Annual Report of AcƟviƟes

Fiscal Year: October 1, 2013 – September 30, 2014

February 17, 2015 ABOUT THE LAKE CHAMPLAIN BASIN PROGRAM

The Lake Champlain Basin Program (LCBP) was created by the Lake Champlain Special Designa‐ on Act of 1990. Our mission is to coordinate the implementaon of the Lake Champlain man‐ agement plan, OpportuniƟes for AcƟon. Program partners include New York, Vermont, and Québec, the US Environmental Protecon Agency (USEPA) and other federal agencies, the New England Interstate Water Polluon Control Commission, and local government leaders, businesses, and cizen groups. The Lake Champlain Steering Commiee leads the LCBP. Its members include many of the pro‐ gram partners, and the chairpersons of technical, cultural heritage and recreaon, educaon, and cizen advisory commiees. The LCBP’s primary annual funding is received through a USEPA appropriaon under the Federal Clean Water Act. The New England Interstate Water Polluon Control Commission manages business operaon of the LCBP on behalf of the Steer‐ ing Commiee. Visit www.lcbp.org to learn more. Table of Contents Introducon …………………………………………………………...Page 6 Grants in Progress …………………………………………………..Page 7 POLLUTION PREVENTION Reducing Stormwater Runoff from Residenal Properes 8 Willsboro Constructed Wetland Demonstraon Report 9 Bio Filter and Retenon in Sheldon Spring 10 Stormwater Migaon at Palmer Court 11 Mossy Point Boat Launch Stormwater Migaon Project 12 Lamoille Watershed Road Erosion Assessment 13 Lake George Municipal De‐Icing Best Management Pracces Project 14 Watershed Stewards Rain Garden 15 Increasing Cover Cropping in the St Albans Bay Watershed 16 Warren County Erosion and Sediment Reducon Program 17 Intervale Conservaon Nursery: Planng Trees to Improve WQ 18 Water Conservaon to Reduce P Inputs to Waste Water Treatment Facilies 19

SHORELINE HABITAT Buffer Lake George 20 Bulwagga Bay Campground Shoreline Stabilizaon Project 21 Boquet River Habitat Improvement 22

AQUATIC INVASIVE SPECIES AIS River Steward for the Central Champlain Region of NY 23 AIS Spread Prevenon and Early Detecon through Watershed Stewardship 24 (Lower Saranac Lake Shore Owner’s Associaon) Aquac Invasive Wash Staon and Boater Survey Project 25 Invasive Species Prevenon Acvies of the Rainbow Lake Water Quality 26 Protecon Program AIS Spread Prevenon and Early Detecon through Watershed Stewardship 27 (Shore Owner’s Associaon of Lake Placid) The Watershed Stewardship Program on the Upper Saranac Lake to Prevent 28 the Spread of Aquac Invasive Species AIS Spread Prevenon and Early Detecon through Watershed Stewardship 29 (Watershed Stewardship Program) Lois McClure 2014 Tour—AIS Spread Prevenon Educaon 30 Boat Access Greeter Program 31

EDUCATION & OUTREACH Bilingual Boang Publicaon 32 Engaging Public Audiences in Immersive Watershed Technologies 33 Essex County Watershed Protecon Educaon Program 34 Residenal Stormwater Educaon and Technical Assistance Program 35 Floang Classrooms 36 Municipal De‐Icing Best Management Pracces Outreach Program 37 Bugworks 2014 38 Lake Champlain Nave Plant Restoraon Nursery Educaon Program 39 St Albans City School Watershed Health Demonstraon Garden 40 Residenal and Private Road and Driveway Runoff Reducon 41 Watershed Wise: Watershed Alliance Teacher Training 42 Soil Savers 43

3 Lake Champlain Headwaters Environmental Issues Educator 44 Let it Rain: Soak it for Schools! 45 LCBP Website Maintenance 46 Watershed for Every Classroom Course, June 2014—May 2015 47 Pharmaceucal Disposal Pilot Project 48 Addison County River Watch Collaborave Town Outreach Campaign 49 Lake George Floang Classroom 2014 50 Educaonal Outreach for Seniors in Vermont and New York 51 CHAMPLAIN VALLEY NATIONAL HERITAGE PARTNERSHIP “A New Horse for a New Century” 52 Clinton County Civil War Record, 1861‐1865, Digital Exhibit 53 History Comes Alive! Youth Engagement in Local History through the Arts 54 John Smith Legacy Project 55 Fourth of July Civil War and War of 1812 Commemoraon 56 St. Albans Raid 150th Anniversary Educaon & Outreach Kit 57 Nulhegan Youth Drummers/Dancers 58 Trapping Boats of Lake Champlain; A Comparave Study and Survey of Cultural Arfacts 59 in Addison County, Vermont and Essex County, New York The History of the Plasburgh Barracks, Digital Exhibit 60 St. Albans Raid Walking Tour App 61 Life in Civil War Era: St. Albans, Vermont: Fall 1864 62 Intergeneraonal Expressive Arts Documenng Veteran’s Narraves at the Vermont 63 Veterans’ Home Grants Concluded ……………………………………………………… Page 64 POLLUTION PREVENTION Taylor Park Rain Gardens 65 Stormwater Reducon and Watershed Restoraon in the East Creek Watershed 66 Nutrient Management Implementaon Assistance 67 Lake Champlain Tributary Polluon Prevenon Project 68

SHORELINE HABITAT River and Shoreline Management Case Studies 69 West Brook Shoreline Remediaon Project 70 Richmond Floodplain Forest Restoraon Project Buffer Planng 71 AQUATIC INVASIVE SPECIES Water Chestnut Control in Missisquoi Naonal Wildlife Refuge 72

EDUCATION & OUTREACH Fact Sheet Series: Stormwater Friendly Driveways 73 Lake George On‐Site Rainwater Harvesng Irrigaon System Demo 74 Conservaon Correspondent 75 Living in Harmony with Streams: Educang the Public about How Streams Work 76 The Floang Classroom for the Lake George Watershed 77 Project WET and WILD Teacher Workshops 78 Science and Technology of Underwater Discovery Grant 79 Lake Champlain Restoraon Nursery Educaon Program 80 Cleaning VTs Waterways Educaon Program 81 Winooski River Paddler’s Trail Development and Public Engagement Iniave 82 Let it Rain Stormwater Migaon Program 83

Adapt NY: Understanding the Effects of Climate Change on the Adirondacks 84

4 CHAMPLAIN VALLEY NATIONAL HERITAGE PARTNERSHIP Manchester Heritage Project 85 Rabble in Arms 2014: The Aack on Fort Cassis 86 Pathways: Past and Present 87 Oer Creek Odyssey 88 Invesng in the Future by Studying the Past 89 The War of 1812: The Champlain Valley and the Conflict that Redefined North America 90 Bale of Plasburgh Commemoraon 91 The Wonders of Fly Fishing 92 Marjorie Lansing Porter Collecon Mul‐Media Project 93 Interpretaon of Lake Champlain Fisheries 94 Camp Santanoni Interpreve Guide 95 Catholic Summer School of America Digital Exhibit 96 Fire Engine Hand Pumper Folk Art 97 150th Anniversary of the Jane Sckle Quilt 98 Technical Reports……………………………………………………Page 99 Aerial Cover Crop Seeding in the Lake Champlain Basin 100 Mapping Impervious Surfaces in the Lake Champlain Basin 101 Post Tournament Release Movements of Black Bass In Lake Champlain 102

Externally Managed Contracts ………………………………Page 103 Long Term Water Quality and Biological Monitoring Project for Lake Champlain 104 Flow Gage Monitoring 105 llicit Discharge Detecon and Eliminaon 106 Lake Champlain Basin Rural Road Polluon Prevenon Technical Assistance 107 Lake Champlain Basin Agronomy Support and BMP Implementaon 108 LiDAR for Oer Creek 109 Skidder Bridge Implementaon in VT & NY 110

Staff Products ………………………………………………………..Page 111 TECHNICAL Project Iniaves 112 Quality Assurance and Data 112 Workshops and Commiees 113 Communicaons and Outreach 114 AIS Collaboraons 114‐115 AIS Management 115‐116 AIS Outreach 116 EDUCATION AND OUTREACH Champlain Basin Educaon Iniave 117 Resource Room at ECHO Lake Aquarium and Science Center 118 Meengs, Workshops and Conferences 118 Programs and Events 119 Print Publicaons (brochures, flyers, reports and other outreach materials) 120 Online/Electronic Media 120 –121 Champlain Valley Regional Heritage Partnership 121 CHAMPLAIN VALLEY NATIONAL HERITAGE PARTNERSHIP 122

5 Introducon

The Lake Champlain Basin Program received federal funding in FY 2014 from the U.S. Environmental Protecon Agency, the Great Lakes Fishery Commission, and the Naonal Park Service as well as special project funding from the Internaonal Joint Commission.

The New England Interstate Water Polluon Control Commission (NEIWPCC) manages the financial, contractual, and human resource business operaons on behalf of the LCBP Steering Commiee. LCBP Staff are employees of NEIWPCC operang from the LCBP office in Grand Isle, VT.

This summary annual report highlights LCBP projects that were in progress or concluded between October 1, 2013 and September 30, 2014. It includes both external contracts managed by LCBP, and key LCBP tasks implemented by staff during this me period. The grants, externally managed projects, technical reports, and staff products summarized here total $3,212,935.00. The match provided totals of $558,042.00.

Local grants are an important component of providing boots on the ground soluons for many Opportunies for Acon tasks. Local municipalies and watershed groups, Soil and Water Conservaon District, Natural Resource Conservaon Districts, NGOs, schools, and many other groups have been funded, not just because they request funding for good projects, but be‐ cause their grant products help the Lake Champlain Basin Program address specific tasks with‐ in Opportunies for Acon.

For further informaon about these grants, external contracts and staff work products, please contact the Lake Champlain Basin Program staff at 54 West Shore Road, Grand Isle, Vermont, 05458 or call (802) 372‐3213.

6 Grants in Progress

7 2012 Polluon Prevenon Local Implementaon Grant

Reducing Stormwater Runoff from Residenal Properes

Project Summary Organizaon: Lake Champlain International This project will introduce a water quality Contact auding and cerficaon protocol for residen‐ James Ehlers al properes in the town Shelburne, Vermont. Person: LCI will implement a community‐wide educa‐ Mailing 531 Main Street on iniave and work with parcipang prop‐ Address: Colchester, VT 05446 erty owners to reduce the negave impacts of individual residenal properes on Lake Cham‐ Phone: (802) 434-3969 plain’s water quality by promong the use of watershed best pracces, including phospho‐ E‐mail: http://mychamplain.net/contact-us rous reducon, stormwater migaon, erosion migaon, and eliminaon of animal waste, Website: http://www.mychamplain.net/ pescides, and other toxins. The program will promote the adopon of watershed friendly property pracces through the implementaon of scienfically accepted management tools and performance criteria approved by the In‐ ternaonal Water Quality Council (IWQC).

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Rain garden installed in Shelburne, VT as part of BLUE cerficaon.

NEIWPCC Code L‐2011‐023 Date Complete: OPEN Grant Amount: $23,400.00 Non‐federal Match: Total Amount: $23,400.00

8 2012 Polluon Prevenon Local Implementaon Grant

Willsboro Constructed Wetland Demonstraon Project

Project Summary Organizaon: Boquet River Association This project will evaluate the nutrients re‐ Contact Anita Deming moved from the Willsboro Wastewater Treat‐ Person: ment Plant's effluent using a wollastonite tail‐ ings substrate in a constructed wetland system, Mailing PO Box 374 establish wetland plants in the pretreatment Address: Elizabethtown, NY 12932 and treatment cells, and erect explanatory signage. If preliminary test results are sustained Phone: 518 962-4810 the terary treatment pilot project would serve as a funconing model for upgrades at other E‐mail: [email protected] point sources in the Basin. The treatment cells of the constructed wetland are clearly visible at Website: http://boquetriver.org/ the parking lot of the nearby boat launch and appropriate signage would explain what visi‐ tors see, how it works and why ulizing a local‐ ly produced mining waste benefits the environ‐ ment and the economy.

NEIWPCC Code L‐2011‐031 Date Complete: OPEN Grant Amount: $23,928.00 Non‐federal Match: Total Amount: $23,928.00 9 2013 Polluon Prevenon Local Implementaon Grant

Bio Filter and Retenon in Sheldon Spring

Project Summary Organizaon: Friends of Northern Lake Champlain This project will design and install a ered bio filter and retenon garden in Sheldon Springs Contact Denise Smith to capture parking lot and gravel runoff that Person: runs directly into the Missisquoi River. Mailing P.O. Box 58 Address: Swanton, VT 05488

Phone: (802) 355-0694 E‐mail: [email protected] Website: www.northernlakechamplain.org/

NEIWPCC Code L‐2014‐049 Date Complete: OPEN Grant Amount: $15,000.00 Non‐federal Match: $1,000.00 Total Amount: $16,000.00 10 2013 Polluon Prevenon Local Implementaon Grant

Stormwater Migaon at Palmer Court

Project Summary Organizaon: Friends of the Winooski River The Palmer Court neighborhood in Williston Contact Ann Smith was built in the 1960s and therefore predates Person: mandated stormwater controls. The cul‐de‐sac Mailing P.O. Box 777 at the end of Palmer Court receives runoff from Address: Montpelier, VT 05601 approximately ¾ acre, over half of which is im‐ pervious surface. The Williston Town‐wide Wa‐ Phone: (802) 882-8276 tershed Improvement Plan idenfied the instal‐ E‐mail: [email protected] laon of a bioretenon area in the cul‐de‐sac as Website: www.winooskiriver.org a high priority project. According to a modeling based on the Naonal Urban Runoff Program, a bioretenon area would capture 200 pounds of sediment and one pound of phosphorus per year. This project will complete the design and engineering work and complete construcon of the bioretenon area.

NEIWPCC Code L‐2014‐048 Date Complete: OPEN Grant Amount: $14,725.00 Non‐federal Match: $2,225.00 Total Amount: $16,950.00 11 2013 Polluon Prevenon Local Implementaon Grant

Mossy Point Boat Launch Stormwater Migaon Project

Project Summary Organizaon: Lake George Association This project will retrofit a 3.25 acre boat launch Contact Randy Rath area parking lot and try to capture and treat Person: stormwater runoff that is currently entering Mailing P.O. Box 408 the lake untreated. This will be done ulizing Address: several different filtering methods including; a Lake George, NY 12845 vegetated swale, rain garden(s), infiltraon bed Phone: (802) 882-8276 (s) and the use of porous pavers. E‐mail: [email protected] Website: www.lakegeorgeassociation.org

Pocket wetlands catching runoff from their first rain event post‐installaon.

NEIWPCC Code L‐2014‐010 Date Complete: Grant Amount: $15,000.00 Non‐federal Match: $5,720.00 Total Amount: $20,720.00 12 2013 Polluon Prevenon Local Implementaon Grant

Lamoille Watershed Road Erosion Assessment

Project Summary Organizaon: Lamoille County Planning Commission Accelerated erosion from roadside swales and culverts is a major contributor to water quality Contact Bonnie Waninger polluon in the Lamoille Watershed. The abun‐ Person: dance of development on steep terrain with Mailing PO Box 1637 highly erodible soils makes the road network Address: Morrisville, VT 05661 especially vulnerable to erosion. This project will assess, map and priorize road erosion are‐ as on Class 3 and 4 roads in three Lamoille Phone: (802) 888-4548 County towns so that the towns can plan to sys‐ E‐mail: [email protected] temacally upgrade them, ulmately reducing Website: www.lcpcvt.org/ sedimentaon. Simple design plans will be pre‐ pared for the highest priority sites; while more complex sites will be flagged for engineering studies. The results of the assessment, including repair designs, will be presented to and dis‐ cussed with the Towns.

NEIWPCC Code L‐2014‐035 Date Complete: OPEN Grant Amount: $12,200.00 Non‐federal Match: $4,451.00 Total Amount: $16,671.00 13 2013 Polluon Prevenon Local Implementaon Grant

Lake George Municipal De‐Icing Best Management Pracces Project

Project Summary Organizaon: LC-LG Regional Planning Board This project is a follow‐up to the Municipal De‐ Icing Best Pracces Forum that was held in Contact Walter Young Lake George in April 2013. Several municipali‐ Person: es in the Lake George Watershed expressed Mailing PO Box 765 interest in obtaining pavement temperature Address: Lake George, NY 12845 sensors, which were presented at the Forum as a means of beer controlling the use of de‐ Phone: (518) 668-5773 icing materials. This grant will purchase sen‐ E‐mail: [email protected] sors for the Towns of Dresden, Lake George and Queensbury to ulize in their de‐icing op‐ Website: www.lclgrpb.org/ eraons. The ulmate goal of this project is to determine whether new and improved equip‐ ment may improve de‐icing operaons around Lake George.

NEIWPCC Code L‐2014‐003 Date Complete: OPEN Grant Amount: $7,782.00 Non‐federal Match: $200.00 Total Amount: $7,982.00 14 2013 Polluon Prevenon Local Implementaon Grant

Watershed Stewards Rain Garden

Project Summary Organizaon: St Albans City School Contact Joan Cavallo SACS will design and implement a bioretenon Person: rain garden treatment area on our school cam‐ pus in order to migate stormwater runoff and Mailing 29 Bellows St the aendant polluon, and reduce erosion. Address: St Albans, VT 05478 The runoff originates at a parking lot that is heavily ulized by school buses. St. Albans City Phone: (802) 527-0565 School is located within the Lake Champlain E‐mail: Basin and so we are concerned with the effects [email protected] of runoff on the health of the bay and the lake. Website: sacs.fcsuvt.org/ As a K‐8 school the project will involve student help in every phase of the process, including meeng with environmental engineers, as‐ sessing the site, designing the bioretenon area, choosing the specific plants (which will be nave to northwestern Vermont), planng and maintaining the garden, and communi‐ cang about the project with various stake‐ holders, community members, and the local media. Students will also help assess the site and quanty and quality of stormwater runoff before and aer the implementaon of the bioretenon rain garden in order to quanfy effects of the treatment.

NEIWPCC Code L‐2014‐011 Date Complete: OPEN Grant Amount: $13,800.00 Non‐federal Match: $800.00 Total Amount: $14,600.00 15 2013 Polluon Prevenon Local Implementaon Grant

Increasing Cover Cropping in the St. Albans Bay Watershed

Project Summary Organizaon: University of Vermont Extension The goal of this project is to modify the current corn cropping systems in the St. Albans Bay wa‐ Contact Heather Darby tershed to improve the potenal for cover crop Person: establishment. Currently cover crops are imple‐ mented on less than 5% of the corn acreage. Mailing 278 South Main Street, This will be accomplished by establishing three Address: St. Albans, VT 05478 on‐farm demonstraons that evaluate yield and quality of short season corn compared to the Phone: (802) 524-6501 longer season variees currently being grown. E‐mail: [email protected] Aer the corn is harvested, cover crops will be sown and soil health, nutrient retenon, and Website: www.uvm.edu/extension soil erosion will be recorded.

NEIWPCC Code L‐2014‐051 Date Complete: OPEN Grant Amount: $14,993.00 Non‐federal Match: Total Amount: $14,993.00 16 2013 Polluon Prevenon Local Implementaon Grant

Warren County Erosion and Sediment Reducon Program

Project Summary Organizaon: Warren County SWCD With this project, the WCESRP will harvest and Contact Jim Lieberum plant 1,500 trees and shrubs at 2‐3 sites, re‐ Person: storing 6 acres of forested buffer in the Lake Mailing 394 Schroon River Road, Champlain Basin. Address: Warrensburg, NY 12885

Phone: (518) 623-3119 E‐mail: [email protected] Website: warrenswcd.org

Hydroseeding at West Brook in Lake George Village.

