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 [...]

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 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 [...]

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 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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

Vermont.  October 1, 2012.  Sometimes others perception of one’s occupation belie your spirit. One would not expect your stereotypical accountant to be the adventurous type. However, here in the Connecticut River valley, one adventurous accountant belies the stereotype. In one of her many scuba diving excursions into the Connecticut River she came up with pictures [...]

Last year on August 28th, Irene blew through Vermont and wreaked havoc in the Connecticut River and Lake Champlain watersheds. The amounts of rain varied but many locations had extended downpours that dropped over 7 inches of rain. Rivers responded to that level of precipitation by increased flow and power that destroyed property and infrastructure [...]

August 23, 2012 Secretary Richard K. Sullivan, Jr. EOEEA, Attn: MEPA Office Holly Johnson, EOEA No. 14089 100 Cambridge Street, Suite 900 Boston, MA  02114 Subject:    Draft Environmental Impact Report for EOEA# 14594 Proposed (redundant) Well 9A – Westfield, Massachusetts Dear Secretary Sullivan, I am submitting comments on the Draft Environmental Impact Report (DEIR) for [...]

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE CONTACT: www.ctriver.org Jacqueline Talbot, Cleanup Coordinator and CT River Steward, jtalbot@ctriver.org 860-704-0057 Angela Mrozinski, CRWC Outreach Coordinator, amrozinski@ctriver.org 413-772-2020 ext 204   Greenfield, MA August 14, 2012 – Low river levels due to a hot, dry summer have revealed large amounts of trash and debris in and along rivers. Have you walked [...]

Connecticut River Watershed Council, 15 Bank Row, Greenfield, MA 01301, 413-772-2020 For more information contact:  Tex LaMountain 413-834-2606 (c) or Pat LaMountain  413-772-2020 X 203 Tu and Th August 13, 2012   F O R   I M M E D I A T E    R E L E A S E Greenfield, MA.  August 13, 2012.  [...]

Vermont.  August 2012.  Refraction, ionization, evaporation, condensation, convection, static electricity and the rotation of the earth are some of the natural processes that create many wondrous events visible in our sky.  It is hard to think about all those things when it is raining cats and dogs and there is lightening crashing around you.  There [...]

CONTACT: Pat or Tex LaMountain, plamountain@ctriver.org ; pattex@crocker.com 413-772-2020 X203 T and Th; 413-834-2606 any day FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Greenfield, MA. July 25, 2012 – The Connecticut River Watershed Council, a conservation group based in Greenfield, MA is moving forward with plans for its Goodnight Irene songwriter concert to be held at Deerfield Academy’s large auditorium [...]

Putney, Vermont.  July 1, 2012.  We place a genuine and personal value on clean water, but that does not compute easily to a dollar value. Yet in the wider world, economic values drive decisions about our waters more so than do personal feelings. In our recent history, our operating theory about waste was “the solution [...]