Otter Creek Basin Planning: A monthly update of basin planning
activities in the Otter Creek Basin (which includes the Lewis Creek
watershed) during the month of September (PDF version). Please
contact Ethan
Swift (802) 747-5070 for additional information!
River Corridor Plan: Lewis Creek M19 to M22,
Starksboro Valley
Wildlife Habitat Planning and
Analysis
Mad River
Groundwater Assessment Project - LCA will be gearing up to do a
similar project for the Lewis Creek water table. It's cool to
know your groundwater!
EPA's
"Ounce of Prevention"
groundwater guide for
town planners and local stewardship managers.
Best management
practices for
stormwater planning. Take advice from those who know. Our
friends in New Jersey can speak from experience.
Center for Rural Studies - note LCA's Build Out Program.
VT River Management Program's River Corridor Plan Guide, February
2007
Lewis Creek Association asked Kristen
Underwood and Evan Fitzgerald to host a discussion about methods for
mapping impervious surface.
Evan presented his thesis research
from South Burlington. For this data, please contact
Evan Fitzgerald.
Kristen reviewed results of a 2004 Municipal Planning Grant she
completed along with Chris Davis of Weybridge, VT for the towns of
Charlotte and Hinesburg.
Download a copy of the
report.
Then they had a discussion about methods of estimating impervious
surface, relevance of impervious surface % to geomorphic and habitat
conditions, and planning/zoning strategies that rural towns could
undertake to prevent stream impacts resulting from growing
development.
One important theme that came up was the dominance of road and
driveway networks in the composition of impervious surfaces in rural
towns (discussed a bit further in the MPG report). Evan’s research
also shows a possible lower threshold for negative impacts of
impervious surfaces in the smaller-sized subwatersheds (such as the
headwaters regions of Starksboro, Hinesburg).
