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DEC advises municipalities to use river manager engineer and model bylaw language for emergency stream work

Chittenden County Regional Planning Commission Planning Advisory Committee (PAC) · April 1, 2026
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Summary

At the PAC meeting, Kyle Medash (DEC) told staff and members the first contact for municipal river work is the river manager engineer and that municipalities should follow stream alteration standards to avoid permitting issues; Richmond’s emergency selectboard measure was discussed as a local example.

At the Aug. 14 Planning Advisory Committee meeting, Dan Albrecht introduced Kyle Medash of the Vermont Department of Environmental Conservation, who urged municipal staff to coordinate with the river manager engineer when undertaking work in rivers and to adhere to the state stream alteration standards to ease permit processing.

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