Description:funding This Award Will Help To Implement The Lake Champlain Management Plan In The Vermont Portion…

Purpose

Environmental Protection Agency awarded $11.5M to Department Of Environmental Conservation Vermont for Description:funding this award will help to implement the lake champlain management plan in the vermont portion of the lake champlain basin as identified in clean water act section 120. these projects will help improve and/or evaluate the water quality and ecological health of the lake champlain basin by conducting lake champlain's long-term water quality, biological, and cyanotoxin monitoring program, coordinating with the lake champlain basin program, flood resiliency capacity building, and water chestnut mapping and removal. work to support implementation of the 2016 lake champlain total maximum daily load for phosphorus will also address loading through best management practice implementation, wastewater treatment facility asset management planning, continued support…