NEIWPCC Code L‐2014‐008 Date Complete: OPEN Grant Amount: $15,000.00 Non‐federal Match: $9,370.00 Total Amount: $24,370.00 17 2013 Polluon Prevenon Local Implementaon Grant

Intervale Conservaon Nursery: Planng Trees to Improve WQ

Project Summary Organizaon: Intervale Center Contact Travis Marcotte The Lake Champlain Basin Program has iden‐ Person: fied increasing the acreage of healthy forest buffers along Vermont’s rivers and streams as Mailing 180 Intervale Rd a top priority for reducing runoff from agricul‐ Address: Burlington, VT 05401 tural fields and other sources into Lake Cham‐ plain and its watershed. Since 2002, the Inter‐ Phone: (802) 882-8276 vale Conservaon Nursery has provided E‐mail: [email protected] 130,000 locally sourced nave species of Website: shrubs and trees to farmers and conservaon www.intervale.org partners to restore hundreds of acres of ripari‐ an buffers and reduce phosphorus runoff. A Polluon Prevenon grant from the LCBP will support the planng of 1,500 stems in the Lake Champlain Basin with a parcular focus in the Winooski Watershed.

Mike Ingalls of the Intervale Conservaon Nursery plants a tree along the Allen Brook in Williston as part of a LCBP funded project to reforest buffer along this impaired wa‐ terway, September 2014.

NEIWPCC Code L‐2014‐004 Date Complete: 12/30/2014 Grant Amount: $14,965.00 Non‐federal Match: Total Amount: $14,965.00 18 2013 Polluon Prevenon Local Implementaon Grant

Water Conservaon to Reduce P Inputs to Waste Water Treatment Facilies Project Summary Organizaon: Lake Champlain Committee Contact Lori Fisher LCC will reduce phosphorus inputs to waste Person: water treatment facilies through a mul‐ pronged outreach program focused on water Mailing 208 Flynn Avenue, Building 3, conservaon. Prevenng excess water uses Address: Studio 3F saves on use of zinc orthophosphate, reduces Burlington, VT 05401 treatment costs at waste water treatment facili‐ es, increases treatment efficiency, and saves Phone: (802) 658-1414 energy. LCC, with mulple partners, and through mulple venues, will promote the ben‐ E‐mail: [email protected] efits of water conservaon in order to improve Website: www.lakechamplaincommittee.org water quality in Lake Champlain

NEIWPCC Code LS‐2011‐033 Date Complete: 12/22/2014 Grant Amount: $24,025.00 Non‐federal Match: $7,462.00 Total Amount: $31,487.00 19 2012 Shoreline Habitat Local Implementaon Grant

Buffer Lake George

Project Summary Organizaon: The FUND for Lake George The FUND for Lake George has organized water Contact quality awareness commiees on Lake George, Chris Navitsky neighborhood/community groups that idenfy Person: ways to promote water quality protecon. With Mailing P.O. Box 352 this project, the FUND will manage the com‐ Address: Lake George, NY 12845 miees and landowners implementaon of 25 shoreline buffers that will be planted, main‐ Phone: (518) 668 9700 tained and evaluated for water quality impacts. The planng of shoreline buffers on Lake E‐mail: [email protected] George will stabilize soils, support infiltraon and uptake of nutrients, and reduce sediment Website: www.fundforlakegeorge.org from flowing into Lake George.

Before and aer photos of a property in Hague, NY.

NEIWPCC Code L‐2012‐022 Date Complete: OPEN Grant Amount: $10,000.00 Non‐federal Match: $10,000.00 Total Amount: $20,000.00 20 2012 Shoreline Habitat Local Implementaon Grant

Bulwagga Bay Campground Shoreline Stabilizaon Project

Project Summary Organizaon: Town of Moriah The Bulwagga Bay public beach and Contact Garret Dague campground is an invaluable recreaonal re‐ Person: source, tourist aracon and significant source of revenue for the Town of Moriah. The facility Mailing 5 Farrell Rd. is located on land arficially created from the Address: Willsboro, NY 12996 deposion of mine tailings derived from the iron mining and processing industry from the Phone: (518) 873-3452 mid‐1800’s through the mid‐1900’s in Moriah. E‐mail: The material is a fine, sandy loam that does [email protected] not readily support vegetaon growth and se‐ vere erosion has occurred over the years, re‐ Website: www.townofmoriah.com sulng in significant loss of shoreline and vege‐ taon including trees, extensive damage to campground infrastructure and hazardous condions for the general public due to the significant drop‐offs created at the shoreline. The town recently completed a feasibility study to address the problem, which recom‐ mends the construcon of stone revetments, along with soil amendments and vegetaon of upland areas to reduce erosion. With LCBP funding, the town proposes to enhance an up‐ land area with topsoil and plant nave vegeta‐ on

Shoreline protecon

NEIWPCC Code L‐2013‐013 Date Complete: OPEN Grant Amount: $9,888.00 Non‐federal Match: $4,141.00 Total Amount: $14,029.00 21 2012 Shoreline Habitat Local Implementaon Grant

Boquet River Fish Habitat Improvement

Project Summary Organizaon: Town of Willsboro The proposed project will restore and improve Contact Victor J. Putman fish habitat in the Boquet River adversely Person: affected by Tropical Storms Irene and Lee in 2011. The project will install natural rock struc‐ Mailing 5 Farrell Rd., tures in vicinity of the severely eroded stream‐ Address: Willsboro, NY 12996 bank on the north shoreline of the Boquet Riv‐ er immediately adjacent to the “pool” which Phone: (518) 963 8996 lies below the last water falls on the river, ap‐ proximately one mile upstream of Lake Cham‐ E‐mail: [email protected] plain. Boulder clusters and rock veins will pro‐ tect the restored streambank and provide Website: www.townofwillsboro.com resng pools for migrang fish as they ap‐ proach the falls and the NYS DEC fish ladder.

NEIWPCC Code L‐2013‐002 Date Complete: OPEN Grant Amount: $10,000.00 Non‐federal Match: $10,000.00 Total Amount: $20,000.00 22 2013 AIS Local Implementaon Grant

Aquac Invasive Species River Steward for the Central Champlain Region of NY

Project Summary Organizaon: Ausable River Association The River Steward will work to educate the Contact Kelley Tucker general public, visitor bureau staff, local fly Person: shops staff and customers, hotel owners, and Mailing PO Box 8, anglers/river users in order to spread the Address: Wilmington, NY 12997 “Check‐Clean‐Dry” AIS spread prevenon mes‐ sage. Educaonal brochures, cleaning staon Phone: (518) 637-6859 materials, and streamside signage will be dis‐ E‐mail: tributed. Results will be measured in number of [email protected] anglers, river users, general public, fly shop and Website: www.ausableriver.org visitor bureau staff engaged and educated as well as in fly shops and visitors bureaus visited regularly, and brochures distributed and signs posted. A survey of angler/river user AIS knowledge, river use and spread prevenon effort will be collected.

An AsRA River Steward discusses the importance of cleaning gear with an angler.

NEIWPCC Code L‐2014‐021 Date Complete: OPEN Grant Amount: $14,957.00 Non‐federal Match: $4,419.00 Total Amount: $19,376.00 23 2013 AIS Local Implementaon Grant

AIS Spread Prevenon and Early Detecon through Watershed Stewardship

Project Summary Organizaon: Lower Saranac Lake Shore Owners' Association The Shore Owners Associaon watershed stewardship program will post and profession‐ Contact Jack Drury ally supervise a boat launch steward at Second Person: Pond, Saranac River watershed. The steward Mailing 624 Lake St., posion funded by the grant will produce four Address: Saranac Lake, NY 12983 days of boat ramp stewardship and one day of educaon outreach me. The days of boat ramp coverage will be designed to ensure Phone: (518) 891-5915 weekend coverage. E‐mail: [email protected] Website: N/A

The Second Pond steward helps boaters decontami‐ nate their vessels with bilge flushing equipment.

NEIWPCC Code L‐2014‐047 Date Complete: OPEN Grant Amount: $15,000.00 Non‐federal Match: Total Amount: $15,000.00 24 2013 AIS Local Implementaon Grant

Aquac Invasive Wash Staon and Boater Survey Project

Project Summary Organizaon: Northern Forest Canoe Trail

This project has two main parts: Contact Walter Opuszynski Construcng a wash staon for paddlers that Person: will allow for washing and drying of gear and Mailing PO Box 565, paddle cra. A durable interpreve panel will Address: Waitsfield, VT 05673 be integrated into the wash staon explaining the wash and dry protocol. Phone: 802-496-2285 Surveying boaters accessing the Missisquoi E‐mail: [email protected] Naonal Wildlife Refuge to develop infor‐ maon about boater knowledge of Clean‐Drain Website: www.northernforestcanoetrail.org ‐Dry protocol and to perform outreach about aquac invasive spread prevenon.

The staon monitor distributes AIS informaonal materials at the Missisquoi NWR.

NEIWPCC Code L‐2014‐033 Date Complete: OPEN Grant Amount: $5,965.00 Non‐federal Match: $1,720.00 Total Amount: $7,685.00 25 2013 AIS Local Implementaon Grant

Invasive Species Prevenon Acvies of the Rainbow Lake Water Quality Protecon Program

Project Summary Organizaon: Rainbow Lake Association The RLA will hire 1 Paul Smith’s College Water‐ Contact Peter Geertz shed Stewardship Program (PSC WSP) steward Person: for 5 days for 15 summer weeks (June, July, Mailing 125 David Drive, August) at the boat launch in NY State Depart‐ Address: ment of Conservaon, Region 5 (NYS DEC) Poughkeepsie, NY 12601 Buck Pond Campground, located on the Rain‐ bow Lake waterway. The steward will be at the Phone: (845) 635-1215 boat launch for 4 days, the 5th day is designat‐ E‐mail: [email protected] ed for administrave work and special pro‐ Website: www.rainbowlakeassn.org jects. For July and August the RLA will provide volunteers to cover an addional day, making a total of 5 days of stewardship coverage per week in order to provide a solid defense against the introducon of invasive aquac species. The stewards will educate boaters about invasive species, especially Eurasian Wa‐ termilfoil (EWM) and Southern Naiad, inspect boats for plants, help clean off plants, advise boaters to use the boat wash and explain safe boang pracces. The RLA will provide the NYS DEC with a flier with informaon about EWM and boang safety to be given to all Buck Pond Campground boaters. RLA volunteers will also survey the shoreline of the enre waterway for EWM. The boat launch at Buck Pond Campground invites boaters and anglers to explore—without AIS in tow.

NEIWPCC Code L‐2014‐022 Date Complete: OPEN Grant Amount: $15,000.00 Non‐federal Match: $3,873.00 Total Amount: $18,873.00

26 2013 AIS Local Implementaon Grant

AIS Spread Prevenon and Early Detecon through Watershed Stewardship

Project Summary Organizaon: Shore Owners' Association of Lake Placid The WSP will post and professionally supervise a boat launch steward at Lake Placid. The 1 Contact Nicole Broderick steward posion funded by the grant will pro‐ Person: duce 4 days of boat ramp stewardship and 1 day of educaon outreach me. The days of Mailing PO Box 1235, boat ramp coverage will be divided between Address: the two locaons, opmizing weekend cover‐ Lake Placid, NY 12946 age. Phone: (518) 523-1446 E‐mail: [email protected] Website: www.lpsoa.org

Stewards greet boaters with AIS informaonal materials and a friendly smile.

NEIWPCC Code L‐2014‐037 Date Complete: OPEN Grant Amount: $15,000.00 Non‐federal Match: Total Amount: $15,000.00 27 2013 AIS Local Implementaon Grant

The Watershed Stewardship Program on the Upper Saranac Lake to Prevent the Spread of Aquac Invasive Species

Project Summary Organizaon: Upper Saranac Lake Assn

The WSP will post and professionally supervise Contact Jonathan Landsberg a boat launch steward at The NYS boat launch Person: on the northern shore of Upper Saranac Lake. Mailing PO Box 872, The 1 steward posion funded by the grant will Address: Saranac Lake, NY 12983 produce 4 days of boat ramp stewardship and 1 day of educaon outreach me. The days of Phone: (518) 891-6883 boat ramp coverage will be scheduled to pro‐ vide coverage during the periods of highest E‐mail: [email protected] boat traffic. Website: www.uppersaranac.com

A boater prepares for an AIS inspecon.

NEIWPCC Code L‐2014‐023 Date Complete: OPEN Grant Amount: $15,000.00 Non‐federal Match: Total Amount: $15,000.00 28 2013 AIS Local Implementaon Grant

AIS Spread Prevenon and Early Detecon through Watershed Stewardship

Project Summary Organizaon: Watershed Stewardship Program The WSP will post and professionally supervise a boat launch steward at Lake Flower and Sec‐ Contact Eric Holmlund ond Pond (Saranac River waterway). The 1 Person: steward posion funded by the grant will pro‐ duce 4 days of boat ramp stewardship and 1 Mailing c/o Paul Smith's College day of educaon outreach me. The days of Address: P.O. Box 265 boat ramp coverage will be divided between Paul Smiths, NY 12970 the two locaons, opmizing weekend cover‐ age. The LCBP grant‐funded steward will inter‐ Phone: (518) 327-6341 act with all visitors during their shis and in‐ E‐mail: spect boats both entering and leaving the wa‐ [email protected] terways, removing plant and animal frag‐ Website: www.adkwatershed.org ments. Each of these waterways is well known and aracts visitors from across the Northeast. The data entry day will be used as needed for entering data into Excel databases and con‐ ducng educaon outreach or related projects that will benefit watershed health and be con‐ fined to the Lake Champlain Basin.

Small boats such as canoes and kayaks pose a threat as sources of AIS spread.

NEIWPCC Code L‐2014‐026 Date Complete: OPEN Grant Amount: $15,000.00 Non‐federal Match: Total Amount: $15,000.00 29 2013 AIS Local Implementaon Grant

Lois McClure 2014 Tour – Aquac Invasive Species Spread Prevenon Educaon

Project Summary Organizaon: Lake Champlain Maritime Museum LCMM proposes to use the canal schooner Lois McClure to engage the public in an orientaon Contact Erick Tichonuk to the concept of invasive species, the role Person: that the region’s waterways have played as conduits to their spread, and taccs to prevent Mailing 4472 Basin Harbor Rd., further spread. This program will be presented Address: Vergennes, VT 05491 in 30 stops to ports throughout Vermont, New York and Canada over the Lois McClure’s 2014 Phone: (802) 475-2022 educaonal tour. We will deliver educaonal E‐mail: [email protected] materials and speak to approximately 20,000 people over four months. Website: www.lcmm.org

The canal schooner Lois McClure carries the AIS spread prevenon message on its journeys throughout the region.

NEIWPCC Code L‐2014‐028 Date Complete: Grant Amount: $15,000.00 Non‐federal Match: Total Amount: $15,000.00 30 2013 AIS Local Implementaon Grant

Boat Access Greeter Program

Project Summary Organizaon: Lake Dunmore/Fern Lake Association This grant will be used to fund a boat access greeter and invasive species educaon pro‐ Contact Allen Wilson gram at the Lake Dunmore and Fern Lake boat Person: access locaons and through mailings to lake‐ Mailing PO Box 14, front property owners. The program will have Address: Salisbury, VT 05769 two components. The first will be complimen‐ tary courtesy inspecons of boats and trailers. The second component will be the distribuon Phone: 802-483-2269 of educaonal materials to lake users. This will E‐mail: [email protected] include people at the boat access area as well Website: www.ldfla.com as lake homeowners for their educaon and distribuon to their tenants.

Eurasian water milfoil populaon control is a focus of the Lake Dunmore program. Here milfoil is removed with a sucon harvester.

NEIWPCC Code L‐2014‐030 Date Complete: Grant Amount: $12,040.00 Non‐federal Match: Total Amount: $12,040.00 31 2010 Educaon & Outreach Local Implementaon Grant

Bilingual Boang Publicaon

Project Summary Organizaon: Lake Champlain Committee The Lake Champlain Commiee will update and expand its bilingual boang publicaon for Contact Lori Fisher distribuon to Lake Champlain boaters. The Person: publicaon will provide "best management Mailing 208 Flynn Avenue, Building 3, pracces" for boaters covering everything Address: Studio 3F from low polluon marine engines to fueling Burlington, VT 05401 guidance to greywater disposal and invasive species spread prevenon in an accessible for‐ mat. The publicaon will be distributed Phone: (802) 658-1414 through a wide variety of user networks includ‐ E‐mail: [email protected] ing New York, Vermont and Quebec marinas, Website: www.lakechamplaincommittee.org boang businesses, New York and Vermont marine enforcement and environmental agen‐ cies. The bilingual boaters' manual will educate the boang public on current environmental and safety rules and regulaons, provide guid‐ ance on environmentally sound boat mainte‐ nance pracces, update boaters on current lake issues, and foster good stewardship.

NEIWPCC Code LS‐2013.006 Date Complete: OPEN Grant Amount: $7,500.00 Non‐federal Match: $7,500.00 Total Amount: $15,000.00 32 2013 Educaon & Outreach Local Implementaon Grant

Engaging Public Audiences in Immersive Watershed Technologies

Project Summary Organizaon: ECHO This project will combine the “wow” factor of Contact Molly Loomis ECHO’s new immersive watershed educaon Person: technologies with the broad impact of ECHO’s ongoing Conservaon Correspondent program Mailing 1 College St to inform and movate Basin residents to ad‐ Address: Burlington, VT 05401 dress Lake Champlain issues. The Conservaon Correspondent will connue to deliver steward‐ Phone: (802) 658-1848 ship messages to over 200,000 TV viewers each E‐mail: [email protected] year on WPTZ News Channel 5’s evening broad‐ Website: http://www.echovermont.org cast. ECHO will deepen the impact of these news segments by developing hands on acvi‐ es for ECHO’s 150,000 annual visitors that ex‐ pose adults and school children to new immer‐ sive technologies, real Lake Champlain data, and opportunies to engage in stewardship in their communies. The project will produce 10 wa‐ tershed news segments, to be aired on WPTZ News Channel 5’s nightly news and 10 hands on acvies.

Conservaon Correspondent Bridget Butler reports on impassable culverts for WPTZ.

NEIWPCC Code L‐2014‐043 Date Complete: OPEN Grant Amount: $4,000.00 Non‐federal Match: $4,000.00 Total Amount: $8,000.00 33 2013 Educaon & Outreach Local Implementaon Grant

Essex County Watershed Protecon Educaon Program

Project Summary Organizaon: Essex County SWCD The Essex County Stream Educaon Program Contact Tiffany Pinheiro helps educate landowners, municipalies, Person: teachers and student across Essex County Mailing PO Box 407, Towns about watershed management. The Address: project will purchase an Enviroscape model for Westport, NY 12993 the District that will be available by the Water Phone: (518) 962-8225 Quality coordinang Commiee and local schools. The project will also purchase supplies E‐mail: [email protected] for two workshops which the district will host. Website: www.essexcountyswcd.org There will be a Stream Restoraon workshop for municipalies and River associaons along with Project WET training for local teachers. Both have been in great demand and needed aer the past few years we have had locally with flooding issues.

The Enviroscape model provides students a hands‐on opportunity to learn about watershed processes.

NEIWPCC Code L‐2014‐032 Date Complete: OPEN Grant Amount: $5,500.00 Non‐federal Match: $3,200.00 Total Amount: $8,700.00 34 2013 Educaon & Outreach Local Implementaon Grant

Residenal Stormwater Educaon and Technical Assistance Program

Project Summary Organizaon: Friends of the Winooski River This program will educate residenal landown‐ Contact Ann Smith ers on the negave impact of stormwater on Person: waterways and acons they can take to reduce Mailing PO Box 777 runoff and the associated pollutants. The pro‐ Address: gram includes a technical assistance compo‐ Montpelier, VT 05601 nent to develop site specific soluons. It will Phone: (802) 588-8276 focus on Williston and the village/developed porons of Richmond, Jericho, Hunngton and E‐mail: [email protected] Bolton. Website: www.winooskiriver.org

Newly armed with stormwater management knowledge, homeowners construct a rain garden.

