Lake Champlain Lake Champlain BasinBasin ProgramProgram 2016 Report of Activities: Appendix 2017 Report of Activities Local Implementation Grants QUÉBEC Franklin (17 grants) Grand Isle Clinton (3 grants) (9 grants) Orleans Lamoille (6 grants) Chittenden Caledonia (40 grants) Franklin Washington Essex (20 grants) (19 grants) Orange Addison (12 grants) NEW YORK VERMONT Warren (18 grants) Rutland (11 grants) Windsor Washington (7 grants) Funds Administered in 2017 No Funds Awarded Bennington < $50,000 $50,000– $100,000 $101,000 – $200,000 > $200,000 Pollution Aquatic Prevention Invasive Species $1,593,881 Sum of grants administered by LCBP staff in FY 2017 Flood Resilience Impervious Local implementation grants Surfaces 162 administered by LCBP at Schools Org Support Org Support for Categories of local Education Road Maintenance & 8 implementation grants Outreach administered CVNHP Note: Grants administered in FY 2017 were funded with budgets from multiple years. TABLE OF CONTENTS INTRODUCTION . 1 SECTION ONE: CLEAN WATER . 3 IN PROGRESS ENHANCED BEST MANAGEMENT PRACTICES BMP Prioritization & Design in the Mad River Headwaters . 7 Clinton County Shared Vacuum Trailer . 8 Inventory and Assessment of Roof Drains in the Combined Sewer Service Area of Montpelier, Vermont . 9 Lake George Stormwater Runoff Direct Discharge Reduction Project . 10 Pinnacle at Spear Stormwater Improvements . 11 Sanitary Sewer Utility Mapping to reduce Occurrence of Combined Sewer Overflows and Stormwater Master Planning for Vergennes, VT . 12 South Lake Champlain Shoreline Stabilization and Runoff Reduction Project . 13 Village of Fort Ann Wastewater Treatment Plant Upgrade Plan and Concept Design . 14 FLOOD RESILIENCE AND CLIMATE CHANGE Building a Flood Resilient Northfield . 15 New Haven River Watershed Flood Adaptation Project . 16 Northwest Vermont Climate Navigators . 17 Tools for Resilience in the Mad River Watershed . 18 IMPERVIOUS SURFACES AT SCHOOLS Cabot School Stormwater Reduction Project . 19 School Stormwater Audits . 20 Stormwater Mitigation at Cambridge Elementary School . 21 INNOVATIVE AGRICULTURE Development of an Approach and Tool to Optimize Farm Scale P Management and Achieve Watershed Scale Loading . 22 Feasability Evaluation of P Removal via Engineered Ecosystems in the St Albans Bay Watershed . 23 POLLUTION PREVENTION AND HABITAT CONSERVATION Bank Stability and Invasive Species Assessment on the Ausable River . 24 BTV Blue®: Enhanced Residential Stormwater Management Cost-Sharing Framework Development and Implementation . 25 CWICNY Rain Harvesting Project . 26 Evaluating Stormwater Pond Performance and Opportunities for Improvement: Using floating restorers to improve stormwater pond efficiency in S Burlington . 27 Green Stormwater Infrastructure in the Moon and Tenney Brook Watersheds. 28 Hazardous Soil Removal from the Boquet River Banks . 29 Huntington Garage Stormwater Practice Construction . 30 Nesti Swale Phosphorus Pollution Mitigation Project . 31 Phosphorus Loading in the Flower Brook Subwatershed . 32 Protecting and Restoring Floodplain Forests for Wildlife and Recreation . 33 Protecting Northern Lake Champlain through Farmer-to-Farmer Implementation of Agricultural Practices . 34 Reducing Phosphorus Loading and Improving Fish Habitat and Connectivity within Texas Hill Tributary Huntington, VT . 35 Shelburne Community School Stormwater Retention . 36 Smilie School Stormwater Mitigation Project . 37 St Albans City Stormwater Reduction and Treatment . 38 Stormwater Pond Floating Treatment Wetland -Season III . 39 Using Microbial Source Tracking to Identify and Prevent Fecal Pollution to Cumberland Bay . 40 UVM Votey Building Bioretention Garden . 41 Warren County 2017 Habitat Improvement Project . 42 TECHNICAL PROJECTS Agricultural Practice Monitoring and Evaluation in the Vermont Portion of the Lake Champlain Basin . 43 Assessment of Tile Drainage System Impacts to Lake Champlain and Phosphorus Loads in Tile Drainage Water in the Jewett Brook Watershed of St. Albans Bay . 44 Garrant Farm Soil Health Tests . 45 High Resolution Land Use/Land Cover Mapping for the Lake Champlain Basin . 46 Human and Ecosystem Health Risks of Mercury and Cyanotoxins in Lake Champlain . 47 Little Chazy Tributary Gage . 48 Multi-Partner Agricultural Conservation Practice Tracking and Planning Database . 49 North Country Creamery Grazing Improvement Project . 50 North Country School Grazing Improvement . 51 Operation and Maintenance of Lake Champlain Meteorological Stations . 52 Streamflow monitoring of the West Branch Little River, Stowe, VT . 53 Volunteer Coordination and Training for the Lake Champlain Cyanobacteria Monitoring Program . 54 WWTF Asset Management . 55 CONCLUDED FLOOD RESILIENCE AND CLIMATE CHANGE Champlain Valley Union High School Flood Resiliency Demonstration Project . 56 Plainfield Community Resilience Organization/Streambank Stabilization . 57 IMPERVIOUS SURFACES AT SCHOOLS Smilie School Stormwater Master Plan . 58 Stowe Elementary Green Stormwater Infrastructure Plan . 59 POLLUTION PREVENTION AND HABITAT CONSERVATION Huntington Town Garage and Office Stormwater . 60 Lake George Association Stream Habitat Improvement . 61 McKenzie Brook Stream Bank Stabilization . 62 Preventing the Spread of Antibiotic Resistance in Lake Champlain and Urban Water Systems . 63 Protecting Northern Lake Champlain through Farmer-to-Farmer Implementation of Agricultural Conservation Practices . 64 St. Albans Town Hall Rain Garden . 65 Stormwater Mitigation in the Munroe Brook Watershed . 66 Stormwater Solutions in Lamoille County 2 . 67 Town of Dresden Salt Barn Reconstruction Project . 68 Tree Guard Removal for Stream Bank Stabilization . 69 TECHNICAL PROJECTS Addressing Critical Source Areas in the Missisquoi Bay Watershed by Implementing Conservation Field Practices . 70 Ben Harris Animal Trails & Walkways Upgrade . .71 Cover Crop New Users . .72 Development of Advanced Flood Recovery and River Management Training Modules . .73 Dew Drop Drill.