Lake Champlain LakeReport Champlain of Activities BasinBasin ProgramProgram 2018 2016 Report of Activities: Appendix 2017 Report of Activities Lake Champlain Basin Program Local Implementation Grants The LCBP Local Grant Programs provide vital support for many of the tasks included in the Lake Champlain Management Plan Opportunities for Action. The LCBP’s core areas of work are addressed through grants awarded in several categories: Pollution Prevention and Habitat Conservation, Aquatic Invasive Species Spread Prevention, Education and Outreach, Organizational Support, and Cultural Heritage and Recreation. Since 1992, the LCBP has awarded more than 1,200 small grants amounting to more than $9,000,000 to 350 organizations. Local municipalities and watershed groups, Soil and Water Conservation Districts, Natural Resource Conservation Districts, NGOs, schools, and many other groups have been funded for effective projects awarded through a competitive process. The outcomes of these grants feature the accomplishments of citizens working in their own communities, often with their own neighbors. Sum of grants administered $966,656 by LCBP staff in FY 2018 Local implementation 100 grants administered by Funds Administered, LCBP by grant category Categories of local 6 implementation grants administered Note: Grants administered in FY 2018 were funded with budgets from multiple years. Technical Project Grants Each year, the LCBP supports a number of technical Key technical projects from 2018 include: research and implementation projects. The awards for » Tile drain monitoring and phosphorus filter experi- these projects are generally larger than local grants, and ments. are solicited with Requests for Proposals from universi- » High resolution land cover mapping of the U.S. portion ties, consultants, research foundations, and other orga- of the Basin. nizations. Many of these larger research projects provide » The Farm-P Reduction Planner agricultural phosphorus the foundation for informing critical decisions for limited reduction tool. management resources. Results from these studies often » Technical Assistance in Wastewater Treatment Facility inform policy, and are extended to educational program- Asset Management. ming and training opportunities by partners across the » Demonstration project of whole farm nutrient manage- watershed. ment to reduce phosphorus loading. www.lcbp.org TABLE OF CONTENTS BOUND BY WATER . 1 SECTION ONE: CLEAN WATER . 3 IN PROGRESS ENHANCED BEST MANAGEMENT PRACTICES BMP Prioritization & Design in the Mad River Headwaters . 5 Chazy River Watershed Management Plan . 6 Clinton County Shared Vacuum Trailer . 7 Foster Brook Culvert Replacement . 8 Inventory and Assessment of Roof Drains in the Combined Sewer Service Area of Montpelier, Vermont . 9 Retrofit of Pinnacle at Spear Stormwater Pond A . 10 South Lake Champlain Shoreline Stabilization and Runoff Reduction Project . 11 Village of Fort Ann Wastewater Treatment Plant Upgrade Plan and Concept Design . 12 INNOVATIVE AGRICULTURE Development INNOVATIVE of AGRICULTURan Approach and Tool to Optimize Farm Scale P Management and Achieve Watershed Scale Loading . 13 Feasability Evaluation of P Removal via Engineered Ecosystems in the St Albans Bay Watershed . 14 Tile Drain Base Flow Phosphorus Removal Using St. George Black . 15 Tile Drainage System Monitoring and Assessment in the Northern and Southern Lake Champlain Basin, and Comparing Two Active Media Filters to Remove Phosphorus from Tile Drainage Water in the St. Albans Bay Watershed, VT . 16 POLLUTION PREVENTION AND HABITAT CONSERVATION Carriage Hill Stormwater Retrofit Project . 17 Cost-Benefit Analysis of Proposed Actions Needed to Reduce Phosphorus Loads from the Rock River Subwatershed to Missisquoi Bay by 40% . 18 Enhancing the Benefits of Cover Crops through Innovative Roller-Crimper Technology . 19 Franklin Watershed Committee Pollution Prevention and Habitat Conservation . 20 Great Chazy-Saranac Watershed Culvert Assessment . 21 Green Stormwater Infrastructure in the Moon and Tenney Brook Watersheds . 22 Hazardous Soil Removal from the Boquet River Banks . 23 Headwaters to South Lake, Implementation without Borders . 24 Montpelier Chestnut Hill Stormwater Mitigation Design . 25 Montpelier High School Green Stormwater Design . 26 Phosphorus Loading in the Flower Brook Subwatershed . 27 Pollution Control and Preserving Water Quality by Promoting the Replacement of Outdated Septic Systems . 28 Protecting Northern Lake Champlain through Farmer-to-Farmer Implementation of Agricultural Practices . 29 Quarry Dam Removal Project . 30 Reducing Stormwater Runoff and Improving Access to the Lamoille River . 31 Riparian Forest Stewardship in the Winooski and Missisquoi Watersheds . 32 Shelburne Community School Stormwater Retention . 33 Trees for Streams 2018: Riparian restoration on Muddy Brook, Allen Brook, and LaPlatte River within the Lake Champlain Watershed . 34 TECHNICAL PROJECTS Agricultural Practice Monitoring and Evaluation in the Vermont Portion of the Lake Champlain Basin . 35 Assessment of Tile Drainage System Impacts to Lake Champlain and Phosphorus Loads in Tile Drainage Water in the Jewett Brook Watershed of St. Albans Bay . 36 Cedar Valley Farm Farmstead Milk House Waste BMP . 37 Clinton County Cover Crop Implementation . 38 Cyanobacteria Monitoring Program 2018 . 39 Environmental Monitoring and Recreational Assessment . 40 Essex County Rotational Grazing and Cover Crop Project . 41 Little Chazy Tributary Gage . 42 North Country Creamery Grazing Improvement Project . 43 North Country School Grazing Improvement . 44 Operation and Maintenance of Lake Champlain Meteorological Stations . 45 Streamflow Monitoring of the West Branch Little River, Stowe, VT . 46 CONCLUDED ENHANCED BEST MANAGEMENT PRACTICES Lake George Stormwater Runoff Direct Discharge Reduction Project . 47 Pinnacle at Spear Stormwater Improvements . 48 Sanitary Sewer Utility Mapping to reduce Occurrence of Combined Sewer Overflows and Stormwater Master Planning for Vergennes, VT . 49 FLOOD RESILIENCE AND CLIMATE CHANGE Building a Flood Resilient Northfield . 50 New Haven River Watershed Flood Adaptation Project . 51 Northwest Vermont Climate Navigators . 52 Tools for Resilience in the Mad River Watershed . 53 IMPERVIOUS SURFACES AT SCHOOLS Cabot School Stormwater Reduction Project . 54 School Stormwater Audits . 55 Stormwater Mitigation at Cambridge Elementary School . 56 POLLUTION PREVENTION AND HABITAT CONSERVATION Bank Stability and Invasive Species Assessment on the Ausable River . 57 BTV Blue®: Enhanced Residential Stormwater Management Cost-Sharing Framework Development and Implementation . 58 CWICNY Rain Harvesting Project . 59 Evaluating Stormwater Pond Performance and Opportunities for Improvement: Using floating restorers to improve stormwater pond efficiency in S Burlington . 60 Huntington Garage Stormwater Practice Construction . 61 Nesti Swale Phosphorus Pollution Mitigation Project . 62 Protecting and Restoring Floodplain Forests for Wildlife and Recreation . 63 Reducing Phosphorus Loading and Improving Fish Habitat and Connectivity within Texas Hill Tributary Huntington, VT . 64 Smilie School Stormwater Mitigation Project . 65 St Albans City Stormwater Reduction and Treatment . ..