NEIWPCC Code 2L‐2014‐019 Date Complete: OPEN Grant Amount: $6,000.00 Non‐federal Match: Total Amount: $6,000.00 35 2013 Educaon & Outreach Local Implementaon Grant

Floang Classrooms

Project Summary Organizaon: Lake Champlain Community Sailing Center The Floang Classroom connects students to the lake with sailing, teamwork and hands‐on Contact Ryan Robinson environmental educaon. This program part‐ Person: ners with schools in the Champlain Valley, Mailing PO Box 64818 providing curriculum aligned with Vermont Address: Burlington, VT 05406 state standards, and learning experiences tai‐ lored to the specific needs of each group of Phone: (802) 864-2499 learners. Areas of study include: watersheds E‐mail: [email protected] and sources of polluon; the effect of air pres‐ sure on wind, weather and sails; and lake Website: www.communitysailingcenter.org health assessment via water tesng. Students will demonstrate understanding of STEM (Science, Technology, Engineering, and Math) principles, and express a desire in lake recrea‐ on and stewardship of Lake Champlain.

Students learn the ropes of sailing, science, and wa‐ tershed stewardship.

NEIWPCC Code L‐2014‐044 Date Complete: OPEN Grant Amount: $6,000.00 Non‐federal Match: $6,000.00 Total Amount: $12,000.00 36 2013 Educaon & Outreach Local Implementaon Grant

Municipal De‐Icing Best Management Pracces Outreach Program

Project Summary Organizaon: Lake Champlain –Lake George RPB This program aims at connuing winter road maintenance educaon for local municipali‐ Contact Beth Gilles es. Local Official Workshops will be held to Person: educate decision makers on improved BMPs, Mailing PO Box 765 Equipment Calibraon Workshops will be held Address: to educate DPW Spreader Crews on proper de‐ Lake George, NY 12845 icing materials spreading and Winter Road Maintenance Policies will be wrien to ensure Phone: (518) 668-5773 uniform winter maintenance acvies E‐mail: [email protected] throughout a municipality. Website: www.lclgrpb.org

NEIWPCC Code L‐2014‐012 Date Complete: OPEN Grant Amount: $6,000.00 Non‐federal Match: $2,400.00 Total Amount: $8,400.00 37 2013 Educaon & Outreach Local Implementaon Grant

Bugworks 2014

Project Summary Organizaon: Missisquoi River Basin Association Bugworks is a hands‐on program for students in grades 5‐6 to explore the aquac ecosys‐ Contact Alisha Sawyer tems around them. The MRBA hires an educa‐ Person: tor to teach students in the Missisquoi water‐ shed about the natural, living world of the riv‐ Mailing 9534 Route 36, Unit 5 ers, ponds, and streams within their communi‐ Address: ty. They then learn about how to evaluate East Fairfield, VT 05448 stream health. The program is tailored to the Phone: (802) 827-3360 me and needs of parcipang teachers and typically involves both indoor and outdoor ac‐ E‐mail: [email protected] vies. At the conclusion of the program stu‐ Website: troutrivernetwork.org/mrba/ dents are expected to produce a report spe‐ index.html cific to their educaonal level. Bugworks meets Vermont Power Standards, which are a set of state standards deemed crical for stu‐ dent success. By the end of June 2014, the MRBA will have offered the Bugworks program to the 5 and 6th grade teachers of all 14 ele‐ mentary schools and aer school programs within the watershed. We ancipate 10 – 20 classrooms will parcipate in the 2014 Bug‐ works program.

Students collect macro‐invertebrates as they learn about stream health.

NEIWPCC Code L‐2014‐017 Date Complete: OPEN Grant Amount: $4,745.00 Non‐federal Match: $1,290.00 Total Amount: $6,035.00 38 2013 Educaon & Outreach Local Implementaon Grant

Lake Champlain Nave Plant Restoraon Nursery Educaon Program

Project Summary Organizaon: Poultney-Mettowee NRCD The goal of this project is to provide an oppor‐ Contact Hilary Solomon tunity for the public to learn about the bene‐ Person: fits of planng nave plant species and the Mailing PO Box 209 increased concern about the spread of non‐ Address: nave invasive species. The outcomes of this Poultney, VT 05764 project include direct educaonal program‐ ming for 400‐500 youth, compleon of the Phone: current “Plant 1000 Trees” iniave in the wa‐ E‐mail: [email protected] tershed, two open house and plant sale events Website: at the nursery, the District will staff booths at 4 www.pmnrcd.org municipal events, 60‐70 GMC students will gain first hand skills in seed collecon, propa‐ gaon, transplanng, developing educaonal programs, collaboraon, and markeng.

NEIWPCC Code L‐2014‐015 Date Complete: OPEN Grant Amount: $5,000.00 Non‐federal Match: Total Amount: $5,000.00 39 2013 Educaon & Outreach Local Implementaon Grant

St Albans City School Watershed Health Demonstraon Garden

Project Summary Organizaon: St Albans City School This project will help staff plant nave hydro‐ Contact Joan Cavallo philic trees and shrubs and install educaonal Person: signage to inform St. Albans City School stu‐ Mailing 29 Bellows St dents ‐ and the St. Albans community ‐ about Address: watershed health and strategies for migang St Albans, VT 05478 the effects of land development on water flow and quality. Funds to help purchase tools for Phone: (802) 527-0565 students to measure site, soil, and water quali‐ E‐mail: [email protected] ty in order to analyze the effects of water treat‐ Website: ment. The project will enhance student and sacs.fcsuvt.org community member awareness of wastewater treatment, watershed health, and environmen‐ tal stewardship.

NEIWPCC Code L‐2014‐016 Date Complete: OPEN Grant Amount: $6,670.00 Non‐federal Match: Total Amount: $6,670.00 40 2013 Educaon & Outreach Local Implementaon Grant

Residenal and Private Road and Driveway Runoff Reducon

Project Summary Organizaon: Town of Calais Due to the rate of land conversion from agri‐ Contact Noreen Bryan culture or forest to residenal, rural storm‐ Person: water, whether in the village centers or more Mailing 3120 Pekin Brook Road rural sengs, is being recognized as a concern. Address: Road infrastructure has been noted as a parc‐ East Calais, Vermont, 05650 ular issue. This project will focus reducing ero‐ sion and runoff from private property, parcu‐ Phone: (802) 456-8720 larly private roads and driveways. The target E‐mail: [email protected] area is the watersheds of the North and Kings‐ bury Branches (all of Calais and Worcester; and Website: www.calaisvermont.gov significant porons of Woodbury, East Mont‐ pelier and Middlesex). The Town of Calais, through its Lakes and Stream Commiee (CLSC) will partner with neighboring communi‐ es and the Friends of the Winooski River (the Friends) to educate landowners about the road runoff issue and provide landowners with in‐ formaon as to how to correct problems.

NEIWPCC Code L‐2014‐058 Date Complete: OPEN Grant Amount: $6,200.00 Non‐federal Match: Total Amount: $6,200.00 41 2013 Educaon & Outreach Local Implementaon Grant

Watershed Wise: Watershed Alliance Teacher Training

Project Summary Organizaon: University of Vermont Watershed Wise: Watershed Alliance Teacher Contact Erin De Vries Training is a professional development experi‐ Person: ence for Lake Champlain Basin educators that Mailing 85 So. Prospect St., 340 are using or want to use UVM WA curriculum Address: to teach watershed health and promote envi‐ Burlington, VT 05405 ronmental literacy. The teacher trainings will Phone: 802-859-3086 be held in three locaons throughout the basin and integrate local watershed knowledge, E‐mail: [email protected] place‐based, hands‐on acvies and field work Website: www.uvm.edu/watershed/ to equip teachers with the tools and skills nec‐ home-page essary to implement UVM Watershed Alliance educaon programs in their classroom. A Wa‐ tershed Wise: Watershed Alliance Educator Handbook will be produced as part of the training which will be transferable to class‐ rooms in and outside of the Lake Champlain Basin.

NEIWPCC Code L‐2014‐034 Date Complete: OPEN Grant Amount: $6,000.00 Non‐federal Match: $1,210.00 Total Amount: $7,210.00 42 2013 Educaon & Outreach Local Implementaon Grant

Soil Savers

Project Summary Organizaon: Warren County SWCD Contact Nick Rowell Person: This educaon and outreach project will focus on expanding the understanding of the signifi‐ Mailing 394 Schroon River Rd, cant role that soil plays in all aspects of life. The Address: Warrensburg, NY 12885 program will join together elements of soil sci‐ ence, environmental quality, agricultural acvi‐ Phone: (518) 623-3119 es, urban impacts and soil health and improve‐ E‐mail: [email protected] ment. The intended audience will be high school students, landowners and local govern‐ Website: warrenswcd.org ment officials. District staff will work to improve local scores in the "soils" category for local stu‐ dents parcipang in the New York Envirothon. Acvies will include compleng soil profiles with students, developing soil curriculum mate‐ rials with Envirothon teachers, and hosng ex‐ hibits.

Students dig into Soil Bug Bins .

NEIWPCC Code L2014‐042 Date Complete: OPEN Grant Amount: $5,600.00 Non‐federal Match: $5,000.00 Total Amount: $10,6000.00 43 2013 Educaon & Outreach Local Implementaon Grant

Lake Champlain Headwaters Environmental Issues Educator

Project Summary Organizaon: Watershed Stewardship Program The Lake Champlain Headwaters Environmental Issues Educator will design and deliver struc‐ Contact Eric Holmlund tured educaonal programming and interpreta‐ Person: on for patrons of the Paul Smith’s Visitor In‐ terpreve Center and for public venues in the headwaters of the Saranac River. Programs will Mailing c/o Paul Smith's College occur at state campgrounds, public libraries, Address: PO Box 265, public events, summer camps, and school pro‐ Paul Smiths, NY 12970 grams in the Saranac Lake‐Lake Placid region. Wrien lesson plans, aendance counts and program evaluaons will be included in the fi‐ Phone: (518) 327-6341 nal report. E‐mail: [email protected] Website: www.adkwatershed.org

NEIWPCC Code L‐2014‐046 Date Complete: OPEN Grant Amount: $4,000.00

Non‐federal Match: Total Amount: $4,000.00

44 2013 Educaon & Outreach Local Implementaon Grant

Let it Rain: Soak it for Schools!

Project Summary Organizaon: Winooski NRCD The Let it Rain: Soak it for Schools! Program is a Contact Sophie Sauve result of a growing need to both foster chil‐ Person: dren’s awareness about stormwater issues and Mailing to increase the number of green stormwater 617 Comstock, Ste 1 infrastructure installaons on school campuses Address: Berlin, VT 05602 throughout the Lake Champlain Basin. The Phone: (802) 828-4493 demonstrated success of the first years of the Let it Rain Stormwater Migaon Program be‐ E‐mail: [email protected] gins to addresses concerns of runoff, specifically Website: winooskinrcd.org in urban areas, but further adopon is needed. By developing materials for children, we will be reaching a new audience and encourage hands‐ on invesgaons that can lead to addional demonstraon sites frequented by a large num‐ ber of people on a daily basis. WNRCD staff will develop a "toolbox" for stormwater issues which will be used by schools to design and im‐ plement the stormwater migaon projects.

Students work on a rain garden construcon project.

NEIWPCC Code L‐2014‐036 Date Complete: OPEN Grant Amount: $7,470.00 Non‐federal Match: Total Amount: $7,470.00 45 2013 Educaon & Outreach

LCBP Website Maintenance

Project Summary Organizaon: Taylor Design

Taylor Design redesigned and redeveloped Contact Daniel Taylor LCBP’s website in 2013 and connues to pro‐ Person: vide services and support in implemenng new Mailing 247 Main St, 2nd Floor content and components on the site. In Fiscal Address: Stamford, CT 06901 Year 2014, TD developed a new meline of Basin history, a new events and acvies cal‐ Phone: (203) 969-7200 endar tool, and an updated Casin’ the Basin e‐ E‐mail: newsleer template. TD developed recom‐ [email protected] mendaons to improve search engine opmi‐ Website: www.taylordesign.com zaon in an effort to drive more traffic to the site, and also iniated the redesign of the Lake Champlain Basin Atlas. TD connues to provide maintenance support for the site, including upgrades and migraon to new hosts, plug‐ins and plaorms.

NEIWPCC Code L‐2013‐020 Date Complete: OPEN Grant Amount: $29,028.33 Non‐federal Match: Total Amount: $29,028.33

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Watershed for Every Classroom Course, June 2014‐May 2015

Project Summary Organizaon: Amy Demarest Amy Demarest will serve as the primary in‐ Contact Amy Demarest structor of record through St. Michael’s Col‐ Person: lege in Colchester, Vermont for the Watershed Mailing 16 Wilson St for Every Classroom course 2014‐2015. The Address: Watershed for Every Classroom Course, now in Burlington, VT 05401 its fih iteraon, may be taken for credit or Phone: (802) 865-3739 not. Five graduate credits are available through St. Michael’s College. Ten or more E‐mail: [email protected] parcipants are expected in 2014‐2015 with Website: the majority half taking the course for credit. The course is taught cooperavely with the partners of the Champlain Basin Educaon Iniave. Educators will travel through New York, Ver‐ mont and Quebec to experience the water‐ shed first hand. They will meet with field biolo‐ gists, natural resource specialists, economic leaders from several fields, and explore the cultural heritage and natural resources of the watershed. They will paddle, tour industries, row long boats, assist with habitat restoraon projects, study phenology, incorporate their learning into curriculum materials and use Amy Demarest addresses parcipants at CBEI’s World technology to complete several assignments. Water Day Celebraon. Their end product will be personalized, teacha‐ ble units on watersheds.

NEIWPCC Code L‐2014‐063 Date Complete: OPEN Grant Amount: $6,000.00 Non‐federal Match: Total Amount: $6,000.00 47 2013 Educaon & Outreach Local Implementaon Grant

Pharmaceucal Disposal Pilot Project

Project Summary Organizaon: Lake Champlain Committee

Our pharmaceucal disposal pilot project will Contact Lori Fisher produce an educaon and outreach campaign Person: about proper disposal of unwanted medica‐ ons that will include a list serve for network‐ Mailing 208 Flynn Ave, Bldg 3, Studio 3F, ing, press release, separate rack cards for Address: Burlington, VT 05401 pharmacies and Humane Sociees, a newspa‐ per column, web pages, and a cable‐TV pro‐ Phone: (802) 658-1414 gram to raise awareness and foster posive E‐mail: [email protected] behavior change. Website: Www.lakechamplaincommittee.org

NEIWPCC Code L‐2014‐027 Date Complete: OPEN Grant Amount: $7,500.00 Non‐federal Match: $8,570.00 Total Amount: $16,070.00 48 2013 Educaon & Outreach Local Implementaon Grant

Addison County River Watch Collaborave Town Outreach Campaign

Project Summary Organizaon: Lewis Creek Association This grant will be used to ratchet up outreach Contact Matt Witten to town boards, especially Conservaon Com‐ Person: missions, to increase Addison County towns’ Mailing awareness of the vital role that cizen acon 442 Lewis Creek Rd, plays in protecng our streams and rivers, and Address: Charlotte, VT 05445 to solicit their feedback on a variety of issues Phone: (802) 434-3236 and projects pertaining to local water quality. A presentaon and a project menu will be cre‐ E‐mail: [email protected] ated both of which will be taken on the road Website: www.lewiscreek.org over the following months to 6‐8 Addison County town Conservaon Commissions, Plan‐ ning Commissions and Selectboards.

NEIWPCC Code L‐2014‐014 Date Complete: OPEN Grant Amount: $2,693.00 Non‐federal Match: $1,458.00 Total Amount: $4,151.00 49 2013 Educaon & Outreach Local Implementaon Grant

Lake George Floang Classroom 2014

Project Summary Organizaon: Lake George Association In 2014, 2,415 parcipants were able to expe‐ Contact Kristen Rohne rience the Floang Classroom program. The Person: majority of parcipants were students; howev‐ er the program sll saw 605 adult parcipants. Mailing PO Box 408 Address: Lake George, NY 12945 The Floang Classroom held its first program for students on May 12, 2014. The spring sea‐ Phone: (518) 668-3558 son (May‐June) included 15 different school E‐mail: [email protected] districts, with 10 returning schools and 5 schools new to the program. A total of 47 Website: www.lakegeorgeassociation.org Floang Classroom programs were conducted in the Spring with a total of 1,115 parcipants.

Summer Floang Classroom programs were mostly compromised of public programs, where anybody interested could sign up and take part. A total of 28 Floang Classroom pro‐ grams were conducted during the Summer with a total of 642 parcipants.

The 2014 Floang Classroom program season finished up a successful year with a fall season (September‐October) full of acvity. There were 11 returning schools and 3 new schools that took part. At total of 32 Floang Class‐ room programs were conducted in the Fall The Rosalia Anna Ashy, the Lake George Associaon’s with a total of 658 parcipants. Floang Classroom.

NEIWPCC Code L‐2014‐031 Date Complete: 12/18/14 Grant Amount: $7,500.00 Non‐federal Match: Total Amount: $7,500.00 50 2013 Educaon & Outreach Local Implementaon Grant

Educaonal Outreach for Seniors in Vermont and New York

Project Summary Organizaon: Lake Champlain Maritime Museum Lake Champlain Marime Museum’s mission is to preserve and share the history and heritage Contact Sarah Judd of Lake Champlain and its region. LCMM ac‐ Person: complishes this mission on and off our campus though interacve exhibits, programs, lecture Mailing 4472 Basin Harbor Rd series, on‐water educaon, and school pro‐ Address: grams. The programs engage hundreds of peo‐ Vergennes, VT 05491 ple per year, both on and off our campus. Phone: (802) 475-2022 We receive many requests from Vermont sen‐ E‐mail: [email protected] ior groups, libraries, book clubs, and historical sociees for lectures and presentaons on lake Website: http://www.lcmm.org/ ecology, historically significant events, Lake Champlain’s shipwrecks, and the people who helped shape life in the Champlain Basin. Many of these requests come from senior ci‐ zen assisted living facilies whose residents have mobility and transportaon issues that prevent them from vising our campus, and from senior groups that have limited or no funding available for educaonal programs. In an effort to make our programs more accessi‐ ble to seniors in Vermont and upstate New York, we provided an outreach series of 10 educaonal lectures to assisted living facilies, providers, clubs and organizaons at no cost. The lectures took place between March and August 2014. We reached out to assisted living facilies, social groups and providers in Ver‐ mont and New York, parcularly those that had no budget for extra programming, to let them know about the availability of the lecture series. LCMM historians and archaeologists NEIWPCC Code L‐2014‐045 traveled to eleven facilies/sites over the grant period to make presentaons. Date Complete: 10/21/14 Grant Amount: $4,000.00 Non‐federal Match: Total Amount: $4,000.00 51 2014 CVNHP Commemoraon Grant “A New Horse for a New Country”

Project Summary Organizaon: Bronx County Historical Society This project is a 10 minute documentary film on the exploits of the First Vermont Cavalry Contact Douglas Lazarus and its use of the Morgan Horse during the Person: Civil War. This segment will be available to Mailing 3309 Bainbridge Ave Vermont schools, The UVM Morgan Horse Address: Farm, The Naonal Museum of The Morgan The Bronx, NY 10467 Horse and online via the Internet to markeng and tourism organizaons. It will also be a seg‐ Phone: (718) 881-8900 ment in a longer film about the role of the Morgan Horse in the building of America. E‐mail: administration @bronxhistoricalsociety.org Website: www.bronxhistoricalsociety.org

NEIWPCC Code L‐2014‐039 Date Complete: Open Grant Amount: $4,600.00 Non‐federal Match: $0.00 Total Amount: $4,600.00 52 2014 CVNHP Commemoraon Grant Clinton County Civil War Record, 1861‐1865, Digital Exhibit

Project Summary Organizaon: Clinton County Historical Assn

The CCHA’s Civil War sesquicentennial com‐ Contact Melissa Peck miee proposes to create a digital exhibit that Person: will highlight the impact of the Civil War on Clinton County. Resources from the CCHA’s Mailing 98 Ohio Ave collecons (photographs, leers, swords, uni‐ Address: Plattsburgh, NY 12910 forms etc.) will be digized and ulized as sources for the exhibit. The digital exhibit will Phone: (518) 561-0340 not only be available to Museum visitors and accessed on site with a touchscreen display, it E‐mail: [email protected] will also be based on the Museum’s website available for researchers worldwide. This ex‐ Website: hibit will be interacve and engaging for the www.clintoncountyhistorical.org Museum’s audience and will allow for the dis‐ play of the large number of collecons objects that CCHA houses that would otherwise be inaccessible to the public (without arranging a private viewing). The exhibit will not only serve the public but will also be used as a plaorm for new research. Another poron of the grant funds will be used to fund the publishing of a book assembled by the commiee that lists over 5,200 Civil War soldiers who either enlist‐ ed and/or are buried in Clinton County.

