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  • Achieving Water Quality Standards Through Collaboration and Problem-Solving

    Achieving Water Quality Standards Through Collaboration and Problem-Solving

    NEIWPCC Commissioner Pete LaFlamme Shares His Perspectives From protecting Lake Champlain to managing biosolids: In this new video, commissioner Pete LaFlamme praises NEIWPCC staff for their collaborative efforts across the Northeast region to improve water quality. LaFlamme, director of the Watershed Management Division at the Vermont Department of Environmental Conservation, speaks of the many invaluable…

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  • A Regional Approach to Hydrilla Management

    While Lake Champlain is host to 51 known nonnative and invasive aquatic species, Hydrilla verticillata has not yet been found in Lake Champlain – and there’s a multi-state effort to keep it that way. “Hydrilla has been coined as the almost “perfect weed” by the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers due to its rapid growth…

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  • Addressing Emerging Contaminants

    By Christina Stringer In 1962, the landmark work “Silent Spring” posed the question, “Can anyone believe it is possible to lay down such a barrage of poisons on the surface of the Earth without making it unfit for all life?” Rachel Carson’s exploration of the negative effects of DDT — an insecticide used in agriculture…

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  • NEIWPCC Launches Clean Water Success Story Project

    NEIWPCC Launches Clean Water Success Story Project

    Fifty years after the passage of the federal Clean Water Act (CWA) – and many successes later – a new EPA-funded grant will focus on sharing these accomplishments. NEIWPCC will collect and produce stories highlighting program achievements covering a diverse array of CWA Section 303(d): Impaired Waters and Total Maximum Daily Loads (TMDLs) topics. The…

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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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  • Meeting Challenges in Modernizing the Clean Water Act

    Meeting Challenges in Modernizing the Clean Water Act

    By Heather Radcliffe October 2022 marks the 50th anniversary of the Clean Water Act (CWA) and 35 years since its last major amendments. While there is much to celebrate — undeniably, significant progress in water quality has been made since 1972 — it is time to move forward from boasting that our rivers no longer…

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  • The “Only Girl in the Room:” NEIWPCC Commissioner Jane Stahl Reflects on Career

    The “Only Girl in the Room:” NEIWPCC Commissioner Jane Stahl Reflects on Career

    When Jane Stahl began her environmental career in the late 1970s, it was – not surprisingly – a male-dominated field. She did not let this deter her, and worked as an environmental policymaker, regulator and consultant during her career. Notably, she served as deputy commissioner of the Connecticut Department of Energy and Environmental Protection for…

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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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  • Defining WOTUS

    By Richard Friesner The Clean Water Act (CWA) has fundamentally altered how Americans, and the world, interact with one of our most basic parts of the environment. The definition of “Waters of the United States” (WOTUS) provides the basis for the CWA and determines the extent of federal legal jurisdiction for all the other requirements…

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  • Reflecting on 50 Years of the Clean Water Act

    Reflecting on 50 Years of the Clean Water Act

    By Susan J. Sullivan 1972. Some of you were children, others were environmental advocates and college students, and many not even born. Yet 1972 was the year one of the most important pieces of legislation was enacted by the United States Congress and signed into law by the president. The Clean Water Act (CWA), also…

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