http://www.ctriver.org/newsroom/press_release_and_news_articles News and notes about the Connecticut River Watershed Fri, 10 Sep 2010 14:53:08 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en September 10, 2010, Greenfield, MA. Come celebrate our Connecticut River with the finest musicians and songwriters in the Connecticut River Valley at this benefit for the Connecticut River Watershed Council. Local musicians Pat and Tex LaMountain will back up an amazing array of talent they have assembled, including John ... http://www.ctriver.org/newsroom/press_release_and_news_articles/?p=94 Greenfield, MA. September 1, 2010. The t-shirts are printed; the work gloves and trash bags are lined up, ready for distribution. Now all the Connecticut River Watershed Council needs are a few thousand volunteers for the October 2, 2010 Source to Sea Cleanup. This year, NRG Energy ... http://www.ctriver.org/newsroom/press_release_and_news_articles/?p=91 The Connecticut River is a working river. It provides transportation, power, irrigation and recreation. The upper river started providing direct hydro power to the earliest settlements for their mills. The river floated the first log drives starting in the early 1700s to bring lumber to southern New England, drives that ... http://www.ctriver.org/newsroom/press_release_and_news_articles/?p=89 Other than air nothing is more important to life than water. We delight in water as it skips across the riffles in a river. In flood, you feel the ancient fear as water sweep all before it. Beyond our delight in a summer afternoon at a lake or ... http://www.ctriver.org/newsroom/press_release_and_news_articles/?p=88 Greenfield, MA July 13, 2010. It’s illegal. It’s environmentally damaging, and it creates a hazard for children and other river-users. Now, the Connecticut River Watershed Council (CRWC) is asking for your help in identifying trash illegally dumped along the banks and bends of local streams. “Many of our ... http://www.ctriver.org/newsroom/press_release_and_news_articles/?p=93 Today the Connecticut River offers awe inspiring views, events, places and wildlife. But there is one marker of the nature of our watershed long gone from our landscape, the “mast” pines found here when European settlers first arrived in our valley. Sometimes a book will conjure up for us the ... http://www.ctriver.org/newsroom/press_release_and_news_articles/?p=87 As the waters of the Connecticut River beckon us to begin the 2010 boating season, the Connecticut River Watershed Council is asking all boaters to help protect the Connecticut River from invasions of exotic plants and animals. Whether you are a power boat, rowing, canoe, kayak or sail enthusiast ... http://www.ctriver.org/newsroom/press_release_and_news_articles/?p=86 Vermont. May 03, 2010 Being an incurable over the side of bridges watcher for 40 years can lead to some entertaining events that unfold while peering into the water. This bridge was a small wood and steel bridge 15 feet above the water that I had looked over the side ... http://www.ctriver.org/newsroom/press_release_and_news_articles/?p=85 Numerous travel guides praise the Connecticut River but the acclaim can be a double-edged sword. On one hand the Connecticut River has advocates at local, state, regional and federal levels mindful of resource protection and sustainable development in order to protect this treasure. All of this work has resulted in ... http://www.ctriver.org/newsroom/press_release_and_news_articles/?p=84 Vermont. March 29, 2010 . When you first see the picture you would think the editor had made a mistake and placed the picture on its side. On reading the caption though the striped bass in the picture is in fact "standing on its tail" with its nose facing straight up ... http://www.ctriver.org/newsroom/press_release_and_news_articles/?p=83 Greenfield, MA. March 23, 2010. One option said to be available to engineers at the Vermont Yankee nuclear plant for dealing with the tritium contamination is to extract the hundreds of thousands of gallons of tritium-contaminated groundwater at the site, filter out the organic matter, and then flush the ... http://www.ctriver.org/newsroom/press_release_and_news_articles/?p=82 Greenfield, MA. March 10, 2010. Today, Attorney Jon Groveman of the Vermont Natural Resources Council submitted briefs supporting the Connecticut River Watershed Council’s request for intervener status in the Vermont Public Service Board’s Vermont Yankee nuclear plant relicensing proceedings. In February, the Council publicly called for Entergy’s Vermont Yankee nuclear plant ... http://www.ctriver.org/newsroom/press_release_and_news_articles/?p=81 Dear CRWC Member: Tomorrow the Vermont Senate will take up an historic vote on whether to extend the operating license of Entergy’s Vermont Yankee nuclear plant beyond 2012, the expiration of its original 40-year license. There’s no better time than right now to remind your Legislator about CRWC’s issues ... http://www.ctriver.org/newsroom/press_release_and_news_articles/?p=79 Greenfield, MA. February 23, 2010. The Connecticut River Watershed Council (CRWC) received word in late January that MA Department of Environmental Protection’s Commissioner Laurie Burt has remanded the water withdrawal permit issued to Russell Biomass, LLC for a proposed biomass facility on the Westfield River. The decision requires DEP’s Western ... http://www.ctriver.org/newsroom/press_release_and_news_articles/?p=80 February 10, 2010. Greenfield, MA. The Connecticut River Watershed Council today joined in the call for the shut down of the Vermont Yankee nuclear plant while the source of a spreading plume of radioactive tritium leaching into groundwater and the Connecticut River remains undiscovered. CRWC’s announcement comes in ... http://www.ctriver.org/newsroom/press_release_and_news_articles/?p=77