NEIWPCC Code L‐2014‐025 Date Complete: Open Grant Amount: $5,000.00 Non‐federal Match: $4,253.00 Total Amount: $9,253.00

53 2014 CVNHP Commemoraon Grant History Comes Alive! Youth Engagement in Local History through the Arts

Project Summary Organizaon: Flynn Center For over ten years, the Flynn Center has inter‐ Contact Gina Haddock woven youth engagement, the study of local Person: history and heritage and creave, dramac self ‐expression through its signature History Mailing 153 Main St Comes Alive! program. In partnership with the Address: Burlington, VT 05401 Shelburne Museum, the Ethan Allen Home‐ stead, Shelburne Farms and the Rokeby Muse‐ Phone: (802) 652-4500 um, we have offered a youth summer program in which youth spend a week learning about E‐mail: [email protected] and dramazing the lives of people from a par‐ cular era of me in Vermont. Through im‐ provisaon, students develop real and ficonal Website: www.flynncenter.org/ costumed characters who respond to the chal‐ lenges of the me, a process that augments understanding of and passion for history. We are looking for support to underwrite this work while expanding into two rural communies in Addison and Grand Isle Counes as part of our Rural Arts Literacy Iniave with Robinson and Folsom Schools in 2014‐2015. In parcular, we would like to have the students create a fin‐ ished product that documents some aspect of local history that could be used in classrooms throughout the region to help teach that mo‐ ment in history and perhaps light a spark for other youth to become acvely engaged in the retelling of historical eras through theater or dance.

NEIWPCC Code L‐2014‐068 Date Complete: Open Grant Amount: $5,000.00 Non‐federal Match: $3,890.00 Total Amount: $8,890.00 54 2014 CVNHP Commemoraon Grant John Smith Legacy Project

Project Summary Organizaon: Friends of Northern Lake Champlain Friends of Northern Lake Champlain will devel‐ Contact Denise Smith op a historical legacy tour with wayside exhib‐ Person: its in St. Albans, highlighng significant histori‐ cal sites relang to the life of Governor John Mailing PO Box 58 Smith, to correspond with the 2014 re‐ Address: Swanton, VT 05488 enactment of the St. Albans Raid. Phone: ((802) 355-0694

E‐mail: [email protected]

Website: www.northernlakechamplain.org

NEIWPCC Code L‐2014‐020 Date Complete: Open Grant Amount: $5,000.00 Non‐federal Match: $1,000.00 Total Amount: $6,000.00 55 2014 CVNHP Commemoraon Grant Fourth of July Civil War and War of 1812 Commemoraon

Project Summary Organizaon: The event, held on July 4, 2014, will feature the interpreve presentaon. The event will Contact John O’Keefe include re‐enactors that will serve as the Color Person: Guard during the Naonal Anthem (live perfor‐ Mailing 6039 Main St mance) and provide two gun volleys during Address: The Overture of 1812, the grand finale of the Manchester Center, VT 05255 20‐minute computer‐choreographed firework Phone: ((802) 362-131 presentaon that immediately transions from the interpreve presentaon. This presenta‐ E‐mail: [email protected] on will be captured digitally for preservaon and replay throughout the Champlain Valley Website: Naonal Heritage Partner region. manchester-vt.gov

NEIWPCC Code L‐2014‐064 Date Complete: Open Grant Amount: $2,500.00 Non‐federal Match: $2,500.00 Total Amount: $5,000.00 56 2014 CVNHP Commemoraon Grant St. Albans Raid 150th Anniversary Educaon & Outreach Kit

Project Summary Organi‐ St Albans Historical Society and- zaon: Museum The Saint Albans Raid 150th Anniversary Edu‐ caon & Outreach Kit is a project that will en‐ Contact Alex Lehning hance student learning through the research, Person: development, and creaon of a toolkit for Mu‐ seum educators. It will contain acvies, repli‐ Mailing PO Box 722 cas of arfacts, and copies of primary source Address: St Albans, VT 05478 materials. In commemoraon of the sesqui‐ centennial of the Civil War, this “hands‐on” Phone: (802) 527-7933 approach will allow for original research and interpretaon. The Museum plans to bring E‐mail: [email protected] local history to life for students of all ages in Franklin County and throughout Vermont. Web‐ www.stamuseum.org site:

NEIWPCC Code L‐2014‐056 Date Complete: Open Grant Amount: $5,000.00 Non‐federal Match: $3,550.00 Total Amount: $8,550.00 57 2014 CVNHP Local Heritage Grant Nulhegan Youth Drummers/Dancers

Project Summary Organizaon: Abenakis Helping Abenakis Students in the local community will research Contact Lucy Neel and learn the ways of their heritage. The stu‐ Person: dents range from ages seven to fourteen. They learn songs of the Abenaki ancestors and Mailing 308 Union St, Stuie 1 bring the heritage to the people of the com‐ Address: Newport, VT 05855 munity. The students will share Abenaki herit‐ age to area schools and community events to Phone: (802) 487-9340 share who the Abenaki people are today. The E‐mail: students will also parcipate in such events as [email protected] the Marime Museum Day and Honoring Na‐ ve Ways in North Hero, Vermont, and may Website: parcipate with ECHO. The students will have the opportunity to aend events with Missisquoi in Swanton in conjuncon with the Circle of Courage.

NEIWPCC Code L‐2014‐054 Date Complete: Open Grant Amount: $2,500.00 Non‐federal Match: $0.00 Total Amount: $2,500.00 58 2014 CVNHP Local Heritage Grant Trapping Boats of Lake Champlain; A Comparave Study and Survey of Cultural Arfacts in Addison County, Vermont and Essex County, New York

Project Summary Organizaon: The Henry Sheldon Museum Unl the 1980’s, trapping was an important Contact Douglas Brooks economic acvity throughout the Lake Cham‐ Person: plain Region. Boats were integral to this acvi‐ ty and research to date has shown that many if Mailing 1 Park St not most of these boats were built by the trap‐ Address: Middlebury, VT 05753 pers themselves. The result was the develop‐ Phone: ment of a boat type specific to trapping and (802) 877-3289 the local waters, designed, refined and built by E‐mail: douglasbrooksboatbuild- amateur crasmen. This project will engage students in documenng two types of these [email protected] boats ‐ in Vermont and New York ‐ through Website: www.henrysheldonmuseum.org first‐person interviews, research, and the repli‐ caon of historic trapping boats, all in an effort to expose the students to the interplay of envi‐ ronment, economics, and cra that character‐ ize the culture of Lake Champlain.

NEIWPCC Code L‐2014‐071 Date Complete: Open Grant Amount: $4,900.00 Non‐federal Match: $6,200.00 Total Amount: $11,000.00

59 2014 CVNHP Local Heritage Grant The History of the Plasburgh Barracks, Digital Exhibit

Project Summary Organizaon: Clinton County Historical Assn The CCHA will partner with local Museum Con‐ Contact Melissa Peck sultant, Jan McCormick and the Junior Docent Person: youth group to create a digital exhibit that will highlight the military history of the Plasburgh Mailing 98 Ohio Ave Barracks. Junior docents will be responsible for Address: Plattsburgh, NY 12910 researching the individual buildings on the base to create “exhibit labels” for the digital Phone: (518) 561-0340 exhibit. Resources from the CCHA’s collecons (photographs, documents, texles, etc.) will be E‐mail: [email protected] digized by SUNY Plasburgh Intern and u‐ lized as other research sources for the exhibit. The digital exhibit will not only be available to Website: www.clintoncountyhistorical.org Museum visitors and accessed on site with a touchscreen display, it will also be based on the Museum’s website available for research‐ ers worldwide. It will be interacve and en‐ gaging for the Museum’s audience and will allow for the display of the large number of collecons objects that CCHA houses that would otherwise be inaccessible to the public (without arranging a private viewing). This ex‐ hibit will not only serve the public but will also be used as a plaorm for new research.

NEIWPCC Code L‐2014‐054 Date Complete: Open Grant Amount: $2,500.00 Non‐federal Match: $5,303.00 Total Amount: $7,803.00 60 2014 CVNHP Local Heritage Grant St. Albans Raid Walking Tour App

Project Summary Organi‐ St Albans Historical Society and- zaon: Museum The Saint Albans Raid Walking Tour App is a collaboraon between the St. Albans Historical Contact Alex Lehning Society & Museum and local high school stu‐ Person: dents from Bellows Free Academy, St. Albans. In partnership with the Social Studies Depart‐ Mailing PO Box 722 ment, the Museum will host a series of work‐ Address: St Albans, VT 05478 shops and in‐class sessions to develop a mo‐ bile walking tour applicaon, and idenfy sites Phone: (802) 527-7933 with a historical connecon in our community, in commemoraon of the 150th Anniversary of E‐mail: [email protected] the St. Albans Raid, the northernmost acon of the Civil War. Web‐ www.stamuseum.org site:

NEIWPCC Code L‐2014‐055 Date Complete: Open Grant Amount: $2,500.00 Non‐federal Match: $3,233.00 Total Amount: $5,733.00 61 2014 CVNHP Local Heritage Grant Life in Civil War Era: St. Albans, Vermont: Fall 1864

Project Summary Organi‐ St Albans City School zaon: The goal of our project is to have St. Albans Contact City School’s students gain an understanding Dayl Walther of what St. Albans was like in the 1860s with a Person: parcular focus on the 150th anniversary of Mailing 29 Bellows St the St. Albans Raid. We will invesgate the economic forecast at that me and answer the Address: St Albans, VT 05478 queson: why was St. Albans a tourist and Phone: commercial hub for the state of Vermont? By (802) 363-3565 giving our students and families a sense of the E‐mail: [email protected] historical heritage of their area, they will gain a greater appreciaon of their community’s past, present and future. Web‐ sacs.fcsuvt.org site:

NEIWPCC Code L‐2014‐069 Date Complete: Open Grant Amount: $2,500.00 Non‐federal Match: $0.00 Total Amount: $2,500.00 62 2014 CVNHP Local Heritage Grant Intergeneraonal Expressive Arts Documenng Veteran’s Narraves at the Vermont Veterans’ Home

Project Summary Organizaon: Vermont Arts Exchange The Vermont Arts Exchange (VAE) will work with the Bennington School to create an eight‐ Contact Lindsey Anderson week intergeneraonal workshop series in Person: partnership with the Vermont Veteran’s Home Mailing PO Box 725 (VVH). During this series, five Bennington Address: North Bennington, VT 05257 School students will be matched with five par‐ cipants from VAE’s expressive arts program‐ Phone: (802) 442-5549 ming at VVH, and will be asked to work with their conversaonal partner to gather stories E‐mail: [email protected] from him or her in narrave form (both rec‐ orded and wrien). Experts from Threshold Website: www.vtartxchange.org Collaborave, a story‐gathering collecve, will train students in how to effecvely gather in‐ formaon from their interview partner. These stories will be displayed side by side with the Veterans’ visual artwork in both a project book and an exhibion featuring audio clips.

NEIWPCC Code L‐2014‐038 Date Complete: Open Grant Amount: $2,500.00 Non‐federal Match: $400.00 Total Amount: $2,900.00 63 Grants Concluded

64 2012 Polluon Prevenon Local Implementaon Grant

Taylor Park Rain Gardens

Project Summary Organizaon: City of St Albans This grant funded the installaon of velocity‐ Contact Chip Sawyer reducon rain gardens approximately 600 feet Person: long and 14 feet wide along the eastern edge of Historic Taylor Park in downtown St Albans, Mailing PO Box 867 VT. The gardens include gravel guers for dis‐ Address: St. Albans, VT 05478 persion, plants, shrubs and mulch for erosion and visual appeal, low split rail fencing for pro‐ Phone: (802) 524-1500 tecon and cobble stones at the edge to pro‐ E‐mail: tect the adjacent pervious sidewalk. This grant [email protected] enabled the City of St Albans to connue its important work to maximize the role of Taylor Website: www.stalbansvt.com Park in providing stormwater infiltraon.

Shrubs, split rail fence along the pervious sidewalk

NEIWPCC Code L‐2013‐005 Date Complete: 11/6/13 Grant Amount: $14,850.00 Non‐federal Match: $1,910.00 Total Amount: $16,760.00

65 2012 Polluon Prevenon Local Implementaon Grant

Stormwater Reducon and Watershed Restoraon in the East Creek Watershed

Project Summary Organizaon: Rutland NRCD The East Creek is listed in the State of VT 2012 Contact Nanci McGuire List of Priority Surface Waters Outside the Person: Scope of Clean Water Act Secon 303(d) Part C., Surface Waters In Need of Further Assess‐ ment for both sediment and temperature. Also Mailing 170 S Main St, Ste 4 as idenfied in the Oer Creek Basin Water Address: Rutland, VT 05701 Quality Management Plan, Tenney Brook a Phone: tributary to the East Creek was menoned as (802) 775-7192 an urban stream with moderately high levels E‐mail: [email protected] of phosphorus (throughout the summer water quality monitoring seasons conducted by the Upper Oer Creek Watershed Council) with Website: www.vacd.org/rcd/ elevated levels of nutrients commonly associ‐ ated with rainfall events. In addion, these streams may receive ferlizer in runoff from gardens and lawns. Other urban streams showed moderately elevated levels of phos‐ phorus, especially the furthermost down‐ stream site on East Creek, which receives dis‐ charges from combined sewer overflow (CSO) and the Mussey Brook, which also exhibits elevated levels of nutrients and pathogenic bacteria. With this funding the Rutland Natural Re‐ sources Conservaon District (RNRCD) worked to raise public awareness in the East Creek wa‐ tershed about Stormwater Best Management Pracces (SBMP) beer known as Low Impact Rain garden at Bellevue Avenue Development (LID) by installing three LID demonstraon pracces throughout the wa‐ tershed, an infiltraon trench, tree planngs and a rain garden. Pet waste receptacles with NEIWPCC Code LS‐2012‐049 signage were also installed at Parks in the City Date Complete: 10/30/14 and a cistern has been designed and will be implemented with future funding at Garden Grant Amount: $10,000.00 Time. Non‐federal Match: $4,500.00 Total Amount: $14,500.00

66 2012 Polluon Prevenon Local Implementaon Grant

Nutrient Management Implementaon Assistance

Project Summary Organizaon: UVM Extension The UVM Extension Champlain Valley Crop, Contact Jeff Carter Soil & Pasture Team in Middlebury provided Person: technical assistance to livestock and crop pro‐ ducers and assisted them in implemenng nu‐ Mailing 23 Pond Lane, Suite 300 trient management pracces. Through one‐on‐ Address: Middlebury, VT 05753-1189 one technical assistance, soil and manure anal‐ ysis, nutrient management planning, and Phone: 802-388-4969 providing maps of manure spreading setbacks; E‐mail: we improved nutrient management on thirty [email protected] one (31) farms in the Champlain Valley. In ad‐ dion, the Extension staff introduced several Website: www.uvm.edu/extension farms to a new Soil Health Test as an addion‐ al tool to measure overall soil health, beyond the basic chemical analysis. As a result of this project, most of the parci‐ pang farms improved their nutrient manage‐ ment significantly. With current soil and ma‐ nure analysis and basic nutrient recommenda‐ ons based on actual crop producon, these farms are now able to make beer informed decisions about their nutrient applicaons and crop producon pracces. Although this was a relavely small project, financially speaking, it had a large impact. Extension staff provided enhanced services to farms in the central and southern porons of the Lake Champlain wa‐ tershed. The ground work that was accom‐ plished as a result of this project is already paying off as many of these farms adopt addi‐ Agros manure test to determine N content. onal pracces like reduced llage, cover crop‐ ping, improved grazing management and beer nutrient management planning. NEIWPCC Code L‐2012‐007 Date Complete: 3/31/14 Grant Amount: $14,785.00 Non‐federal Match: $1,738.00 Total Amount: $16,523.00

67 2012 Polluon Prevenon Local Implementaon Grant

Lake Champlain Tributary Polluon Prevenon Project

Project Summary Organizaon: Vermont Youth Conservation Corps The objecve of the FY12 VYCC Lake Cham‐ Contact Paul Schmidt plain Tributary Polluon Prevenon Project Person: was to restore 250 feet of stream bank to re‐ duce the amount of non‐point phosphorus Mailing 1949 East Main Street polluon and clean up five miles of river re‐ Address: Richmond, Vermont 05477 sulng in ~3 tons of debris removed from the Lake Champlain watershed. Following Tropical Phone: (802) 434-3969 Storm Irene in August 2011, tributary streams E‐mail: in the City of Rutland had foreign debris and [email protected] pollutants within the waterway which were removed by YVCC crews. A second site, Allen Website: www.vycc.org Brook, located in Williston, VT had sites that were severely damaged by agricultural grazing. To improve these parcels, the VYCC spent one week harvesng and installing 21 fascines, 280 live stakes, and maintained over 3,000 willow plants improving over 250 feet of bank. VYCC worked in partnership with the Vermont De‐ partment of Environmental Conservaon INSERT PICTURE (VTDEC), the City of Rutland Department of Public Works, and the Rutland Country Natural Resource Conservaon District.

Members of the Vermont Youth Conservaon Corps crew removing unwanted debris form a stream in Rutland.

NEIWPCC Code L‐2013‐004 Date Complete: 10/16/13 Grant Amount: $12,221.99 Non‐federal Match: $5,048.78 Total Amount: $17,270.77

68 2012 Shoreline Habitat Local Implementaon Grant

River and Shoreline Management Case Studies

Project Summary Organizaon: Lake Champlain Committee In the spring of 2011, Lake Champlain rose to Contact Lori Fisher 103.27 feet – the highest the lake has been since Person: records have been kept. High waters and waves baered the lake shoreline. Then, on August 28, Mailing 208 Flynn Ave, Bldg 3, Studio 3F, 2011 Tropical Storm Irene slammed into the Address: Burlington, VT 05401 Champlain Valley. Up to 11 inches of rain fell; rivers swelled and flooded; homes, roads and Phone: (802) 658-1414 bridges were wiped away. These, and more recent flood E‐mail: events, are forcing Vermont communies to re‐ [email protected] examine their relaonships with water. The Lake Champlain Commiee (LCC) sought examples of Website: www.lakechamplaincommittee.org river and lake shore management from communies that are parcularly vulnerable to flooding, and those that are trying to beer prepare for it. As we toured the region and listened to stories of flood damage several themes resurfaced. We idenfied eight “lessons” to help communies increase their resilience to and recovery from future flood events. Seven are focused on river systems and one addresses how to protect lakeshore properes. The examples that illustrate the lessons pro‐ vide concrete ideas and direcons for towns seeking to increase their flood resiliency.

A segment of Route 100 destroyed by Irene.

NEIWPCC Code L‐2013‐003 Date Complete: 10/16/13 Grant Amount: $10,000.00 Non‐federal Match: $10,000.00 Total Amount: $20,000.00

69 2012 Shoreline Habitat Local Implementaon Grant

West Brook Shoreline Remediaon Project

Project Summary Organizaon: Lake George Association The West Brook Shoreline Remediaon project Contact Walter Lender is located along West Brook in the Town of Person: Lake George, in the watershed of Lake George and Lake Champlain. It was started in the Mailing PO Box 408 spring of 2012 and completed on October 4th, Address: Lake George, NY 12945 2013. The objecve of the project was to stabi‐ lize the streambank and restore the proper Phone: (518) 668-9700 channel size and sinuosity of the stream. We worked with the Warren County Soil and Wa‐ E‐mail: [email protected] ter Conservaon District (WCSWCD) for design as well as the New York State Department of Website: www.lakegeorgeassociation.org Environmental Conservaon (NYSDEC).

Northern secon of the streambank 1 year aer compleon.

