Please join us on May 24 at Hinesburg Town Hall @ 7 PM for our next educational event!
After learning about our poor water quality conditions under current regulations on March 31, this May 24 event will focus on the new water quality rules being developed right now. This is an invitation and a request for watershed-wide community involvement. Why is this important? Because an ounce of prevention truly is worth a pound of cure (this refers to the “without going broke” part of our title).
On Tuesday, May 24, at 7:00 PM, Rebekah Weber of the Conservation Law Foundation will join us at the Hinesburg Town Hall to share information about the new rules and regs being discussed and prepared right now as a result of Act 64, Vermont’s new clean water initiative. We very much need your help with advocating for strategic and meaningful regulatory improvements.
On May 24, we will focus on three rule-making areas: Stormwater, Agriculture and Funding. Diane Snelling and Marty Illick will provide introductory remarks. Snelling and Illick have championed clean water and shore land protection measures for the last 20 plus years. Snelling has served as an integral member of the Senate Natural Resources Committee and the Natural Resource Board, while Illick, also a Natural Resource Board member, directs a network of local non profits including Lewis Creek Association, LaPlatte Watershed Partnership and the South Chittenden River Watch group.
Conservation Law Foundation and Rebekah, a recent Vermont Law School graduate, have been judiciously following Vermont’s clean water act, and now its new rule-making process. Rebekah will explain the new rules in development today, and explain how CLF and its growing partnership network have been involved to help make the very best rules possible for all Vermonters and for Lake Champlain. We will then open the floor for questions and answers. We hope you will learn more on May 24 to help us advocate for the wisest rules that can lead to healthy water ways in Vermont – sooner than later.
On May 24 LCA will also provide an update on the status of the three action items resulting from the Water Matters, Part 1 panel discussion:
* Continue with in-stream monitoring to inform pollution prevention work.
* Prepare a rural-based LID Guide specifically for our watershed geography and water quality conditions.
* Facilitate an intertown stormwater master plan process organized by watershed, linked to our lake pollution budget and informed by our local EPA-approved data and research results.
If you are a member of a local community organization, land trust, town Conservation Commission, DRB, Zoning Board, Selectboard or Planning Commission; this information can help to guide your local work as well. Because these groups and commissions rely upon informed volunteer members, all interested citizens are urged to attend!
Please join us at the Hinesburg Town Hall on May 24^th at 7 PM. Elegant desserts will be served, and there will be plenty of time for questions and conversation.
For comments and questions, please call Marty at 425 2002 or Jean Kiedaisch at 482 3382
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