| The Winooski
NRCD received an EPA grant (through the appropriation efforts of
Senator Patrick Leahy of $223,500 to spend over three years
implementing new urban stormwater management practices in the Potash
Brook watershed. It is a
collaborative effort between UVM’s Rubenstein School of
Environment and Natural Resources, City of South Burlington
and the Winooski NRCD.The
Potash Brook watershed is located primarily within the City of South
Burlington and encompasses over 5,300 acres or 7.5 square miles.
The downstream 5 miles of Potash Brook has been placed on
the Vermont Agency of Natural Resources (ANR) 303(d) impaired
waters list due to sediment, pathogens and metals, nutrients and
toxicity. |
The Winooski NRCD hopes to maintain
our liaison position between landowners and regulatory governmental
agencies as well as to educate landowners about contributing potential
solutions to improving water quality.
To this end, we are developing stormwater education for
middle schools, exploring alternative stormwater management practices
at a highly traveled intersection culvert receiving Interstate
89 runoff, and working within a housing development on stormwater
management practices and reduction of household non-point source
pollution.
Contact Justin Kenney, 802-865-7895
x104, or justin.kenney@vt.nacdnet.net for more information. |
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. 