NEIWPCC Code L‐2012‐023 Date Complete: 10/16/13 Grant Amount: $10,000.00 Non‐federal Match: $5,475.00 Total Amount: $15,475.00

70 2012 Shoreline Habitat Local Implementaon Grant

Richmond Floodplain Forest Restoraon Project Buffer Planng

Project Summary Organizaon: Richmond Land Trust Richmond is home to a State‐Significant Silver Contact Christa Kemp Maple‐Ostrich Fern Floodplain Forest—the Person: largest remaining on the upper Winooski River. This special place is threatened by the ongoing Mailing P.O. Box 605 effects of past land‐use pracces that le sec‐ Address: Richmond, VT 05477 ons of the forest without a riparian buffer adequate to protect it from floodwaters and Phone: (802) 434-5343 erosion. With the Lake Champlain Basin Pro‐ gram’s support we have begun the process of E‐mail: [email protected] re‐establishing a buffer along the bank of the Winooski at the most threatened site within Website: www.richmondlandtrust.org Richmond’s floodplain forest—a 35 acre area known as the Beeken Preserve and we per‐ formed invasive plant control throughout the 145 acre project area.

Youth Conservaon Corps strengthening a riparian buffer zone.

NEIWPCC Code L‐2012‐012 Date Complete: 2/27/14 Grant Amount: $9,996.36 Non‐federal Match: $8,540.00 Total Amount: $18,536.36

71 2013 Aquac Invasive Species Local Implementaon Grant

Water Chestnut Control in Missisquoi Naonal Wildlife Refuge

Project Summary Organizaon: Friends of Missisquoi National Wildlife Refuge The Friends of the Missisquoi Naonal Wildlife Refuge received a grant from the Vermont DEC Contact Rich Kelley in 2013 to control water chestnut on refuge Person: lands and nearby waters of Lake Champlain. Mailing 29 Tabor Road $14,000.00 was awarded to survey and re‐ Address: move water chestnut from at least 100 acres Swanton, VT 05488 of refuge wetland. By the end of the field sea‐ Phone: (802) 868-4781 son, $10,000.00 of work was completed, with a remaining $4,000.00 to use in 2014. E‐mail: [email protected] The Friends received an LCBP grant in 2014 to Website: www.friendsofmissisquoi.org add to these state funds. With an addional $4,080.00, a crew was hired to survey and treat all infested areas. A total of 397 hours were spent pulling 1,451 water chestnut ro‐ sees (154 pounds). Comparing results from 2013 and 2014, it appears that infestaon lev‐ els have been reduced from intensive control operaons in 2013. The refuge is interested in sharing project results and has created a post‐ er for display in the refuge visitor’s center.

Areas Surveyed and Treated for Water Chestnut NEIWPCC Code L‐2014‐018 Date Complete: 8/20/2014 Grant Amount: $4,080.00 Non‐federal Match: $500.00 Total Amount: $4,580.00 72 2012 Educaon & Outreach Local Implementaon Grant

Fact Sheet Series: Stormwater Friendly Driveways

Project Summary Organizaon: City of Burlington Public Works The City of Burlington Public Works Depart‐ Contact Chapin Spencer ment used the LCBP funds to develop a series Person: of fact sheets which provided pavement alter‐ naves to residents who wished to replace Mailing PO Box 849 their exisng driveway. Having these fact Address: Burlington, VT 05402-0849 sheets will not only inform people of the other opons available to them for driveway pro‐ Phone: (802) 656-0551 jects, but also contains a fact sheet which spe‐ cifically targets two known issues on exisng E‐mail: [email protected] driveways – use of coal tar sealants and steep Website: www.burlingtonvt.gov/DPW gravel driveways. Having these fact sheets in place allows the DPW and planning departments to formally respond to cizen complaints (or through the city’s own observaon ) regarding the dis‐ charge of gravel and dirt into our right of way from steep, improperly maintained dirt/gravel driveways. The fact sheet serve as a non‐ regu‐ latory tool to encourage residents to fix the stormwater runoff problem in a lake friendly way.

Example of stormwater friendly driveway. NEIWPCC Code L‐2013‐007 Date Complete: 2/24/14 Grant Amount: $7,400.00 Non‐federal Match: $1.905.00 Total Amount: $9,305.00 73 2012 Educaon & Outreach Local Implementaon Grant

Lake George On‐site Rainwater Harvesng Irrigaon System Demo

Project Summary Organizaon: CWICNY The Lake George On‐site Rainwater harvesng Contact irrigaon system is complete and fully opera‐ Person: on. The new system has been constructed as planned: a self‐contained, medium scale rain‐ Mailing c/o Lake George RPB water retenon apparatus that collects roof Address: PO Box 765 runoff, reduces stormwater overflows, ulizes Lake George, NY 12845 non‐treated rain water, and intercepts high velocity runoff to Lake George. Phone: (518) 668-5773 This green infrastructure system collects roof E‐mail: water from the southeast corner of the Town of Lake George museum complex, retaining Website: www.cwicny.org 1,1,00 gallons during half inch rainfall events. The system is designed to temporarily contain rainwater for irrigang areas adjacent to the building. The areas receiving rainwater through irrigaon were selected due to histor‐ ic troubles with grass germinaon from low moisture levels and sandy soils. The project features a picturesque mural, designed to mimic the surrounding landscape, water saving technology and high velocity overflow absorp‐ on directed into a small stone‐lined ouall area. CWICNY involved many audiences in this pro‐ ject. An open house was held for municipal officials. The ease of construcon and the ex‐ citement created by this unique green infra‐ structure system smulated terrific “green” Cistern mural designed and painted by the Lake George momentum to the Town of Lake George Build‐ High School art class. ing and Maintenance staff. CWICNY also ar‐ ranged for a Lake George High School Arts Class to complete a mural painng on the col‐ NEIWPCC Code L‐2012‐040 lecon system thus broadening the audience Date Complete: 1/10/14 for this project. In all, the newly installed stem provides a unique water conversaon and ero‐ Grant Amount: $7,090.00 sion protecons system to showcase to the Non‐federal Match: $3,175.00 public on the shores of Lake George. Total Amount: $10,265.00 74 2012 Educaon & Outreach Local Implementaon Grant

Conservaon Correspondent

Project Summary Organizaon: ECHO Lake Aquarium and Science Center ECHO’s Conservaon Correspondent delivered stewardship messages to as many as 200,000 Contact Phelan Fretz TV viewers of WPTZ News Channel 5 and to Person: many of ECHO’s 150,000 annual guests. The Mailing 1 College St project produced a total of 12, 2 minute wa‐ Address: Burlington, VT tershed news segments and 11 hands‐on acv‐ ies to connect ECHO’s visitors to current wa‐ Phone: (802) 864-1848 tershed research, regionally applicable cizen science projects, and local volunteer water‐ E‐mail: [email protected] shed projects. News stories were chosen that complimented the LCBP Opportunies for Ac‐ Website: www.echovermont.org on report. The Conservaon Correspondent program complimented the WPTZ Champlain Connecon Monday night segment on the 6 p.m. news which developed in partnership with the LCBP in 1999.

A sampling of stories featured on Channel 5—WPTZ.

NEIWPCC Code LS‐2013‐001 Date Complete: 8/1/14 Grant Amount: $7,500.00 Non‐federal Match: $7,500.00 Total Amount: $15,000.00 75 2012 Educaon & Outreach Local Implementaon Grant

Living in Harmony with Streams: Educang the Public about How Streams

Project Summary Organizaon: Friends of the Winooski River Stream processes and river science is not intuitive. As Contact was seen in the wake of Irene, it felt good and intuitively Ann Smith right to many people to deepen and straighten rivers. Person: The sad irony is that this work may actually increase Mailing PO Box 777 flood hazards and ultimately cause more threats to life Address: and downstream property in the future as well as dam‐ Montpelier, VT 05602 age aquatic ecosystems. In the post‐Irene world, many towns as well as the State legislature and agencies con‐ Phone: (802) 882-8276 tinued to grapple with how to change our laws and policies to protect human infrastructure and our aquat‐ E‐mail: [email protected] ic resources. It was important that a broad swath of the public be able to engage in this discussion in an in‐ Website: http://www.winooskiriver.org formed manner. This program was designed to address that need by taking a multi‐faceted approach to educat‐ ing the general public about stream processes and river science. The project took place throughout the Winooski water‐ shed events ranging from Montpelier to Northfield to Burlington from late 2012 to March 2014. The Friends created a Powerpoint presentation that was based on their publication, Living in Harmony with Streams. This presentation was used to give 10 talks to organiza‐ tions throughout the watershed. The target audiences were civic organizations, businesses or co‐sponsored events with other institutions such as libraries. The rea‐ son for targeting these forums was to move ‘beyond the choir’ who are likely to attend a Friends created event. It also allowed us to keep costs down since the presentations will be given in established forums rather Picturesque stream. than the Friends needing to organize and promote the workshop. In addition, the Friends conducted three flume demos; one each in Montpelier, Waterbury and NEIWPCC Code LS‐2013‐001 Burlington. power point presentation is posted on the Date Complete: 6/27/14 Friends of the Winooski River website www.winooskiriver.org. Grant Amount: $3,990.00 Non‐federal Match: $1,000.00 Total Amount: $4,990.00 76 2012 Educaon and Outreach Local Implementaon Grant

The Floang Classroom for the Lake George Watershed

Project Summary Organizaon: Lake George Association In 2013, 2,228 parcipants were able to expe‐ Contact Walter Lender rience the Floang Classroom program includ‐ Person: ing 637 adults during the summer season. Spring and Fall seasons had students from 32 Mailing PO Box 408 schools parcipate. Address: Lake George, NY 12845 The programs concluded with a review of ways Phone: (518) 668-3558 that people can help protect the Lake in rela‐ on to everything they learned, such as main‐ E‐mail: [email protected] taining and inspecng sepc systems, avoiding Website: www.lakegeorgeassociation.org phosphorous ferlizers, planng buffers and rain gardens, following stormwater regula‐ ons, and prevenng the spread of invasive species. Feedback from parcipants was posi‐ ve and everyone seemed to enjoy learning about water quality, and what they can do to protect the future of our water resources.

Parcipants use microscopes to get an up close look of the zooplankton in Lake George.

NEIWPCC Code L‐2012‐048 Date Complete: 1/14/14 Floang Classroom Parcipaon since 1997. The program Grant Amount: $7,500.00 had a record number of parcipants, 2228, in 2013. Non‐federal Match: $7,500.00 Total Amount: $15,000.00 77 2012 Educaon & Outreach Local Implementaon Grant

Project WET and WILD Teacher Workshops

Project Summary Organizaon: Lake Champlain/Lake George RPB Project WET (Water Educaon for Teachers) and Project WILD are naonally syndicated Contact Walter Young programs that help integrate fun, hands‐on Person: acvies into science and math curriculums. Developed by the Project WET Foundaon and Mailing PO Box 765 the Council for Environmental Conservaon, Address: Lake George, NY 12845 these programs help educators teach their stu‐ dents an array of water quality concepts, wild‐ Phone: (518) 668-5773 life conservaon and overall environmental E‐mail: [email protected] stewardship roles. Website: www.lclgrpb.org The Lake Champlain – Lake George Regional Planning Board, in partnership with the Lake

George Associaon and Essex County Soil and Water Conservaon District, hosted and per‐ formed one Project WET Workshop in Paul Smith’s on May 15, 2013 and two Project Wild Workshops in Lake George and Westport on November 6 and 7, 2013, respecvely. Each 4.5 hour workshop showcased how the Pro‐ grams and their informaon can be integrated into standard curriculum requirements while parcipants performed several of the acvies from the Guides and shared ideas and adapta‐ ons for use. Combined, 41 local elementary, secondary, home‐school and environmental center educators from six counes were edu‐ cated on these naonal programs.

In addion to the training and receiving the Classroom “Treasure Chest” filled with materials for Project WET and Project Wild Workbooks pro‐ hands‐on learning vided by the NYS DEC, parcipants were given a “Treasure Chest” that consisted of materials needed to perform five acvies in their class‐ NEIWPCC Code L‐2013‐008 room, including beakers, graduated cylinders, Date Complete: 3/7/14 magnifying glasses, metal buckets, string, duct tape, markers, cones, sponges and much Grant Amount: $7,492.75 more. Through these workshops, 30 Treasure Non‐federal Match: $640.00 Chests were distributed. Total Amount: $8,132.75 78 2012 Educaon & Outreach Local Implementaon Grant

Science and Technology of Underwater Discovery Grant

Project Summary Organizaon: Lake Champlain Maritime Museum In keeping with the naonal emphasis on ap‐ plied STEM skills and concepts, the LCMM de‐ Contact Erick Tichonuck veloped a new program tled the Science and Person: Technology of Underwater Discovery. Naucal Mailing 4472 Basin Harbor Rd archeology requires the praccal applicaon of Address: Vergennes, VT 05491 scienfic pracces solidly grounded in core science and STEM content standards. The Phone: (802) 475-2022 LCMM set a goal to provide students with the opportunity to apply the academic and prob‐ E‐mail: [email protected] lem solving skills they have learned in the classroom to real world research problems Website: www.lcmm.org faced by naucal archeologists. The scienfic disciplines include physics, chemistry, geology and biology. The program is organized around five instruc‐ onal modules which are available on‐line on the LCMM website. Modules include: Underwater Environment Archeological Documentaon Conservaon Diving Naucal Archaeological Field Work Tech‐ niques and ethics

Each module emphasizes different core con‐ cepts from scienfic disciplines. A teacher may tailor their museum experience by choosing Ship’s wheel of the sailing canal boat O. J. Walker. those modules that best reinforce their own classroom instrucon and may be presented NEIWPCC Code L‐2012‐028 individually or in combinaon over one or sev‐ eral days. Date Complete: 10/14/13 Grant Amount: $7,500.00 Non‐federal Match: $5,680.00 Total Amount: $13,180.00 79 2012 Educaon & Outreach Local Implementaon Grant

Lake Champlain Restoraon Nursery Educaon Program

Project Summary Organizaon: Poultney-Mettowee NRCD PMNRCD provided an opportunity for resi‐ Contact Hiliary Solomon dents of the watershed to learn about the Person: need for propagaon of nave seed stock and the concerns about non‐nave invasive spe‐ Mailing PO Box 209 cies. The grant focused on the value of tree Address: Poultney, VT 05764-020 and shrub planngs to control erosion and wa‐ ter polluon and on the effect individuals can Phone: (802) 287-4284 have by parcipang in restoraon pracces. E‐mail: [email protected] PMNRCD partnered with the manager of the Website: Champlain Valley Nave Plant Restoraon www.pmnrcd.org Nursery (CVNPRN), located at Green Mountain College (GMC), to increase the visibility of the nursery to the public, provide educaonal pro‐ grams, offer GMC students internships, aend municipal events for outreach, and offer nave plants for sale to the public. The program also developed brochures about the importance of planng nave species, conducted nursery open houses for the public, and partnered INSERT PICTURE with students from Poultney High School, Community College of Vermont, and Green Mountain College. During a “Student Service Learning Day” students from Green Mountain College planted 100 trees.

Nave plant nursery.

NEIWPCC Code L‐2012‐043 Date Complete: 8/1/14 Grant Amount: $7,475.00 Non‐federal Match: $7,475.00 Total Amount: $14,950.00 80 2012 Educaon & Outreach Local Implementaon Grant

Cleaning VT’s Waterways Educaon Program

Project Summary Organizaon: Rozalia Project This Cleaning VT’s Waterways Educaon Pro‐ Contact Rachael Miller gram gave the Rozalia Project the opportunity Person: to combat marine debris in Vermont through cleanup and educaon. During this project, Mailing PO Box 75 290 of Vermont’s students and teachers plus Address: Granville, VT 05747 another 433 adult volunteers and event aendees came together to learn about the Phone: 802-578-6120 problems, and be part of the soluons, to ma‐ E‐mail: rine debris in Vermont. Along with crews from [email protected] a joint program with the VT Dept. of Labor, designed to put people who lost their homes Website: www.rozaliaproject.org or jobs back to work cleaning debris le by Tropical Storm Irene, Rozalia Project’s volun‐ teers and students picked up a staggering 505,000+ pieces of trash from along Lake Champlain. Microplascs were one of the sub‐ stances that Rozalia picked up and inventoried, leading to a larger collecon in 2014. Rozalia was able to strengthen their partner‐ ship with the Ocean Conservancy through this project which may serve as model worldwide.

Microplasc resin pellets retrieved from Burlington’s shores. NEIWPCC Code L‐2012‐028 Date Complete: 12/31/13 Grant Amount: $6,790.00 Non‐federal Match: $6,790.00 Total Amount: $13,580.00 81 2012 Educaon & Outreach Local Implementaon Grant

Winooski River Paddlers’ Trail Development and Public Engagement Iniave

Project Summary Organizaon: Vermont River Conservancy The VRC worked to foster collaborave, re‐ Contact Steve Libby gional approaches to improving recreaonal Person: access along the Winooski River through this grant. Two new river access sites were created Mailing 29 Main St, Ste 11 and a new Paddlers’ Trail Network was developed. The Address: first access improvement project brought to‐ Montpelier, VT 05602 gether local volunteers and the 10th grade Phone: 802-229-0820 class from the Cabot School. Together they constructed a new river access near the Plain‐ E‐mail: [email protected] field Coop. During the second access project, VRC en‐ Website: www.vermontriverconservancy.org/ gaged local adult volunteers in hands‐on ser‐ vice at Marn Bridge Park, in the town of Marshfield. Eight volunteers worked for three days with VRC staff to install a mber access staircase. VRC also brought stakeholders together to cre‐ ate the Winooski River Paddlers' Trail Network. INSERT PICTURE Through an outreach meeng and follow up conversaons, they developed a trail partner database, a shared vision statement, and a set of conservation and access improvement priorities.

Creang river access sites.

NEIWPCC Code L‐2012‐026 Date Complete: 12/19/13 Grant Amount: $5,500.00 Non‐federal Match: $5,500.00 Total Amount: $11,000.00 82 2012 Educaon & Outreach Local Implementaon Grant

Let it Rain Stormwater Migaon Program

Project Summary Organizaon: Winooski NRCD Through this LCBP grant, WNRCD expanded its Contact Sophie Sauve educaonal efforts related to Let it Rain, a pro‐ Person: gram started the previous year in partnership with Lake Champlain Sea Grant to reduce Mailing 617 Comstock Road, Suite 1 stormwater runoff. WNRCD developed and Address: Berlin, VT 05602 hosted workshops related to Low Impact De‐ velopment and distributed educaonal materi‐ Phone: (802) 288-8155 als while working with partners. WNRCD in‐ E‐mail: creased external communicaons by wring [email protected] local newspaper arcles, adversing pracces, and exhibing informaon at ten community Website: www.winooskinrcd.org events. A presentaon was also given at the Vermont Garden show tled “Landscaping for the Storm.” LCBP funds helped leverage addi‐ onal adversement for the ‘Connecng the Drops’ project, a stormwater outreach inia‐ ve in Burlington. The WNRCD met its short‐term goal of mi‐ gang runoff from more than 50,000 square feet of impervious surface through outreach, educaon and technical assistance for Let it Rain over two years.

An arsc rain barrel.

NEIWPCC Code L‐2012‐025 Date Complete: 1/14/14 Grant Amount: $7,500.00 Non‐federal Match: $7,500.00 Total Amount: $15,000.00 83 2012 Educaon & Outreach Local Implementaon Grant

Adapt NY : Understanding the Effects of Climate Change on the Adirondacks

Project Summary Organizaon: Mountain Lake Public Telecommunications Mountain Lake PBS created a one hour public television documentary tled “Adapt NY: Un‐ Contact Daniel Swinton derstanding the Effects of Climate Change on Person: the Adirondacks”, built an educaonal website Mailing to support the film, arranged for six public One Sesame Street screenings of the program, and aired the pro‐ Address: Plattsburgh NY 12901 gram 10 mes on Mountain Lake PBS. Major Phone: (518) 563-9770 matching money to the LCBP grant was in hand. E‐mail: [email protected]

Website: www.mountainlake.org The program aired on Mountain Lake PBS to the enre broadcast region, which extends from the Lake Champlain Basin, to Vermont, much of the Adirondack Park and to Montreal and Quebec. Film screenings for 100 people were conducted at the Adirondack Research Consorum meeng, at the Wild Center, at an event in Plasburgh, for a delegaon of 40 Fulbright Scholars, and for students and faculty at SUNY Plasburgh. The three large New York screening had an accompanying Q&A session with the filmmakers, students and experts fea‐ tured in the film, including Curt Stager from Paul Smith’s College. “The Resilient Ones: A Generaon Takes On Climate Change” a public television documentary.

