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  • A New Approach to Stream Health in the Lake Champlain Basin

    Meet Stream Wise: a new program that works to bring neighbors together to protect and restore healthy waterways across the Lake Champlain region. The goal of the program is to educate and engage streamside property owners to enhance and protect vegetated stream buffers on their land. Stream buffers provide increased flood resiliency and benefit water…

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  • Updated “Opportunities for Action” to Guide Lake Champlain Management

    During a lakeside event on June 3, the Lake Champlain Basin Program (LCBP) released an update to its  management plan, “Opportunities for Action: An Evolving Plan for the Future of the Lake Champlain Basin.” U.S. Senator Patrick Leahy, representatives from New York, Vermont, and Québec, and EPA officials from Boston and New York City were in…

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  • New Resources Aid in Identifying, Preventing and Managing Harmful Cyanobacteria Blooms

    The Interstate Technology and Regulatory Council (ITRC) in collaboration with the Lake Champlain Basin Program (LCBP), a NEIWPCC program partner, have developed new educational and technical materials to help lake managers, health professionals, and others interested in cyanobacteria response, identify and manage cyanobacteria blooms in the Lake Champlain watershed. The team created the new tools…

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  • Lake Champlain has a New Ambassador: The Spiny Softshell Turtle

    Lake Champlain has a New Ambassador: The Spiny Softshell Turtle

    The Granby Zoo, located in Granby, Québec, launched a “spiny project,” using the threatened eastern spiny softshell turtle as the face of their public outreach and stewardship programs in communities along the northern portion of Lake Champlain in Québec. The Lake Champlain Basin Program (LCBP), a NEIWPCC program partner, funded the project. “Using the iconic…

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  • Dam Removal Improves Water Quality, Flood Resilience, and Fish Habitat

    In August 2021, the Lake Champlain Basin Program worked with the Franklin County Natural Resources Conservation District to oversee the removal of the Johnsons Mill Dam, located along the Bogue Branch in Bakersfield, VT. After decades of disuse, the stone and concrete dam was in a state of deterioration and recommended for removal by the…

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  • Lake Champlain Basin Program Seeks Proposals for Projects to Improve Water Quality

    The Lake Champlain Basin Program (LCBP), a NEIWPCC program partner, has announced a request for technical pre-proposals for services to further the goals and objectives of the Lake Champlain management plan, “Opportunities for Action.” The total request for each project may range from $25,000 to $300,000 with an anticipated start date of early 2023. Applicants may…

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  • New Podcast to Focus on Riparian Forest Restoration

    Lake Champlain has a problem, and a new podcast aims to help. Currently, water quality conditions of the Lake Champlain basin fail to meet Clean Water Act standards for phosphorus, a nutrient pollutant primarily from nonpoint sources that stimulates excessive algae growth. One way to limit phosphorus inputs to improve water quality is by restoring…

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  • 2021 Lake Champlain State of the Lake and Ecosystems Indicators Report Now Available

    2021 Lake Champlain State of the Lake and Ecosystems Indicators Report Now Available

    Every three years, the Lake Champlain Basin Program (LCBP), a NEIWPCC program partner, releases an updated “State of the Lake and Ecosystems Indicators Report.” The report assesses recent conditions of Lake Champlain through a series of ecosystem indicators and is used by resource managers and the public. “The “2021 State of the Lake and Ecosystem…

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