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Clean water investment paying off, State says

Posted on The Whole Story by David Flemming · February 04, 2021 3:20 PM · 1 reaction

February 2, 2021 – The Vermont Department of Environmental Conservation (DEC) recently released the Vermont Clean Water Initiative 2020 Performance Report. The Report summarizes how the state’s $194 million investment in water quality over the past five years is paying off by improving water quality in Vermont’s rivers, lakes, and wetlands.

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State fines landowners for removing shoreline vegetation – VT Digger

Posted on The News by David Flemming · January 26, 2021 4:20 PM · 2 reactions

The Department of Environmental Conservation has issued a $5,250 fine to a couple and their contractor who removed vegetation along 200 feet of shoreline of Lake Sadawga in Whitingham.

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Dairy farms must go, lake clean-up advisory group hears - VPR

Posted on The News by David Flemming · January 05, 2021 3:58 PM · 2 reactions

Cause of Lake Champlain pollution? Cows. Cause of CO2 emissions? Yep - cows. Cows. Solution: hamburger, hold the cheese.

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Leahy’s “Ecosystems Payment Program” pays farmers for clean water - St. Albans Messenger

Posted on The News by David Flemming · October 20, 2020 4:14 PM · 1 reaction

A new federal program spearheaded by Sen. Patrick Leahy has $7 million to pay farmers who reduce runoff and keep Vermont waters clean. Leahy also has managed to delay for a year the implementation of hemp growing guidelines, which Vermont farmers would have struggled to meet. Oh - and Leahy and Bernie Sanders also want the federal government to release federal LIHEAP funding earlier than usual, to help Vermonters struggling to pay their heating fuel bills.

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Clean water, anti-F35 firebrand Ehlers seeks Senate, House seats- VT Digger

Posted on The News by David Flemming · October 05, 2020 4:18 PM · 1 reaction

A former - emphasis on the “former” - U.S. naval officer, fishing competition organizer, and GOP campaign volunteer is running for both the Vermont House and Senate as an independent. Now a union organizer, James Ehlers wants nothing more now than to kick the F-35 out of Vermont and, for pete’s sake, stop polluting Lake Champlain.

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Swanton’s Maquam Bay stinks! - St. Albans Messenger

Posted on The News by David Flemming · September 03, 2020 4:09 PM

It’s been a dry summer and the phosphorus continues to pour into Franklin County’s Maquam Bay. Result - a bad odor that has summer residents upset.

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Enviro groups insist on enforcement of ‘three-acre’ runoff permits - VT Business Magazine

Posted on The News by David Flemming · August 20, 2020 3:52 PM

The State of Vermont must get serious about its requirement forcing any property owner with more than three acres of developed, impervious surfaces (such as parking lots) to pay hugely expensive stormwater runoff fees, environmental groups demanded in a recently-issued statement.

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State plots next five years for Northern Lake Champlain — Milton Independent

Posted on The News by David Flemming · July 20, 2020 7:22 PM

Another plan to clean the Lake. Will this one deliver results?

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Vermont poised for “F” grade on Lake Champlain cleanup - VT Digger

Posted on The News by David Flemming · July 15, 2020 3:41 PM · 2 reactions

Whatever Vermont has done to clean up Lake Champlain, it’s not good enough, say the feds. At this rate we won’t meet a key September 4 deadline. The dreaded, hugely expensive three-acre phosphorus runoff regulation may need to be enforced after all.

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NEK pond first in state to be removed from impaired waters list – Essex Reporter

Posted on The News by David Flemming · July 10, 2020 4:41 PM

Finally, a bit of good news!

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