fish and Wildlife Service
VT Agency of Ag., Food and Markets
VT Agency of Natural Resources
VT Agency of Transportation
VT Dept. of Environmental Conservation
VT Dept. of Fish and Wildlife
VT Dept. of Forest, Parks, and Recreation
VT Natural Resources Conservation Council
Central VT Regional Planning Commission
Chittenden City. Regional Planning Commission
City of South Burlington
Lake Champlain Basin Program
Town of Williston Planning Office
Friends of the Mad River
Friends of the Winooski River
Lamoille Watershed Association

Bob Barnes
Carrie & Andy Deegan
David & Janet Ellison
Lydia Fasey
Whitney Germon
Vince Gomez
Ian Govett
Faith Ingulsrud
Bonnie Lavoie
Dru Oren
Emma Ottolenghi
Stashu Polewacyk
David Potter
Sophie Quest
Sean Reilly
Tom Thompson
Christine Turner
Susan Warren
Steven Wisbaum
Wayne Zeilenga

Stormwater Management on Dorset St.

This summer, the District coordinated a major stormwater control and riparian restoration project along Potash Brook where Dorset St. and I-89 intersect in South Burlington. What makes this project interesting are the rarely used stormwater control mechanisms that were chosen to keep stormwater pollution, especially sediment, generated from Dorset St. and I-89 out of Potash Brook. An interpretive sign will be erected along the recreational path adjacent to the project site in early 2007. Here you can learn about the different best management practices at the site such as the wet swale illustrated to the right.

Trees and shrubs planted by volunteers along riverbanks in the Browns River watershed this past spring are thriving and promise to grow into healthy, forested buffers along the waterways, a goal of the Trees for Streams program.
      Trees for Streams is a voluntary, cost-share program designed for private property owners that have streams or rivers adjoining their land. The program works with these landowners to develop forested riparian buffers through planting trees and shrubs along the stream. For the first time since the program began in 1998, the program expanded beyond Lamoille County to include the impaired Browns River watershed in Chittenden County.
      Vegetated banks keep sediment and pollution out of rivers, increase property value, attract wildlife, maintain cooler water temperatures, improve fish habitat and swimming suitability, and enhance the biodiversity and aesthetics of your backyard. Join us in Spring 2007 as an interested landowner or volunteer to help with year-two of the Trees for Streams program.

Winooski Headwaters Community Project

This Project is a collaborative effort to help residents restore and protect the ecological integrity and human enjoyment of the Winooski watershed. The Project focuses on the watershed primarily in the towns of Cabot and Marshfield and is led by the Friends of the Winooski River and the Winooski NRCD. With the help of many local like-minded organizations, the Project’s kick-off event occurred in May, when 80 volunteers planted 215 bare root and balled trees and shrubs along 1100 linear feet of stream bank on the main stem of the Winooski River just north of Marshfield Village. This event was followed by the Winooski Headwaters Festival at the Old Schoolhouse Commons in Marshfield. The day was filled with displays, workshops, tours, lunch, musical entertainment, and free trees! To learn more visit www.winooskiriver.org/WHCP_index.html.