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Thanks to a Department of Environmental Conservation train-the trainer grant, Watersheds United Vermont held a series of trainings over the last two years on site prioritization, landowner outreach and riparian buffer planting. WUV partnered with the White River Partnership (WRP), the Poultney Mettowee Natural Resources Conservation District (PMNRCD) and The Nature Conservancy to conduct these trainings.
We are pleased to announce the release of the WUV Design and Implementation Grant. WUV was awarded a Vermont Department of Environmental Conservation (DEC) Design and Implementation Block Grant to distribute $500,000 to watershed groups and partner organizations for design and implementation of clean water projects over the next two years. All project work and reporting must be complete by October 31, 2021.
Watershed groups and Partners are invited to the WUV Fall meeting on December 7, 2019 at the Waterbury Town Offices in Waterbury!
Thanks to a DEC partnership train-the-trainer grant, WUV teamed up with Watershed Consulting and AES Consulting to present two trainings on stormwater project management for watershed groups and conservation districts. The trainings were in June of 2018 in St. Albans, Vermont and July of 2018 in Rutland, Vermont.
Please Register for the WUV Spring Meeting!
April 9, 2019. 8:30am - 3:30pm. Waterbury Town Offices. 28 North Main Street, Waterbury. Steele Room. We hope you can join us for a gathering of watershed groups and partner organizations. We will have concurrent workshop options: a collaborative session on stormwater education and outreach and restoring riparian buffers in sites with invasives. Other sessions include financial management for nonprofits watershed group identity and an opportunity for groups to share on successful education programs. The conference is free. WUV will provide coffee and pastries and snacks. Please bring your own bag lunch (or there are some nearby restaurants and cafes).
Please join us for the Watersheds United Vermont and Lake Champlain Basin Program Fall Watershed Groups Conference.
The conference will be held November 13, 2018 from 9:00 to 3:30 at Main Street Landing in Burlington. The conference is open to watershed groups, conservation districts and partner organizations.
I had the pleasure of joining Michele Braun, Friends of the Winooski River, and Mary Russ, White River Partnership, on the Dave Gram show on WDEV this on Friday, August 24th.
Watersheds United Vermont held two worshops on stormwater management for watershed groups and conservation districts in conjunction with Becky Tharp from Watershed Consulting Associates and Ann Smith from AES Consultants (formerly Friends of the Winooski River) - one on June 30th in St. Albans and the other on July 10th in Rutland. More than 30 watershed professionals participated in the trainings spanning all four of Vermont's major watersheds - Lake Champlain, Connecticut River, Lake Memphremagog and Hudson River drainages.
WUV's spring meeting on April 2, 2018 and the Vermont Law School had 53 participants from watershed groups, Conservation Districts, State and Federal Agencies, RPC's and other partner organizations.
WUV is pleased to be working with Becky Tharp of Watershed Consulting Associates and Ann Smith of AES Consulting to provide stormwater management training to watershed groups and conservation districts. We will offer two half-day trainings (one in the northwest part of Vermont and one TBD) at the end of June/early July. The intention of the training is to expand groups’ ability to manage stormwater projects in your watershed.