NEIWPCC Code L‐2014‐057 Date Complete: 10/16/14 Grant Amount: $6,000.00 Non‐federal Match: Total Amount: $6,000.00 84 2014 CVNHP Local Heritage Grant Manchester Heritage Project

Project Summary Organizaon: Burr and Burton Academy Contact Students from Burr and Burton Academy in Cheryl Young Manchester connected with the region’s history Person: through a CVNHP Local Heritage Grant. Students Mailing P.O. Box 498 interviewed and filmed residents—including a Address: Manchester, VT 05254 104‐year‐old former Burr and Burton student, a local poet, a veteran of the German Army who Phone: (802) 867-5921 fought in World War II, and various tradespeo‐ E‐mail: [email protected] ple from the greater Manchester region includ‐ ing the towns of Dorset, Pawlet, Rupert, Lon‐ Website: http://voicesofvermont.net/ donderry and Peru. The interviews were edited using professional and are available for viewing on the Voices of Vermont website.

Students from Burr and Burton Academy inter‐ viewed local farmers, arsans, business people, and residents of Bennington County that have lived interesng lives.

NEIWPCC Code L‐2014‐007 Date Complete: 7/7/2014 Grant Amount: $5,000.00 Non‐federal Match: $24,412.84 Total Amount: $29,412.84 85 2014 CVNHP Commemoraon Grant Rabble in Arms 2014: The Aack on Fort Cassin

Project Summary Organizaon: Lake Champlain Maritime Museum On the weekend of August 16‐17, 2014, LCMM recreated the events of 1814, when the Brish Contact Erick Tichonuk fleet sailed down Lake Champlain with the in‐ Person: tent to destroy Lieut. Thomas Macdonough’s Mailing 4472 Basin Harbor Road ship building operaon in Vergennes, Vermont. Address: Re‐enactors from across the northeast gathered Vergennes, VT 05490 at LCMM’s North Harbor to recreate and inter‐ Phone: (802) 475-2022 pret these events for the vising public. Forty re‐enactors, arllery units and reproducon ves‐ E‐mail: [email protected] sels brought the pivotal events of the War of Website: www.lcmm.org 1812 to life as they commemorated the 200th Anniversary of this important military engage‐ ment. Museum visitors enjoyed demonstraons of marime skills, presentaons of firearms, boat maneuvers, open air cooking, blacksmith‐ ing, and lectures about Vergennes’ role in the War of 1812. In addion, our Museum gallery featured the exhibit 1812 ‐ Star Spangled Na‐ on, on loan from the American Society of Ma‐ rine Arsts.

By presenng this event to the general public, the LCMM accomplished the goal of bringing an important chapter in local and naonal history to life and made learning about these events Hundreds of re‐enactors and spectators marked the bi‐ accessible and entertaining to 466 Museum visi‐ centennial of the Brish aack on Fort Cassin. tors. LCMM’s 2014 Rabble in Arms event offered the public an interacve interpretaon of the War of 1812 based on new research on Lieut. Macdonough’s shipyard at the Vergennes Falls, and lile known aspects of Vermont’s role in the War of 1812, parcularly the Bale of Fort Cas‐ sin. The re‐enactment of the aack on Fort Cas‐ NEIWPCC Code L‐2014‐029 sin shed light on a war few people know much Date Complete: 10/21/2014 about and the pivotal role Vermont played in this war. Grant Amount: $5,000.00

Non‐federal Match: $2,750.00 Total Amount: $7,750.00 86 2014 CVNHP Local Heritage Grant Pathways: Past and Present

Project Summary Organizaon: Burlington City Arts Contact Inspired by the history and architecture of Bur‐ Sara Katz lington’s Moran Plant, Vermont arst Catherine Person: Siller organized school residencies with Vermont Mailing 135 Church St. High School students at CVU and Burlington High Schools. Siller implemented in‐classroom Address: Burlington, VT demos integrang technology, art, movement, Phone: and the history of the Moran Plan. (802) 865-5356 E‐mail: [email protected] Built in 1953 and once known for its architec‐ ture and its technical innovaon, the Burling‐ Website: http://vimeo.com/100219826 ton’s Moran Municipal Power Plant now stands abandoned, an eyesore in Burlington’s other‐ wise vibrant, waterfront community. Pathways became an appropriate tle for the project based on this melding of history, power and cre‐ avity. Eleven students parcipated in extra‐ curricular workshops at the BCA Center, devel‐ oping their own artwork in response to Moran and waterfront history. Student work was translated into digital projec‐ ons that were incorporated into a 3‐hour movement and interacve technology‐based performance with six vising arsts at the Mo‐ ran Plant site on May 31, 2014. The perfor‐ Students develop digital photo collages for the project. mance was aended by an esmated 150‐200 people, including parents and teachers of stu‐ dents and many community members interest‐ ed in the future of the plant. The project was and documented on video and in photographs, and Siller compiled the curriculum that she used into a guide that was distributed to the parci‐ pang schools and that could be used with oth‐ er students in the future. It also provides details NEIWPCC Code L‐2014‐040 of the work completed in the school and in the Date Complete: 10/21/2014 workshops. The performance was covered by WCAX on May 29 and in a brief arcle in the Grant Amount: $4,990.00 Burlington Free Press. A 30‐minute video of the Non‐federal Match: $19,774.40 performance is available online Total Amount: $24,764.40 87 2014 CVNHP Local Heritage Grant Oer Creek Odyssey

Project Summary Organizaon: Lake Champlain Maritime Museum The Lake Champlain Marime Museum (LCMM) Contact Erick Tichonuk implemented a new educaonal field program Person: designed by to introduce local school children to Mailing 4472 Basin Harbor Road the history, archaeology and ecology of the Address: Champlain Basin via a day‐long rowing excursion Vergennes, VT 05490 down Oer Creek. The program took place on Phone: (802) 475-2022 September 16‐17, 2014. E‐mail: [email protected] During the one‐day, on‐water program parci‐ Website: www.lcmm.org pants gained hands‐on experience with the eco‐ system by rowing to a series of stops along the than we’re used to in today’s society, enabling river bank of Oer Creek. The LCMM and Ver‐ them to have a truly in‐depth personal experience mont Instute for Natural Resources had ex‐ and bringing them closer to the natural world. By perts interact with students at staons set up encouraging recreaon and exploraon in low‐ along the route interpreng the ecology, biodi‐ impact, human‐powered vessels, it was our objec‐ versity, pre‐history and history of the Oer ve to insll a life‐long love and appreciaon of Creek watershed. Parcipants experienced a our waterways, their ecology and historical signifi‐ wide variety of disciplines covering regional his‐ cance. In so doing we hope to create a generaon tory, archaeology, technology, ecology, natural of environmental stewards. history, bird, plant, fish, and animal species, im‐ pacts of polluon, farm and urban runoff, and the threat posed by invasive species. The day on the Creek was made possible by the use of LCMM’s longboats; six oared rowing gigs, allowing students to gain valuable teamwork skills during the course of the program. Each boat is headed by a trained coxswain who taught the basics of rowing as a team, and pro‐ vided the leadership for each teams’ day on the water. Rowing a gig was the perfect venue for The project connected 127 school children with their local teaching team‐building while geng physical waterway, many of them traveling on it for the first me. exercise in an outdoor environment. In addion to a broad spectrum history, archae‐ NEIWPCC Code L‐2014‐041 ology, technology and ecology curriculum, this Date Complete: 10/31/2014 on‐water program provided a personal connec‐ on to the waterways and history in parci‐ Grant Amount: $5,000.00 pants’ own backyard. The 127 school children Non‐federal Match: $3,572.00 that parcipated viewed the waterway and its inhabitants from water level, at a slower pace Total Amount: $8,572.00 88 2014 CVNHP Local Heritage Grant Invesng in the Future by Studying the Past

Project Summary Organizaon: Ethan Allen Homestead Museum Contact The Ethan Allen Homestead Museum developed Daniel O’Neil new educaonal programming to match new Person: scholarship and reflect new educaonal stand‐ Mailing Ethan Allen Homestead ards. The program was intended to help inter‐ Address: Burlington, VT 05408 preters develop their presentaons, and engage young adults in research. The benefits of the Phone: (802) 865-4556 program were new dynamic programs that en‐ E‐mail: info@ethanallen homestead.org gage new audiences. The objecve of this pro‐ Website: www.ethanallenhome stead.org gram was to develop portable demonstraon kits on areas of history and make them available for use for schools.

The museum hired three college students on as interns to develop lesson plans and demonstra‐ ons for the public. They were allowed to choose their own topic area, and were provided with research resources to carry it out. Under our supervision, the interns developed acvies and a procedure that was compable with Com‐ mon Core. Throughout May‐October 2014, the interns were required to spend at least three hours per week at the museum helping with Interns developed new curricula and general operaons, but also working on these interpreve programs that included programs. They were supervised in their re‐ colonial botany, French selement of search, and provided instrucon on how to the Champlain Valley and colonial play. write and perform a lesson.

The interns produced interesng results, they each chose different areas of focus and pro‐ duced lesson plans that were interdisciplinary. Each Lesson Plan covers both History and anoth‐ er subject pernent to the Champlain Valley. Each Lesson Plan examines a different aspect of NEIWPCC Code L‐2014‐050 th life in the Champlain Valley during the 18 Cen‐ Date Complete: 12/15/2014 tury. Upon tesng, these acvies were very favourably received, and aer making changes Grant Amount: $2,000.00 to address workability issues, they are ready to Non‐federal Match: $2,000.00 be offered as part of the museum’s regular edu‐ caonal programming. Total Amount: $4,000.00 89 2014 CVNHP Local Heritage Grant The War of 1812: The Champlain Valley and the Conflict that Redefined North America

Project Summary Organizaon: Whallonsburg Civic Assoc. Contact The Whallonsburg Civic Associaon sponsored a Andrew Buchanan War of 1812 history weekend (September 19‐ Person: 20, 2014) by bringing in a Pulitzer‐winning lec‐ Mailing P.O. Box 274 turer, Alan Taylor. His lecture was followed the Address: Essex, NY 12936 next day with a roundtable discussion and walk‐ ing tour with local historians of the area. Ap‐ Phone: (518) 570-2381 proximately 75 people aended the two events E‐mail: [email protected] in total. The event was a wonderful collabora‐ Website: on between local historians, community organ‐ izaons, and instuons of higher educaon.

NEIWPCC Code L‐2014‐053 Date Complete: 12/17/2014 Grant Amount: $1,578.00 Two‐me Pulitzer Prize winner, Alan Taylor, lectured at the Non‐federal Match: $700.00 Wallonsburg, New York Grange Hall in September 2014. Total Amount: $2,278.00

90 2014 CVNHP Commemoraon Grant Bale of Plasburgh Commemoraon

Project Summary Organizaon: Battle of Plattsburgh Assc. Contact The CVNHP awarded a $5,000 2014 Commemo‐ Kit Booth raon Grant to the Bale of Plasburgh Associa‐ Person: on in support of the bicentennial commemora‐ Mailing 21 Old Dock Road on of the pivotal land and water bale. Ap‐ Address: Plattsburgh, NY 12901 proximately 250 re‐enactors parcipated in the three re‐enactments of two land skirmishes and Phone: (518) 563-4375 the fierce naval bale on Cumberland Bay. The E‐mail: [email protected] associaon esmates that more than 2500 peo‐ Website: www.battleofplattsburgh.org ple aended these events and visited the re‐ enactors encampment at the Kent‐Delord House in Plasburgh.

The Bale of Plasburgh Bay re‐enacted 200 years later.

NEIWPCC Code L‐2014‐061 Date Complete: 10/14/2014 Grant Amount: $5,000.00 Re‐enactors from the U.S. and Canada parcipated. Non‐federal Match: $18,432.00 Total Amount: $23,432.00 91 2013 CVNHP Local Implementaon Grant The Wonders of Fly Fishing

Project Summary Organizaon: The American Museum of Fly Fishing A 2013 CVNHP Implementaon Grant funded the installaon of The Wonders of Fly Fishing Contact Sarah Foster exhibion, which outlines the history of Ameri‐ Person: can fly fishing through the interpretaon of the Mailing P.O. Box 42 finest arfacts in the American Museum of Fly Address: Manchester, VT 05254 Fishing’s extensive collecon. Addionally, it reinforces a strong sense of local community Phone: (802) 362-3300 tradions by highlighng cultural and leisure E‐mail: [email protected] pracces throughout history to develop beer awareness of the sport of fly fishing, from its Website: www.amff.com early European days to its current and growing prominence in the United States.

The new exhibit interprets the history of fly fishing.

NEIWPCC Code L‐2013‐023 Date Complete: 12/20/2013 Grant Amount: $5,000.00 Non‐federal Match: $5,000.00 Total Amount: $10,000.00 92 2013 CVNHP Local Implementaon Grant Marjorie Lansing Porter Collecon Mul‐Media Project

Project Summary Organizaon: Traditional Arts in Upstate New York, Inc. (TAUNY) Ulizing a 2013 CVNHP Commemoraon Grant, Contact Jill Breit TAUNY partnered with SUNY Plasburgh Li‐ brary's Special Collecons, the Adirondack His‐ Person: tory Center in Elizabethtown, and Mountain Mailing 5 Main Street Lake PBS in Plasburgh to showcase an im‐ Address: Canton, NY 13617 portant song collecon housed at SUNY Plas‐ burgh and to honor the woman who collected Phone: (315) 386-4289 the materials in the 1940s and 1950s: Cham‐ E‐mail: [email protected] plain Valley historian Marjorie Lansing Por‐ Website: www.TAUNY.org ter. The songs in the collecon range from rare Brish and Irish ballads to nave New York songs of the lumber camps and iron mines. The regional collaboraon produced the following outcomes under the tle" Songs to Keep": digi‐ zaon of the Porter collecon to make it more easily accessible to researchers, a traveling ex‐ hibit about Marjorie Lansing Porter, a CD of songs from the collecon reinterpreted by con‐ temporary Adirondack musicians, a 6‐stop con‐ cert tour, a 72‐page song book, and a one‐hour documentary about Porter, the collecon, and the effort to bring that work to light. Arsts record a tradional Adirondack folk song.

NEIWPCC Code L‐2013‐024 Date Complete: 12/20/2013 Grant Amount: $5,000.00 Non‐federal Match: $100,065.00 Total Amount: $105,065.00 93 2013 CVNHP Local Implementaon Grant Interpretaon of Lake Champlain Fisheries

Project Summary Organizaon: Chittenden County Regional

The Chienden County Regional Planning Com‐ Contact Dan Albrecht mission worked in partnership with the Lake Person: Champlain Byway and Lake Champlain Interna‐ onal, to oversee design, fabricate and installa‐ Mailing 110 West Canal Street on of three, bilingual interpreve panels con‐ Address: Suite 202 cerning historic and present day fisheries on Winooski, VT 05404 Lake Champlain. The panels focus on commer‐ Phone: (802) 846-4490 x29 cial fishing, recreaonal fishing and historic Na‐ ve American fisheries and use the CVNHP de‐ E‐mail: [email protected] sign template for a 24” x 48” bilingual panel. Website: www.ccrpcvt.org Panels will be installed at boat launches or mari‐ nas or other public and high visibility locaons in lakeshore communies that are part of the Lake Champlain Byway.

NEIWPCC Code L‐2013‐014 Date Complete: 9/3/2014 Grant Amount: $5,000.00 Non‐federal Match: $1,770.18 Total Amount: $6,770.18 94 2013 CVNHP Local Implementaon Grant Camp Santanoni Interpreve Guide Project Summary Organizaon: Adirondack Architectural Heritage (AARCH) Adirondack Architectural Heritage (AARCH) re‐ Contact ceived a CVNHP 2013 Implementaon Grant to Steven Engelhart create and distribute a new, full‐color, 48‐page Person: interpreve guide to Camp Santanoni, a state‐ Mailing 1745 Main Street, owned, Naonal Historic Landmark listed, Great Address: Keeseville, NY 12944 Camp in Newcomb, New York. The high‐quality guide enriches the learning experiences of the Phone: (518) 834-9328 10,000 plus visitors to the camp each year. E‐mail: [email protected] Website: www.aarch.org

NEIWPCC Code L‐2013‐017 Date Complete: 12/20/2013 Grant Amount: $5,000.00 Non‐federal Match: $17,591.50 Total Amount: $22,591.50 95 2013 CVNHP Local Implementaon Grant Catholic Summer School of America Digital Exhibit

Project Summary Organizaon: Clinton County Historical Association CCHA) Through a 2013 CVNHP Implementaon Grant, the CCHA created a one‐of‐a‐kind touchscreen Contact Melissa A. Peck exhibit that serves to interpret the 45 year his‐ Person: tory of the Catholic Summer School of America on the shores of Lake Champlain. With the aid Mailing 98 Ohio Ave Plattsburgh, NY 12903 of local researchers and museum/library ar‐ Address: facts retrieved for the project, the CCHA was Phone: (518) 561-0340 able to document this unique summer camp in a novel way. This exhibit has not only served to E‐mail: director@ clintoncountyhistorical.org open up the Museum’s collecon, it is also used Website: clintoncountyhistorical.org as a plaorm for new research to be displayed in an interacve and smulang environment. This research has engaged university faculty and students, museum docents, board members, teachers and local collectors.

Visitors experience “Summer Sojourns: A History of the Catholic Summer School in Cliff Haven.”

NEIWPCC Code L‐2013‐018 Date Complete: 6/09/2014 Grant Amount: $5,000.00 Non‐federal Match: $4,792.99 Total Amount: $9,792.99 96 2013 CVNHP Local Implementaon Grant Fire Engine Hand Pumper Folk Art

Project Summary Organizaon: Manchester Historical Society Contact A 2013 CVNHP Implementaon Grant funded Dick Smith the restoraon of a unique, 100‐year old, four‐ Person: person hand‐pumper fire engine. The hand‐ Mailing P.O. Box 360 pumper—a piece of ulitarian folk art—was Address: Manchester, VT 05254 purchased new and used in Manchester, Ver‐ mont for many years. In storage for over half a Phone: (802) 362-4314 century, the Manchester Historical Society pre‐ E‐mail: [email protected] served and interpreted the apparatus, which may be loaned for display throughout the Website: www.manchesterhistory.org CVNHP region.

“Lile Eli’s” folk art work has been preserved and interpreted by the Manchester Historical Society.

NEIWPCC Code L‐2013‐019 Date Complete: 12/20/2013 Grant Amount: $4,400.00 Non‐federal Match: $1,605.95 Total Amount: $6,005.95

97 2013 CVNHP Local Implementaon Grant 150th Anniversary of the Jane Sckle Quilt Project Summary Organizaon: Bennington Museum Contact th Robert Wolterstorff The year 2013 marked the 150 anniversary of Person: the Jane Sckle Quilt, which was created in Ver‐ mont during the Civil War. Each year for a six‐ Mailing 75 Main Street week period, the quilt—comprised of 169 five‐ Address: Bennington, VT 05201 inch blocks, each in a different paern, contain‐ ing altogether a remarkable 5,602 pieces sur‐ Phone: (802) 447‐1571 rounded by a unique scalloped border—is put E‐mail: [email protected] on exhibit at the Bennington Museum. The CVNHP provided the museum with a 2013 Website: ww.benningtonmuseum.org CVNHP Implementaon Grant to develop a more powerful exhibion of the Sckle Quilt that develops deeper connecons to the period in Vermont during the Civil War and a more complex understanding of the Shasbury wom‐ an who created it. A new texle board and gal‐ lery space was created for this purpose. Funding also allowed the museum to aend the Vermont Quilt Fesval and the Bennington Quilt Fesval where staff could discuss and interpret the Sckle Quilt. Rack cards for the 2013 exhibit were distributed at these events. In addion, the Bennington Museum was able to update and improve its curriculum for vising students though this grant funding. The Sckle Quilt, on its new quilt rack, was on view during its 100th anniversary from August 31‐October 14, 2013.

