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Report of Activities 2020 TABLE of CONTENTS Report of Activities 2020 TABLE OF CONTENTS INTRODUCTION . 1 CLEAN WATER . 3 ENHANCED BEST MANAGEMENT PRACTICES Ahead of the Storm Implementation Projects on Champlain Valley School District Campuses . 5 Chazy River Watershed Management Plan . 6 Coordinating Homesite Stormwater Assessments Basin-Wide to Advance Voluntary Implementation . 7 Foster Brook Culvert Replacement . 8 Georgia Shore Stormwater and Shoreline Erosion Assessment . 9 I-87 Asphalt Swale Replacement & Ditch Improvements . 10 Johnsons Mill Dam Removal in Bakersfield, VT . 11 Kennedy Drive Pond 5/6 Retrofit . 12 Lake Forest Condominiums Stormwater System Upgrade and Stream Daylight . 13 Lamoille Union High School Green Stormwater Infrastructure Retrofit . 14 Otis Brook Stream Crossing Replacement, Jay Mountain Rd, Ausable River Watershed . 15 Planning/Prioritization for Ahead of the Storm Projects at Shelburne Museum . 16 Reducing Combined Sewer Overflows to Lake Champlain through Public Private Partnerships and Innovative Technology. 17 Salt Runoff Reduction Project . 18 Stormwater Improvements at the Milton DPW Highway Garage in the Lamoille River Watershed, Milton, VT . 19 Stormwater Mitigation Final Designs: Berlin, Vermont . 20 Stormwater Reduction in the Town of Brandon . 21 The Prioritization and Design of Transportation Stormwater Mitigation Projects in Northwestern Vermont . 22 Transforming Hyde Park Village Center into a Net Zero Runoff Showcase Using Green Stormwater Infrastructure . 23 UVM Horticultural Farm Stormwater Improvements . 24 INNOVATIVE AGRICULTURE Tile Drain Base Flow Phosphorus Removal Using St. George Black . 25 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 . 26 POLLUTION PREVENTION AND HABITAT CONSERVATION Advancing a Riparian Restoration Protocol for the Ausable Watershed . 27 Converting Lawn to Forest for Water Quality Protection . 28 Demonstrating Nature-Based Driveway Solutions in the Flower Brook Watershed . 29 Developing a Riparian Protocol for the Ausable Watershed . 30 Green Stormwater Infrastructure for Reduction and Treatment of Stormwater . 31 Headwaters to South Lake, Implementation without Borders . 32 Installation of Precast Pervious Concrete in the Village of Lake George . 33 LakeWise Project Implementation on Lake St Catherine . 34 Lake Champlain Agrichemical and Fuel Storage . 35 Michelli Drive Dry Wells. 36 Missisquoi River’s Highgate Falls Portage Trail Stormwater Management Project . 37 Montpelier High School Green Stormwater Design . 38 Montpelier Riparian Area Restoration: Invasive Removal and Erosion Prevention . 39 Plattsburgh NY Illicit Discharge and Detection Elimination Study . 40 Quaker Road MS4 Stormwater and Habitat Improvement Project . 41 Rain Garden and Bioretention Practice at VSECU . 42 Riparian buffer establishment under difficult site conditions using various management techniques . 43 Lake Dunmore Fern Lake Boat Access Greeter Program . 90 Riparian Forest Stewardship and Enhancement (2019) . 44 Lake Eden Greeter Program (2019) . 91 Riparian Forest Stewardship and Enhancement (2020) . 45 Lake Eden Greeter Program (2020) . 92 Road Salt Reduction Program . 46 Lake George AIS Outreach Program (2019) . 93 Shelburne Community School Stormwater Retention and Control of Flowering Rush in Town Farm Bay . 47 Lake George AIS Outreach Program (2020) . 94 The Mad River Watershed Addreses Stormwater Pollution with Collective Landowner Action . 48 Lake Hortonia Milfoil Management (2019) . 95 Town of Peru Pollution reduction measures in Lake Champlain . 49 Lake Hortonia Milfoil Management (2020) . 96 Town of Whitehall Highway Garage Stormwater Control Project . 50 LCA Watershed AIS Survey, Map Creation, Management Plan Development, and Boat Launch Steward Initiative . 97 Trout and Missisquoi River Riparian Buffers . 51 Lincoln Pond Invasive Plant Management Initiative . 98 Warren County Habitat Improvement Project . 52 Mapping Japanese Knotweed in Shoreline Regions along the Missisquoi and Trout Rivers . 99 Zebra Mussel Impact on Native Freshwater Mussel Communities in Lake Champlain . 53 Upper Saranac Lake Watershed Steward Program . 100 PROGRAM GRANTS Warren County SWCD Invasive Plant Project (2019) . 101 2019 Clinton County SWCD Ag BMP Implementation . 54 Warren County SWCD Invasive Plant Project (2020) . 102 Basin-Wide Implementation of a Farm Phosphorus Management to Reduce P Loading and Improve Farm Viability . 55 Water Chestnut Control at Missisquoi National Wildlife Refuge . 103 CWICNY Corn Planter Retrofit Project . 56 Dam Removal in the Lake Champlain Basin . 57 PROGRAM GRANTS Evaluating Floodplain Potential for Sediment and Nutrient Retention . 58 Adaptive Cormorant Management on Lake Champlain . 104 Evaluating Performance of Media Filters to Remove Phosphorus in Stormwater Pond Outflow . 59 Assessing the Presence of Invasive Quagga Mussels in the Richelieu River and Lake Champlain Forage fish community monitoring in Lake Champlain . 60 using Environmental DNA (eDNA) . 105 Identifying and Fixing Erosion Issues on Private and Park Roads in the.
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