Report of Activities 2019 TABLE OF CONTENTS INTRODUCTION . 1 CLEAN WATER . 3 ENHANCED BEST MANAGEMENT PRACTICES Ahead of the Storm Implementation Projects on Champlain Valley School District Campuses . 5 BMP Prioritization & Design in the Mad River Headwaters . 6 Chazy River Watershed Management Plan . 7 Clinton County Shared Vacuum Trailer . 8 Foster Brook Culvert Replacement . 9 I-87 Asphalt Swale Replacement & Ditch Improvements . 10 Inventory and Assessment of Roof Drains in the Combined Sewer Service Area of Montpelier, Vermont . 11 Kennedy Drive Pond 5/6 Retrofit . 12 Reducing Combined Sewer Overflows to Lake Champlain through Public Private Partnerships and Innovative Technology. 13 Retrofit of Pinnacle at Spear Stormwater Pond A . 14 South Lake Champlain Shoreline Stabilization and Runoff Reduction Project . 15 Stormwater Mitigation Final Designs: Berlin, Vermont . 16 The Prioritization and Design of Transportation Stormwater Mitigation Projects in Northwestern Vermont . 17 Transforming Hyde Park Village Center into a Net Zero Runoff Showcase Using Green Stormwater Infrastructure . 18 Village of Fort Ann Wastewater Treatment Plant Upgrade Plan and Concept Design . 19 INNOVATIVE AGRICULTURE Development INNOVATIVE of AGRICULTURan Approach and Tool to Optimize Farm Scale P Management and Achieve Watershed Scale Loading . 20 Feasability Evaluation of P Removal via Engineered Ecosystems in the St Albans Bay Watershed . 21 Tile Drain Base Flow Phosphorus Removal Using St. George Black . 22 Tile Drainage System Monitoring and Assessment in the Northern and Southern Lake Champlain Basin, and Comparing Two Active Media Filters to Remove Phosphorus from Tile Drainage Water in the St. Albans Bay Watershed, VT . 23 POLLUTION PREVENTION AND HABITAT CONSERVATION Carriage Hill Stormwater Retrofit Project . 24 Cost-Benefit Analysis of Proposed Actions Needed to Reduce Phosphorus Loads from the Rock River Subwatershed to Missisquoi Bay by 40% . 25 Developing a Riparian Protocol for the Ausable Watershed . 26 Enhancing the Benefits of Cover Crops through Innovative Roller-Crimper Technology . 27 Franklin Watershed Committee Pollution Prevention and Habitat Conservation . 28 Great Chazy-Saranac Watershed Culvert Assessment . 29 Green Stormwater Infrastructure for Reduction and Treatment of Stormwater . 30 Green Stormwater Infrastructure in the Moon and Tenney Brook Watersheds . 31 Headwaters to South Lake, Implementation without Borders . 32 Installation of Precast Pervious Concrete in the Village of Lake George . 33 Missisquoi River’s Highgate Falls Portage Trail Stormwater Management Project . 34 Montpelier Chestnut Hill Stormwater Mitigation Design . 35 Montpelier High School Green Stormwater Design . 36 Montpelier Riparian Area Restoration: Invasive Removal and Erosion Prevention . 37 Phosphorus Loading in the Flower Brook Subwatershed . 38 Pollution Control and Preserving Water Quality by Promoting the Replacement of Outdated Septic Systems . 39 Protecting Northern Lake Champlain through Farmer-to-Farmer Implementation of Agricultural Practices . 40 Quaker Road MS4 Stormwater and Habitat Improvement Project . 41 Quarry Dam Removal Project . 42 Rain Garden and Bioretention Practice at VSECU . 43 Reducing Stormwater Runoff and Improving Access to the Lamoille River . 44 Riparian Forest Stewardship and Enhancement . 45 Riparian Forest Stewardship in the Winooski and Missisquoi Watersheds . 46 Road Salt Reduction Program . 47 Shelburne Community School Stormwater Retention . 48 Shelburne Community School Stormwater Retention and Control of Flowering Rush in Town Farm Bay . 49 The Mad River Watershed Addreses Stormwater Pollution with Collective Landowner Action . 50 Trees for Streams 2018: Riparian Restoration on Muddy Brook, Allen Brook, and LaPlatte River within the Lake Champlain Watershed . 51 Trout and Missisquoi River Riparian Buffers . 52 PROGRAM GRANTS Agricultural Practice Monitoring and Evaluation in the Vermont Portion of the Lake Champlain Basin . 53 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 . 54 Basin-Wide Implementation of a Farm Phosphorus Management to Reduce P Loading and Improve Farm Viability . 55 Cedar Valley Farm Farmstead Milk House Waste BMP . 56 2019 Clinton County SWCD Ag BMP Implementation . 57 Clinton County Cover Crop Implementation . 58 Cyanobacteria Monitoring Program 2018 . 59 Dam Removal in the Lake Champlain Basin . 60 Essex County Rotational Grazing and Cover Crop Project . 61 Evaluating Floodplain Potential for Sediment and Nutrient Retention . 62 Implementation of Whole Farm Nutrient Management to Reduce P Loading and Improve Farm Vialbility . 63 IRTC Harmful Cyanobacterial Blooms (HCBs) Team . 64 Lake Champlain Committee Volunteer Coordination and Training for the Lake Champlain Cyanobacteria Monitoring Program . 65 Little Chazy Tributary Gage . 66 North Country Creamery Grazing Improvement Project . 67 North Country School Grazing Improvement . 68 Operation and Maintenance of Lake Champlain Meteorological Stations . 69 Quantifying P Retention in Restored Riparian Wetlands of the Lake Champlain Basin . 70 Rock River Geomorphic Assessment . 71 St Albans Public-Private Partnership Stormwater Demonstration Project . 72 Streamflow Monitoring of the West Branch Little River, Stowe, VT . 73 Trees for Streams . 74 HEALTHY ECOSYSTEMS . 75 AQUATIC INVASIVE SPECIES Adaptive Cormorant Management on Lake Champlain . 77 AIS River Steward for the Ausable River/Northern Champlain Region, NY . ..