NEIWPCC Code L‐2013‐021 Date Complete: 4/14/2014 Grant Amount: $4,967.00 Non‐federal Match: $8,071.18 Total Amount: $13,038.18 98 Technical Reports

99 2014 LCBP Technical Report

Aerial Cover Crop Seeding in the Lake Champlain Basin

Project Summary Organizaon: UVM Extension

This project was developed in response to a Contact Heather Darby connued need to implement new and innova‐ Person: ve ways to successfully establish cover crops on corn silage fields in the Basin. The opmum Mailing University of Vermont Extension fall planng dates for cover crops are oen not Address: 278 S. Main St, met by farmers for a variety or reasons. Aerial St. Albans, VT 05478 seeding a cover crop into a standing cash crop is a way to get a jump on the tradional winter Phone: (802) 524-6501 ext 437 cover crop season. The overall goals of this pro‐ E‐mail: [email protected] ject were to develop an aerial seeding program for 1,500 acres, secure farmer parcipaon in Website: www.uvm.edu/extension/ the program, and document successes and cropsoil challenges with this new approach to cover cropping.

A helicopter aerially seeding over standing corn.

NEIWPCC Code 0100‐306‐027 Date Complete: October 1, 2014 Grant Amount: $100,000.00 Non‐federal Match: Total Amount: $100,000.00 100 2013 LCBP Technical Report

Mapping Impervious Surfaces in the Lake Champlain Basin

Project Summary Organizaon: University of Vermont Spatial Analysis Library High‐resoluon impervious surface mapping was performed for the Lake Champlain Basin with an Contact Jariath O’Neil-Dunne overall accuracy of 99%. The data is being used Person: to improve the accuracy of water quality models Mailing 81 Carrigan Drive, in the region. Address: Aiken Room 205 Impervious surfaces are important anthropo‐ Burlington, VT 05405 genic landscape factors affecng stormwater runoff volume and water quality. To facilitate Phone: 802.656.3324 study and management of these features in the E‐mail: [email protected] Lake Champlain Basin of New York and Vermont, a new impervious surfaces map was created us‐ Website: www.uvm.edu/rsenr/sal/ ing 1‐meter resoluon mulspectral imagery and object‐based image analysis techniques. Two classes were mapped: Roads\Railroads and Other Impervious Surfaces, including driveways, sidewalks, parking lots, buildings, and quarries. but natural impervious surfaces such as rock outcroppings and mountain summits were excluded.

Final impervious surfaces layer for an area near Peru, NY, displayed relave to the source NAIP data.

NEIWPCC Code 0983‐003‐013 Date Complete: October 22, 2013 Grant Amount: $70,000.00 Non‐federal Match: $18,223.00 Total Amount: $88,223.00

101 2013 LCBP Technical Report

Post Tournament Release Movements of Black Bass in Lake Champlain

Project Summary Organizaon: Lake Champlain Research Institute at SUNY Plattsburgh The catch‐and‐release bass tournament industry in North America has a track record of research Contact Dr. Timothy Mihuc and management practices designed to maximize fish Person: survival, and minimize impacts to largemouth Mailing 028b Hudson Hall and smallmouth populaons. Address: SUNY Plattsburgh Despite this history, some quesons regarding Plattsburgh, NY 12901 dispersal of bass in large northern lakes have remained unanswered. Recent research acvi‐ Phone: (518) 564-3039 es on Lake Champlain have uncovered some E‐mail: [email protected] intriguing aspects of bass behavior and respons‐ es to stress associated with angling, transport Website: http://research.plattsburgh.edu/ and weigh‐in at tournaments in Plasburgh, NY. LCRI/ This report offers recommendaons to improve tournament release pracces.

Lake Champlain Research Instute team.

NEIWPCC Code 0100‐306‐016 Date Complete: October 2013 Grant Amount: $67,496.00

Non‐federal Match: $67,496.00 Total Amount: $134,992.00

102 Externally Managed Contracts

103 Externally Managed Contract

Long Term Water Quality and Biological Monitoring Project for Lake Champlain

Project Summary Organizaon: VT DEC/NYS DEC Long term water quality and biological monitor‐ Contact Eric Smeltzer and Person: ing is necessary to detect environmental Fred Dunlap change in Lake Champlain. Environmental indi‐ cators, monitoring staons, monitoring fre‐ Mailing 1 National Life Drive quencies, and sampling procedures have been Address: Montpelier, VT selected for this purpose. Also, stascal con‐ sideraons were applied to opmize the design P.O. Box 296 of the monitoring program. The project will 1115 State Route 86 maintain a database and serve as the basis for Ray Brook, NY 12977 establishing water quality, biological communi‐ ty, and lake environmental health relaonships. The project has been ongoing since 1990. Phone: (802) 490-6131

E‐mail: [email protected] [email protected]

Website: http://www.anr.state.vt.us/ http://www.dec.ny.gov/

NEIWPCC Code 990‐003‐003

Date Complete: OPEN

Grant Amount: LTM‐LCBP: $504,151.00

Non‐federal Match: Total Amount: $504,151.00

104 Externally Managed Contract

Flow Gage Monitoring

Project Summary Organizaon: VT ANR and USGS The primary objecve of this project was to Contact Michaela Stickney (VTANR) compare flow esmates obtained by the U.S. Person: Geological Survey (USGS) using the standard protocols and equipment they would typically Mailing 1 National Life Drive recommend for long‐term monitoring studies Address: Montpelier, VT versus the type of installaon that is normally used in shorter‐ term, research projects. This Phone: (802) 490-6117 comparison will be useful for small watershed E‐mail: [email protected] groups, consultants, and researchers who are Website: http://www.anr.state.vt.us/ likely to install short‐term equipment for a project, but may want to compare their data years or to monitor at an “indicave” level of to other sites where long‐ term, USGS (or oth‐ confidence in the data, a careful applicaon of er agency) measurements have been made. the approach developed for the FMP project Over two field seasons (summer/fall 2010 should be adequate. The authors provide a set and spring/summer/fall 2011) the Flow Mon‐ of recommendaons to guide those who might itoring Project (FMP) staff and the USGS staff wish to employ the FMP approach. collaborated to measure discharge using open‐channel techniques, in six urban‐ impacted streams in Vermont (Bartle, Indi‐ an, Moon, Munroe, Potash, and Stevens). The FMP also measured precipitaon in each watershed. The FMP did not measure flow during the winter

Research staff working on this project con‐ cluded that with care, it is possible to use simple installaons to obtain discharge es‐ mates that agree reasonably well with those that would be made by the USGS in long‐ term studies. There is a trade‐off between cost and quality of data that has to be consid‐ NEIWPCC Code ered when embarking on a new flow moni‐ toring project. In cases where the intenon Date Complete: 3/5/2014 is to monitor for many years with the highest level of confidence in the data, it would be Grant Amount: LCBP $80,000.00 advisable to use control structures (weirs or flumes) and engage technical experts (e.g., Non‐federal Match: the USGS). Somemes this is not possible. If the intenon is to monitor for only a few (<5) Total Amount: $80,000.00 105 Externally Managed Contract

Illicit Discharge Detecon and Eliminaon Project

Project Summary Organizaon: VT DEC/Stone Environmental Six towns parcipated in the Oer Creek Basin Illicit Discharge Detecon and Eliminaon Contact Michaela Stickney (IDDE) Project: Brandon, Middlebury, Pisford, Person: Rutland City, Rutland Town, and Vergennes. The goal of the project was to improve water Mailing 1 National Life Drive quality by idenfying and eliminang contami‐ Address: Montpelier, VT nated, non‐stormwater discharges entering stormwater drainage systems and discharging to the Oer Creek and its tributaries. The pro‐ Phone: (802) 490-6117 ject encompassed the enrety of the municipal E‐mail: [email protected] closed drainage systems in the six parcipang Website: http://www.anr.state.vt.us/ towns. Prior to this project, there had been no assessment of stormwater infrastructure in the parcipang municipalies for the presence of illicit discharges, with the excepon of some opcal brightener monitoring performed at outfalls in the Moon Brook watershed in Rutland City.

Approximately 700 structures were assessed during the inial dry weather screening. A total of 59 suspected illicit discharges were iden‐ fied. Illicit discharges were idenfied in every town except Pisford. Bracket sampling was performed to isolate the sources of contamina‐ on in the drainage systems. In several instanc‐ es, the source of the illicit discharge was appar‐ Dye tesng of toilets in two houses on North ent and the problem has been remedied. Pleasant Street in Middlebury revealed cross Where source of an illicit discharge were less connecons to a stormwater line, visible in apparent and the problem more challenging, Stone worked with the municipalies to find NEIWPCC Code the sources of the contaminated flows detect‐ Date Complete: May 31, 2014 ed and eliminate the illicit discharge. While there were many notable successes in this pro‐ Grant Amount: LCBP $100,000.00 ject, many of the suspected illicit discharges remain unresolved. Discussions are in progress Non‐federal Match: to iniate a Phase 2 project to work with the parcipang towns to further characterize and Total Amount: $100,000.00 pursue elimination of remaining illicit discharges.

106 Externally Managed Contract

Lake Champlain Basin Rural Road Polluon Prevenon Technical Assistance

Project Summary Organizaon: NYS DEC and VT ANR Direct municipal road management assistance Contact Fred Dunlap (NYSDEC) and (of $50,000 in each state) will result in in‐ Person: Michaela Stickney (VTANR) creased BMP implementaon to reduce export of soil and nutrients. Two levels of engagement Mailing 1 National Life Drive will determine unpaved road‐based crical Address: Montpelier, VT source areas of P and sediment producon along with training to reduce road runoff to P.O. Box 296 surface waters. 1115 State Route 86 Ray Brook, NY 12977 The first level of engagement will be increased municipal inventories and capital budget plan‐ Phone: (518) 897-1262 ning that determine where the most serious (802) 490-6117 road problems are located, which contribute E‐mail: [email protected] the highest levels of sediment and phosphorus [email protected] to surface waters (best experienal assessment from municipal officials), and projecons about Website: http://www.dec.ny.gov/ what these repairs or maintenance may cost. http://www.anr.state.vt.us/ The inventory process will be integrated with Stormwater Master Planning concepts into an Before “inventory‐plus” structure that will target cri‐ cal source areas for water polluon remedia‐ on and opons for immediate acon.

The second level of engagement will be training for municipal road professionals. Outcomes include technical assistance in road BMPs for town department of public works crews, re‐ gional transportaon planners, and state agen‐ cy district technicians; road inventories with capital budget and stormwater master plan‐ After ning; and cerficaon in web‐based and stand‐ ard educaonal and training materials. This project builds on proven successes of the Ver‐ NEIWPCC Code N/A mont Beer Backroads Program and Champlain Date Complete: OPEN Watershed Improvement Coalion of NY (CWICNY). Grant Amount: $100,000.00 Non‐federal Match:

Total Amount: $100,000.00 107 Externally Managed Contract

Lake Champlain Basin Agronomy Support and BMP Implementaon

Project Summary Organizaon: VT DEC/NEIWPCC/ NYSDEC Agronomy staff and implementaon funding for this program has been in place since 2011 in Contact Michaela Stickney Vermont and 2012 in New York. Over that Person: Fred Dunlap me, agronomist assistance to farmers has in‐ creased BMP implementaon on small farms to Mailing 1 National Life Drive reduce export of soil and nutrients. The pro‐ Address: Montpelier, VT gram is designed to address the need for direct outreach to small producers who receive less Phone: (802) 490-6117 regulatory oversight, have limited on‐farm la‐ E‐mail: [email protected] bor to aend off‐farm workshops and learn Website: about water quality improvement resources http://www.anr.state.vt.us/ and opportunies, and, because of their size of operaon, have project needs that oen are not as compeve for state and federal cost‐ share programs. The focus on the outreach effort is to inform producers about water quali‐ ty resource concerns on their farms and help them access resources to address the concerns. Connued funding for this task maintains the single agronomist posion in New York and contributes to 2.5 full‐me agronomist posi‐ ons in Vermont that are presently supported by the LCBP at locaons selected by state agen‐ cies, to provide farmers with technical assis‐ tance with nutrient management planning and implementaon of farm pracces. This effort is intended to reduce export of soil and nutrients and improve water quality. Each agronomist is working with approximately 30 ‐ 50 farmers No‐ll corn. each year, to increase implementaon of water quality improvement pracces and improve NEIWPCC Code N/A understanding and management of agricultural Date Complete: water quality issues. Grant Amount: LCBP $1,175,000.00

Non‐federal Match:

Total Amount: $1,175,000.00

108 Externally Managed Contract

LiDAR for Oer Creek

Project Summary Organizaon: VT DEC/USGS This project represents the fourth LiDAR map‐ Contact Michaela Stickney ping project supported with LCBP funds. This Person: mapping project will complete LiDAR mapping for the Oer Creek drainage (478 square Mailing 1 National Life Drive miles), a highly impaired water in Vermont. Address: Montpelier, VT Mapping for the Addison County poron of the Oer Creek occurred under a previous grant Phone: (802) 490-6117 also supported by LCBP. This project also com‐ E‐mail: [email protected] pletes mapping the Northern Lake Champlain area including compleng the Lake Champlain Website: http://www.anr.state.vt.us/ Islands in Grand Isle County and northwest por‐ ons of the Lake Champlain shoreline in New York (203 square miles). Previous mapping in this area was also supported with LCBP funding. This project is acquiring accurate, high‐ resoluon (1.4 meter) Light Detecon and Ranging (LiDAR) data to develop elevaon products including 2 foot contours and 1 meter bare‐earth digital elevaon models (DEM). This informaon can assist in corridor mapping and studies, flood flow frequency modeling, review of infrastructure vulnerability, preliminary pro‐ ject scoping and design, and large scale map‐ ping efforts. Currently, 54% of mapping for this work has occurred. The remainder of mapping will occur in spring 2015. LiDAR mapping requires mulple funding LiDAR map for Oer Creek sources, and LCBP funds have helped secure NEIWPCC Code N/A funding packages for each mapping project. Other funding partners include the US Geologic Date Complete: Survey, US Department of Agriculture – Natural Resource Conservaon Service, Vermont De‐ Grant Amount: $80,508 LCBP partment of Environmental Conservaon, Ver‐ $120,000 LCBP mont Agency of Transportaon, US Forest Ser‐ vice, Internaonal Joint Commission, and Cen‐ tral Vermont Regional Planning Commission. Non‐federal Match: $40,000

Total Amount: $240,508

109 Externally Managed Contract

Skidder Bridge Implementaon in VT & NY

Project Summary Organizaon: VT DEC The Portable Skidder Bridge Iniave connued a successful suite of three programs (described Contact Michaela Stickney below) developed in Vermont and successfully Person: extended to the New York part of the Lake Champlain Basin. Funds were administered Mailing 1 National Life Drive through the Northern Vermont Resource Con‐ Address: Montpelier, VT servaon and Development Council (RC&D) and the Greater Adirondack RC&D with tech‐ Phone: (802) 490-6117 nical assistance provided by the Vermont De‐ partment of Forests, Parks and Recreaon and E‐mail: [email protected] the New York State Department of Environ‐ Website: http://www.anr.state.vt.us/ mental Conservaon.

Portable skidder bridges are designed and in‐ tended for use as temporary structures for crossing streams during logging. They are be‐ coming widely viewed as a Best Management Pracce for controlling nonpoint source pollu‐ on associated with logging operaons. When properly installed, used, and removed, they create less stream bank and stream bed dis‐ turbance as compared to other alternaves such as culverts or poled fords. They are also economical since they are reusable, easy to install and can be transported from job to job. Portable skidder bridges will reduce the poten‐ al for sedimentaon, channeling, and degra‐ Portable skidder bridge daon of aquac habitat to occur while allow‐ ing loggers to harvest mber in compliance with Acceptable Management Pracces (AMPs) for Maintaining Water Quality on Logging Jobs NEIWPCC Code N/A in Vermont. Date Complete: Grant Amount: LCBP $100,000.00

Non‐federal Match:

Total Amount: $100,000.00

110 Staff Products

111 2013-2014 Technical Team Products

Project Ini a ves

• Updatedthe LCBP Standard Opera ng Procedures to be a coordinated component of NEIWPCC Standard Opera ng Procedures, working in close collabora on with NEIWPCC program management.

• Developed two climate change projects to be completed in-house, one focused on stormwater management and the other on aqua c biodiver- sity impacts of climate change. A part- me intern was hired to assist with data collec on and report development.

• Par cipated on a Great Lakes SeaGrant proposal review commi ee, which awarded nearly $2 million in research and outreach programs related to fl ood and coast storm resiliency in Great Lakes and Champlain basins.

• Con nued coordina on and outreach for the Champlain Valley Interna onal Wine Trail and began working towards a pe on to designate the area as an American Vi culture Area, an cipated to be completed next year.

• Conducted a secondary literature search which is currently underway to improve our understanding of the role le drainage may play in delivery of phosphorus loading to Lake Champlain.

Quality Assurance and Data

• Coordinated the review and approval process for 35 quality assurance project plans (QAPPs) for projects requiring data collec on or manipula on.

• Par cipated in a Quality Assurance Audit with NEIWPCC and EPA Region 1 QA Staff in November. EPA had no fi ndings concerning the LCBP quality assurance process as an outcome of this audit.

• A ended a QAPP approval training at NEIWPCC offi ces in April 2014 and are now cer fi ed to review and approve in-house and GLFC funded QAPPs.

• Developed four Request for Proposals (RFPs) and facilitated the outside confi den al review process for these projects.

• Revised the scoring matrix for evalua ng task items.

• Coordinated confi den al review commi ees to evaluate Local Implementa on Grant pollu on preven on project proposals and submi ed recommenda ons for funding to the Execu ve Commi ee for consider- a on. Circulated award no fi ca on le ers, reviewed and approved workplans, and worked with NEIWPCC to execute contracts. More than 20 reviewers were recruited for these processes.

• Applied for and received a $50,000 project to collaborate with the Interna onal Joint Commisision 112 (IJC) Technical Workgroup responsible for inves ga ng fl ood mi ga on strategies for Lake Champlain and the Richelieu River in September 2014. The project involves coordina ng the Technical Workgroup, facilitat- ing public discussion and assembling basin-wide datasets.

Workshops and Commi ees

• Delivered the keynote address at the Champlain Valley Na onal Heritage Partnership Summit in October 2013 in Montreal.

• Review and update OFA tasks, develop and plan State of the Lake 2015 content and release, and worked to develop the AIS economic impact project.

• Coordinated 10 Technical Advisory Commi ee mee ngs, with agendas focused on Final Report reviews, technical presenta ons, and budget discussions. • The Toxic Substances Management Workgroup met in November. • The Aqua c Nuisance Species Subcommi ee met in November.

• Communicated all technical project task items, reports and ini a ves to the LCBP Execu ve and Steering Commi ees.

• Coordinated 6 Total Maximum Daily Load (TMDL) public mee ngs throughout the Vermont por on of the Lake Champlain Basin during FY14. Over 600 members of the public a ended.

• Par cipated in numerous (nearly 100) mee ngs during FY14. These mee ngs consisted of conference calls, mee ngs, workshops or conferences associated with nutrient reduc on, the phosphorus TMDL revision, wa- ter quality monitoring, cyanobacteria, fl ood resilience, management of contracts and subawards, and other topics relevant to the implementa on of Opportuni es for Ac on.

• Organized and led a two-day climate change workshop March 25-26 in Burlington with over 60 a endees and 20 speakers.

• A ended a le drainage research workshop coordinated by the Miner Ins tute in Chazy, NY on October 24. LCBP was a co-sponsor of this event.

• Par cipated in one-day workshops aimed at iden fying and strengthening fl ood resilience capacity and at fl oodplain regula on for the State of Vermont, and con nued work on an ongoing fl ood resilience project with a contractor.

