Program Overview
What is the Monitoring and Assessment Program?
surface water management
Concentrated Animal Feeding Operation Program
Program Updates
In March 2022, a joint petition from the Conservation Law Foundation, the Vermont Natural Resources Council, and the Lake Champlain Committee requested the EPA Region 1 office take corrective actions or withdraw its authorization of Vermont’s NPDES Program, which is administered by the Vermont Agency of Natural Resources (ANR).
Green Infrastructure
Green Infrastructure describes a set of practices and design principles that uses natural processes to manage the effects of urbanization on water.
Streamflow Protection
Protection of instream flow is a critical aspect of managing our waters in a sustainable manner. While the benefits of flow regulation – hydroelectric power, flood control, water for numerous purposes – are obvious, the impacts often are not. In Vermont, we have focused much attention on maintaining adequate minimum flows to protect aquatic habitat and stream ecology, but other aspects of flow protection are equally important.
Monitoring and Assessment
The Monitoring and Assessment Program (MAP):