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Vermont DEC presents draft Otter Creek tactical basin plan; public comment open through Oct. 24
Summary
Angie Allen of the Vermont Department of Environmental Conservation outlined the draft Otter Creek tactical basin plan to the Addison County Regional Planning Commission, describing watershed conditions, $76 million in basin investments since 2016, 47 implementation strategies and Phase 3 content of the Lake Champlain phosphorus TMDL (under EPA review). Public comments are due Oct. 24.
Angie Allen, a watershed planner with the Vermont Department of Environmental Conservation's Water Investment Division, presented the draft Otter Creek tactical basin plan to the Addison County Regional Planning Commission on Oct. 9 and invited written public comment through Oct. 24.
Allen described tactical basin plans as five‑year, collaborative guidebooks used by the Agency of Natural Resources to protect, maintain, enhance and restore surface waters. She said Basin 3 (the Otter Creek watershed) covers about 1,100 square miles across 46 towns and roughly 27 HUC‑12 subwatersheds. "You can think of them as like large scale watershed management plans," she said.
The draft includes state fiscal‑year investment data from 2016–2023. "In some, we've invested over 76,000,000 into clean water projects in this basin," Allen said, noting the majority of that funding went to developed lands (roads and agriculture) and that federal funds are included in the tally. She said the…
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