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• Ini ated assembling data and graphics for the 2015 State of the Lake report and presented the graphics to LCBP Advisory Commi ees.

• Updated technical and grant-related aspects of the LCBP website and sends quarterly reminder to partners to update progress on Opportuni es for Ac on online database.

• Worked with a class at Champlain College to develop content for a water quality educa on outreach ini a- ve in conjunc on with Educa on and Outreach staff .

• Co-taught several water quality courses to a group of real- tors seeking con nuing educa on credits in conjunc on with Lake Champlain Sea Grant.

• Assisted coordina ng an environmental biologist confer- ence (NEAEB) in Burlington and facilitated a 1-hour educa- onal session at the conference.

• Completed an advanced GIS course and a website design course during FY14.

AIS Collabora ons

The AIS Management Coordinator par cipates in many external commi ee and partnership mee ngs, including:

• Served as NEANS Panel Council Treasurer and member. The NEANS Panel held their spring mee ng in Bra leboro, VT. Assisted with the review of an applica on to the NEANS Panel’s Rapid Response Fund for water chestnut control in the Connec cut River.

• Served as an advisory commi ee member for an ADK TNC technical project developing an economic im- pact study of AIS in that region. Reviewed and provided comments on the fi nal report for this project.

• Coordinated the Lake Champlain Rapid Response Task Force response to spiny water fl ea in Lake Cham- plain. Facilitated the review of species confi rma on, delinea on of the popula on, species risk assessment, and recommenda ons for spread preven on. Rapid response ac ons were also taken to address a new popula on of water chestnut in Lake Carmi where emergency hand harves ng eff orts were implemented and overseen by VTANR.

• Discussed the status of spiny water fl ea in the Lake Champlain Basin with the Lake Champlain Fish and Wildlife Management Coopera ve.

• Coordinated state le ers of support and agreement of language for the Champlain Canal barrier feasibil- ity study between NYSCC and USACE. The Project Partnership Agreement language has been fi nalized and is being reviewed by USACE.

• Par cipated in the ADK Invasive Species commi ee mee ng and presented the Lake Champlain Basin AIS Rapid Response Plan that will be used to develop a plan for the en re ADK Park. A ended the NYS Invasive 114 Species Advisory Commi ee mee ng to help develop a statewide educa on and outreach campaign for AIS with slogan and logo.

• A ended the NEAPMS mee ng to learn more about the threats of monoecious hydrilla and the NEAEB con- ference to help organize and facilitate stormwater and aqua c organisms and climate change workshops.

• Met as a member of the Northeast Aqua c Plant Management Society Board of Directors in Saratoga, NY to plan the January 2015 conference.

• Trained 6 New York State Canal Corpora on boat launch stewards at the Waterford Visitor’s Center. The stewards received invasive species background training, learned how and where to inspect boats, trailers, and other equipment, collect survey data, and prac ced delivering aqua c invasive species interpre ve mes- sages.

• Facilitated mee ngs with USACE to review the Lake Champlain water chestnut program and worked with NYSDEC to secure a VT harves ng permit to ensure the mechanical harvesters can work on both sides of the south lake.

• A ended the Lake George Mandatory boat wash and decontamina on training with the Lake George Park Commission.

• Assisted with the development of and conducted two of four trainings for NYSDEC campground opera on staff on the new NYSDEC regula on that requires all boats and equipment be cleaned and drained before and a er launch. The two trainings conducted were at Ray Brook and Warrensburg.

• Con nued to work as a member of the Lake George Asian Clam Rapid Response Task Force, and par ci- pated in two conference calls focusing on scien fi c research needs in October and December.

AIS Management

• Revised the Generic Boat Launch Steward QAPP and obtained EPA and NEIWPCC approval. The work plan and budget were prepared for the 2014 fi eld season. Hired and supervised ten stewards. Worked with the boat launch steward data supervisor to review the Lake Champlain data for consistency and to ensure that data collected in the fi eld is uploaded to the cloud.

• Visited stewards in the fi eld to check in and resupply with brochures. The boat launch stewards par cipated in the annual water chestnut survey and pull at Fort Ticonderoga with TNC. All stewards par cipated in an end of the year debrief and fi lled out evalua ons in the end of August. AIS Management Coordinator has been collec ng fi eld gear and all data collec on on the launches ended at the end of September.

• Con nued to track and help facilitate the execu on of the Champlain Canal feasibility barrier study. NEIWPCC and the New York State Canal Corpora on have signed a le er of agreement for the transfer of the LCBP funds to match the USACE Sec on 542 grant to ini ate the Champlain Canal barrier feasibility study. The USACE has reviewed the project coopera on agreement and fi nancial capability documenta on 115 has been fi nalized. The NYSCC boat launch steward program coordinator sent LCBP all their data and organ- ism samples for analysis at the end of August.

• Par cipated in the ADK Invasive Species commi ee mee ng in October, the winter APIPP mee ng in October, and the NY State Invasive Species Council Advisory Commi ee mee ng in December.

• Reviewed and edited a NYS Natural Heritage and Sea Grant project to develop a NY state boat inspec on manual.

• Facilitated the Water Chestnut Workgroup mee ng in December to share management outcomes in 2013, review permit requirements, plan for 2014 management in the Lake Champlain basin and discuss funding needs with partners from QC, NY, and VT.

• Collaborated with regional partners to develop a short white paper on the management perspec ves in regards to Didymosphenia geminata that has been submi ed for publica on in Diatom Research.

AIS Outreach

• Began development of a technical workshop on hydrilla for resource managers and one for the public (lake associa ons and other non-profi ts and monitoring groups) to highlight hydrilla iden fi ca on and manage- ment.

• Collaborated with the Paul Smith’s College, APIPP, and Lake George Associa on to write a white paper on a strategic plan for boat inspec on and decontamina on in the Adirondack region to prevent the landscape level spread of AIS using boat launch steward data combined with litera- ture review. The recommenda ons from the paper were presented to NYSDEC Region 5 and Albany. Final revisions were incorporated into the report. Partners will present and share recommenda ons with partner agencies and organiza ons over the course of the next few months. The recommenda ons were also presented at the NEAEB con- ference in Burlington, VT.

• A ended and completed the iMap Invasives on-line, GIS, mapping tool advanced training to be able to enter inva- sive species into a regional database.

• Worked with LCBP staff to revise the Coopera ve Boat Wash Brochure for VTDEC to print and revised the Lake Champlain Basin Aqua c Invasive Species Iden fi ca on Guide.

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Champlain Basin Educa on Ini a ve

Educa on and Outreach staff helped coordinate and support the eff orts of the Champlain Basin Educa on Ini a ve (CBEI), a consor um of environmental and place-based educa on groups throughout the Lake Champlain Basin. Ac vi es included:

• Coordinated an Alumni Workshop, a day of winter tracking with Sue Morse, na onally recognized wildlife ecologist and professional tracker.

• Coordinated and facilitated of World Water Day, a new ini a ve celebra ng water and student work. Guest speaker Lisa Borre presented A Celebra on of the World’s Amazing Lakes. Seven classrooms from New York, Vermont and Quebec provided entries through photographs, power point presenta ons, and videos. In this inaugural year, all par cipa ng classes received recogni on with the top prize awarded as a trip aboard the Spirit of Ethan Allen.

• Coordinated, facilitated, and delivered of Watershed for Every Classroom (WEC) - In July of 2014, 19 science educators from NY and VT began an explora on of the rich ecological and cultural stories of the Lake Champlain Basin as part of the WEC professional development experience. This 11 day, 5 credit graduate course off ers K-12 teachers inspira on, knowledge and skills to frame exci ng place-based curriculum. At the heart of this approach is the belief that students who are immersed in studying their home place and the watershed that sustains them are more mo vated to care for it. Five CBEI partners work as a team to implement the course.

• Developed and maintained the WEC WIKI, an online tool for par cipants to access all course related materi- als and share resources. Upon comple on of the course, materials will be posted to the WatershED Ma ers website.

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117 Resource Room at ECHO Lake Aquarium and Science Center Educa on and Outreach staff operated the Lake Champlain Resource Room seven days a week, 362 days a year. Fiscal year-end visita on for 2014 totaled 27,574, 23% of ECHO’s visita on. In addi on to day-to-day outreach and interac on with the public, Resource Room staff conducted tailored programs on Lake and Basin issues for classes and other school and community groups, and developed interpre ve signage and exhibit materials. Ac vi es included:

• Completed public educa on programs, presenta ons, and project support for three elementary classes, six college/university classes, and three foreign exchange groups.

• Developed eight new exhibits for the Resource Room and eight seasonal exhibits for ECHO’s main exhibit fl oor.

• Redesigned components of the Resource Room and managed construc on contractors.

• Guided content development on the Edmunds Elementary School 2nd grade iPad e-book project based on ECHO and Resource Room exhibits.

• Ini ated new outreach eff orts, including “Lake Logbook” for tracking and displaying natural events in and around Lake Champlain, “Shorelines”, “Lake Champlain in 1814” Discovery Cabinets; “Mercury” display and “Don’t Play Games with Your Lawn” display on natural lawn care.

• Interpreted zooplankton and phytoplankton using weekly plankton tows from Burlington waterfront and assistance to visitors with iden fying live specimens under microscopes including the spiny waterfl ea, a newly discovered aqua c invasive species in Lake Champlain.

• Presented mul ple public programs on wetlands and sea lamprey.

Mee ngs, Workshops and Conferences Educa on and Outreach staff par cipated in numerous professional events. Ac vi es included:

• Assisted with six public mee ngs held by Vermont ANR and EPA staff to inform the public about the Ver- mont Lake Champlain TMDL and collect comments and feedback.

• Toured four farms in the Pike River with the Vermont Agency of Agriculture and Québec representa ves to examine BMPs installed at a variety of farms.

• Par cipated in the Agricultural Communica ons Work Group to improve communica on 118 among agency partners and the public.

• Facilitated off -site technical and media assistance during LCBP mee ngs and events.

• Installed furnishings and supplies to improve acous cs in conference room at Gordon Center House.

• Par cipated in 5 realtor workshops with Lake Champlain Sea Grant re- garding water quality and shoreline development

Programs and Events

Educa on and Outreach staff par cipated in numerous public outreach events, both as the principal organizer and host, and as exhibitors. Here is a sampling of those events:

• Bombardier: Earth Day Celebra on Pla sburgh, NY

• Camp Ingall’s summer program, North Hero, VT

• Facilitated the 2013 Lake Champlain Farm Award nominees site visit

• LCBP Love the Lake 4-PartLecture Series, Grand Isle, VT

• Lake Champlain Mari me Fes val, Burlington, VT

• North Hero School Summer Camp

• NY Farming in the Basin Twilight Series with LCBP agronomist

• Student Field Days with Clinton County Coopera ve Extension, and Rut- land and Winooski Natural Resource Conserva on Districts

• Teddy Roosevelt Day: Isle La Mo e, VT

• The Big Shabang, Healthy Kids + Healthy Lake = A Healthy Vermont, North Hero, VT

• Vermont Farm Show, Essex, VT

• Vermont Free Fishing Day, Grand Isle, VT

• VT Science Teacher’s Associa on Annual Mee ngs

• Supported Organisme de bassin versant de la baie Missisquoi bilingual educa onal program Water Watch: Suivez le courant on ci zen science and student water quality monitoring.

• More than 25 school programs were completed 119 Print publica ons (brochures, fl yers, reports and other outreach materials) Educa on and Outreach staff developed, designed, and produced numerous outreach pieces for mul ple audiences and events:

• Flyer and agenda for Climate Change Adapta on workshop and NEAEB annual conference

• AIS outreach materials/brochures, poster, and LCBP agricultural exhibit materials for the Vermont Farm Show

• Rack card for the realtor watershed educa on con nuing educa on workshop

• Table and display banners for educa on and outreach events

• Sustainability poster for NEIWPCC annual All Staff Mee ng

• Agendas, fl yers, brochures in support of Watershed for Every Classroom

• Photos for display in the Lake Champlain Mari me Museum’s “Through the Lens” Lake Champlain Basin photography exhibit

• GLFC/LCBP Partnership outreach fl yer

• Posters, maps, and banners for mee ngs and press/media events, including Steering Commi ee and press events with Secretary of Agriculture Tom Vilsack and EPA Administrator Gina McCarthy

• “Post-tournament Bass Dispersal and Survival” outreach fact sheet for tournament organizers

Online/Electronic Media Educa on and Outreach staff maintained electronic media and communica ons tools, includ- ing all LCBP websites (LCBP, CVNHP, Lake Champlain Basin Atlas, Lawn to Lake, WatershED Ma ers, Opportuni es for Ac on, State of the Lake) and social media (Facebook, Twi er, Pin- terest). Staff also maintained IT and telecommunica ons equipment and infrastructure in the Grand Isle offi ce and at the Resource Room. Ac vi es included:

• Con nued development and update of website, including new ac vity and event calendar tool, Basin history meline, new design of Atlas web page templates, and improved search engine op miza on.

120 • Published three edi ons of Casin’ the Basin e-newsle er.

• Coordinated produc on of Trip of the Drip federal partners and Man on the Street videos.

• Converted all LCBP technical reports into digital format available on LCBP website.

• Developed web maps for lcbp.org and Lake Champlain Basin Atlas, including bathymetric and lake bo om data, LCBP grants tracking map, watershed groups map.

• Maintained IT and telecommunica ons infrastructure and offi ce computer hardware and so ware, includ- ing installa on of four new work sta ons in Grand Isle, one new work sta on in Resource Room, migra on to new fi le server, and acquisi on/installa on of plo er.

Champlain Valley Regional Heritage Partnership

Educa on and Outreach staff support the design needs of the CVNHP. Ac vi es included:

• Designed, fabricated, and installed four interpre ve panels at the Valcour rest area on I87, with a focus on the agricultural heritage of Clinton County, New York

• Designed and fabricated ten wayside exhibits developed in Vermont and New York under the Local Heritage Grant program

• Designed Crown Point Bridge map and guide to CVNHP sites.

121 Key Partnerships Key Partners are major stakeholder organiza ons that work in close coopera on with the CVNHP to provide resources and staff to assist in achieving selected goals, objec ves, and specifi c ac- ons described in the CVNHP Management Plan. CVNHP staff :

• Formalized a Key Partnership agreement with long me LCBP/CVNHP partner, the Lake Champlain Mari me Museum. Key Partners are major stakeholder organiza ons that work in close coopera on with the CVNHP to provide resources and staff to assist in achieving selected goals, objec ves, and specifi c ac ons described in the CVNHP Management Plan. State and Federal Partnerships

State and Federal Agency Partnerships refl ect the common interests and goals shared by the CVNHP and established state and federal heritage programs. These partnerships establish work- ing rela onships that include commitments to specifi c shared programs. CVNHP staff worked with the following state and federal partners to carry out ac ons in the CVNHP Management Plan tasks during the repor ng period. CVNHP staff :

• A ended Na onal Park Service workshops in Po stown, PA and Bal more, MD networking and a ending sessions to help strengthen the CVNHP partnership.

• Developed a CVNHP/NPS passport stamp for the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service’s Missisquoi Wildlife Refuge Visitor Center.

• Partnered with The Na onal Heritage Areas of New York State to facilitate the 2012 and 2013 tours of the replica canal schooner, Lois McClure.

• Co-lead eff orts Upper Housatonic River Na onal Heritage Area (UHRNHA) to develop the Western New England Greenway (WNEG), a proposed con guous network of bike routes that connect New York City with Montreal.

• Served on the Vermont Civil War Sesquicentennial Commission (appoint- ed by Governor Peter Shumlin). The CVNHP and the commission intend to collaborate on scholarly conference to mark 150th anniversary of the end of the Civil War in 2015. The Gordon-Center House Passport Stamp Sta on • Supported an American Civil War Conference sponsored by the Vermont Civil War 150th Anniversary Commission and the Vermont Humani es Council (VHC).

• Collaborated with the Vermont Department of Tourism and Marke ng (VDTM) to promote events, announce grant programs, and provide advice in the marke ng of the heritage area. CVNHP staff worked with VDTM 122 to help secure 100 percent ($295,000) of the non-federal matching funds required for the contract between NEIWPCC and NPS.

• Developed a CVNHP/NPS passport stamp sta on and updated interpre ve materials at the historic Gordon- Center House in Grand Isle, which is owned by the Vermont Department of Fish and Wildlife and serves as the headquarters of the CVNHP and LCBP.

• Developed a CVNHP/NPS passport stamp sta on for the Lake Champlain Visitors Center, which is managed by the Essex County Regional Offi ce of Sustainable Tourism, and is owned and maintained by New York State Department of Environmental Conserva on

• Partnered with the New York Department of Trans- porta on and the Adirondack Coast Visitors Bureau, the Clinton County Historical Associa on, and the Clinton County Historian to develop permanent dis- plays focused on the agricultural heritage of Clinton County, and that highlight the CVNHP interpre ve theme “Conserva on and Community.”

• Developed a CVNHP/NPS passport stamp sta on for the Pla sburgh State Art Museum, State University of New York (SUNY). NYSDOT employees with the new interpre ve panels at Valcour Rest Area in Peru, New York. Collabora ve Partnerships Collabora ve Partnerships are developed between the LCBP and stakeholder organiza ons that wish to focus on specifi c por ons of the CVNHP Management Plan that are suppor ve of their own missions. CVNHP staff :

• Collaborated with the Lake Champlain Mari me Museum to support the “1814: The Ba le for Lake Cham- plain” tour of the replica schooner Lois McClure along the interconnected waterways of Lake Champlain, the Champlain and Chambly Canals, and the Hudson and Richelieu Rivers. The tour promoted heritage tourism, water quality, aqua c nuisance species, and the region’s fi sheries and how they have been impacted by the changing landscape.

• Recruited volunteers to review mul ple grant categories, nego ated workplans and served as a grant liaison for more than 20 small grants year the two year period.

Wayside Exhibit Program Started by the LCBP in 2001, the program provides free design services (a $600-$700 value) to communi es and organiza ons that wish to u lize the interpre ve sign content detailed in the LCBP Wayside Exhibit Manual. CVNHP staff :

• Facilitated the development of ten wayside exhibits including topics such as the Civil War, the War of 1812, and the commercial evolu on of Communi es in the Champlain and Upper Hudson river Valleys with an emphasis on water uses. 123 The War of 1812 Interpre ve Trail expanded Wayside Exhibits focused on the Civil War were in 2013. emphasized in 2013.

Regional Stakeholder Groups

The CVNHP staff is assisted by a broad network of regional stakeholder groups (RSGs) to provide input in the management of the CVNHP. Since 2012, the RSGs have assisted in developing the CVNHP annual workplan and budget. CVNHP staff :

• Met with 11 county RSGs throughout the year. CVNHP provides small amounts of funding to support local groups who coordinate county eff orts for the network. The Champlain Valley Interna onal Wine Trail

The Champlain Valley Interna onal Wine Trail was designed to encourage the tourism economy and to interpret peoples’ interac on with the working landscapes. There are currently 68 vineyards and wineries from NY, VT, and Quebec par ci- pa ng in the Champlain Valley Interna onal Wine Trail which provides informa on to travelers, wine afi cionados, and agri- tourists. CVNHP staff : The CVNHP is 9,000 square miles and includes 11 U.S. coun es • Developed a website (www.champlainvalleynhp.org/winetrail) that hosts an interac ve map and created a Facebook page (h ps://www. facebook.com/ChamplainValleyWineTrail) to help facilitate informa on sharing and public outreach. Organiza onal Capacity Building The CVNHP provided assistance in organiza on capacity building to ten regional partners includ- ing Adirondack Coast Visitors Bureau, City of Pla sburgh, New York, Ethan Allen Homestead, Friends of Northern Lake Champlain, Lake Champlain Byways, Lakes to Locks Passage, Shires of Vermont (Bennington County), Town of Manchester, Vermont, Vermont Grape and Wine Coun- cil, CLD Brome-Missisquoi (Quebec), and Adirondack Coast Visitors Bureau, and the Vermont Civil War Sesquicentennial Commission. 124