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The Champlain basin collects waters from the northwestern slopes of the Green Mountains and the eastern portion of the Adirondack Mountains, reaching as far south as the 32 mi-long (51 km) Lake George in New York. Lake Champlain drains nearly half of Vermont, and approximately 250,000 people get their drinking water from the lake. [9]
The Champlain Canal is a 60-mile (97 km) canal in New York that connects the Hudson River to the south end of Lake Champlain. It was simultaneously constructed with the Erie Canal for use by commercial vessels, fully opening in 1823.
The Champlain Valley is a region of the United States around Lake Champlain in Vermont and New York extending north slightly into Quebec, Canada. It is part of the St. Lawrence River drainage basin, drained northward by the Richelieu River into the St. Lawrence at Sorel-Tracy, Quebec (northeast of Montreal). The Richelieu valley is not ...
The bill would establish the Lake Champlain Basin Program to "formally administer the program to promote climate resilience and mitigation through ecosystem restoration," according to a press release.
The Champlain-Adirondack Biosphere Network is managed by co-chairs Jim Brangan, Cultural Heritage and Recreation Coordinator for the Lake Champlain Basin Program (LCBP) and assistant director of the Champlain Valley National Heritage Partnership (CVNHP), Professor Kelly Cerialo from Paul Smith's College, and a steering committee composed of ...
Lake Champlain Sea Grant, University of Vermont and the Lake Champlain Basin Program presented information about the lake's health, discussing stormwater runoff, microplastics and bacteria and how ...
The Lake Champlain Basin Program (LCBP) is a program to restore and protect Lake Champlain and its surrounding watershed or drainage basin for future generations. The LCBP works in partnership with government agencies from New York, Vermont, and Quebec, private organizations, local communities, and individuals to coordinate and fund efforts which benefit the Lake Champlain Basin's water ...
The Richelieu River has a drainage basin of 23,720 square kilometres (9,160 sq mi) – including those of Lake Champlain 19,925 km 2 (7,693 sq mi) [2] and Missisquoi Bay (1,289 km 2 (498 sq mi)). Of this, 19,600 km 2 (7,600 sq mi) [ 2 ] are in the United States, originating in the western slopes of the Green Mountains and the eastern slopes of ...