Pomfret, VT, March 22, 2013 – Residents of New Hampshire, Vermont and beyond can celebrate World Water Day by supporting river restoration projects in the Connecticut River watershed. March 22nd was designated World Water Day by the United Nations in 1993 as a day to highlight water issues around the world. The theme for the [...]

Middletown, CT, Friday, March 22, 2013. – Connecticut River Watershed Council (CRWC) river steward Jacqueline Talbot recently participated in an educational and cultural exchange program entitled “Empowering Women though Social Entrepreneurship,” at the invitation of the University of Connecticut’s Global Training & Development Institute in partnership with the U.S. Department of State’s Professional Fellows Program. The [...]

Greenfield, MA, March 22, 2013.  – The Connecticut River Watershed Council (CWRC) is proud to highlight a number of local events throughout the Connecticut River watershed celebrating World Water Day. March 22nd was designated World Water Day by the United Nations in 1993 as a day to highlight water issues around the world. The theme [...]

March 9, 2012 Marie Levesque Caduto, Watershed Coordinator VT ANR I Dept. of Environmental Conservation 100 Mineral Street, Suite 303 Springfield, VT 05156-3168  CRWC comments on the Final Draft Basin 10 Water Quality Management Plan As the primary citizen watchdog and steward of the Connecticut River from source to sea, the Connecticut River Watershed Council [...]

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE – March 7, 2013 CONTACT:                                                                                                    Andrew Fisk, Executive Director, afisk@ctriver.org, 413-772-2020 ext.208, 413-210-9207 (cell) Andrea Donlon, Massachusetts River Steward, adonlon@ctriver.org, 413-772-2020 ext.205 Greenfield, MA – March 1st marked a major deadline for public comments on five hydroelectric facilities on the Connecticut River seeking renewal of their operating licenses. The [...]

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Greenfield, MA, March 6, 2013. – The Vermont Public Service Board admitted the Connecticut River Watershed Council’s (CRWC) four expert reports as part of the on-going Certificate of Public Good relicensing hearings for the Entergy Vermont Yankee nuclear facility. These reports – developed by experts with decades of experience in biology, thermal [...]

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE – March 6, 2013 CONTACT:                                                                         Andrew Fisk, Executive Director, afisk@ctriver.org, 413-772-2020 ext.208 Jacqueline Talbot, Cleanup Coordinator, jtalbot@ctriver.org, 860-704-0057 Putney, VT – The Vermont House of Representatives and Senate recently passed a “concurrent resolution commending watershed organizations for their role in river and lake cleanup activities in Vermont.” Specifically mentioned [...]

Vermont, March 01, 2013.  Once you take the time to wonder what creatures are doing, you wonder why they are doing it.  While refilling the hummingbird feeder that hung on an apple tree in the backyard, the unusual number of ants clearly following a path as they walked up and down the tree trunk was [...]

Pomfret, Vermont, February 8, 2013.  On this Valentine’s Day residents of New Hampshire, Vermont and beyond can make gift donations in the name of loved ones to any of five river restoration projects in the Connecticut River watershed.  The projects are on the website CleanWaterFuture.org – which links people, businesses and organizations to conservation projects [...]

Paul S. Ducheney Superintendent – Electric Production Holyoke Gas & Electric 99 Suffolk Street, Holyoke, MA 01040 February 7, 2013 Paul, I have reviewed the Application for Authoriziation of Non-Project Use on behalf of the Connecticut River Watershed Council.  The Holyoke Canal system seems well-suited as a demonstration area for the testing of innovative small [...]

Vermont, February 01, 2013. Many areas in this country have icon species that add to their sense of place. The Texas Gulf Coast is busy working to restore the iconic Kemp’s ridley sea turtle and we, for all the hemming and hawing over the salmon restoration program, have the American shad (Alosa sapidissima ) again [...]

January 29, 2013 Secretary Richard K. Sullivan, Jr. EOEEA, Attn: MEPA Office Richard Bourre 100 Cambridge Street, Suite 900 Boston, MA  02114 Subject: Request for Advisory Opinion Barnhardt Dam Repair – Colrain, Massachusetts Dear Secretary Sullivan, I am submitting comments on the Request for MEPA Advisory Opinion on dam repairs at the Barnhardt Manufacturing Company dam [...]

January 28, 2013 Jason M. Coite University of Connecticut – Office of Environmental Policy 31 LeDoyt Road, U-3055 Storrs, Connecticut 06269 Regarding: UCONN EIE for Potential Sources of Water Supply Dear Mr. Coite, I am submitting comments on the EIE for additional sources of water supply on behalf of the Connecticut River Watershed Council. The [...]

January 16, 2013 Paul Ducheney Superintendent – Hydro Holyoke Gas and Electric Department 99 Suffolk Street Holyoke, MA 01040-5082 Re: Monitoring Report:  Upstream Fish Passage at HG&E’s Holyoke Dam Fishway, Spring and Fall, 2012 Dear Paul, I have reviewed the agency review draft of Monitoring Report:Upstream Fish Passage at HG&E’s Holyoke Dam Fishway, Spring and Fall [...]

Vermont, January 01, 2013. Most North Country residents in the Connecticut River valley know that up until 1791 Vermont was an independent republic after breaking away from New York and New Hampshire. Many know of the VT and NH towns in the Upper Valley attempt to create a separate state of New Connecticut. In addition, [...]

Vermont, December 2012.  In the Connecticut River watershed, if you drive on a roadway you have seen a crow eating carrion. What you are seeing is the modern American crow, scientific name Corvus brachyrhynchos, the “short-billed crow” descended from 20 million year old ancestors. The American crow is one of four species of crow in [...]

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Greenfield, MA November 15, 2012 – The Connecticut River Watershed Council (CRWC) is pleased to announce that an agreement has been reached that will restore the Chickley River to more natural and ecologically sound conditions. After Tropical Storm Irene caused massive flooding last fall, five miles of the Chickley River in Hawley, [...]

Vermont, November 1, 2012. Most waterbodies marking a boundary between two states or countries have an imaginary dotted line running down their middle. The Connecticut River does not because as everyone ‘knows’ the river belongs to New Hampshire. However, as with all things human, the real circumstances are more complicated.  The reality about river ownership [...]

For Immediate Release Saxton’s River, VT, October 12, 2012 – In a refreshingly frank letter sent October 4, 2012 to the members of the 4-state Connecticut River Atlantic Salmon Commission, Entergy actually admits they have been using a flawed thermal model to justify their thermal discharge to the Connecticut River.  Entergy in its attempt to deflect [...]

Junk Cars, Furniture, Parking Meters, & Loads of Trash Removed from Rivers: Local Rivers & Streams Are Cleaner Thanks to Source to Sea Volunteers Greenfield, MA October 3, 2012 – On Saturday September 29, over two thousand registered volunteers grabbed trash bags and work gloves to pitch in on the Source to Sea Cleanup, organized [...]