December 21, 2009

River Cleanup 2009: 2,132 volunteers, tons of trash, and a set of dentures

Filed under: Advocacy, Clean Rivers, Outreach, Press Release, Source to Sea Cleanup — Tags: — ctriver @ 12:00 pm

GREENFIELD, MA. DECEMBER 21, 2009. It was Saturday morning, October 3rd, Source to Sea Cleanup Day at the Connecticut River Watershed Council. Things weren’t looking good. “We had thousands of people signed up and ready to go,” says Chelsea Gwyther, CRWC’s Executive Director. But, for the first time in over [...]

December 18, 2009

Vermont Supreme Court issues Connecticut River Decision

SAXTONS RIVER, VERMONT. DECEMBER 18, 2009. According the Connecticut River Watershed Council (CRWC), the Vermont Supreme Court upheld a 2008 Environmental Court decision allowing the Entergy Vermont Yankee (ENVY) nuclear power plant to increase the temperature of the Connecticut River. CRWC, Deerfield/Millers Trout Unlimited chapter, Citizen Awareness Network, represented by the Environmental and [...]

December 1, 2009

Leeches: Can’t get no respect but should!

Filed under: "River Currents" column, Article, Recreation — Tags: , , — ddeen @ 12:00 pm

Vermont. December 1, 2009
The canoe had been a gift so the color did not matter much to me but for the sake of this story it seems important to know that it was red. On this particular day the color of the canoe and one of the realities of the Connecticut River gave me a [...]