The Vermont Agency of Natural Resources (VTANR) will be hosting a Certified Floodplain Manager (CFM) exam on 6/23/2017.  The exam will be held from 1-4pm in Montpelier, VT at the VTANR main office at 1 National Life Drive.   If you or someone you know may be interested in sitting for the exam, please have them contact me (rebecca.pfeiffer@vermont.gov) with any questions.  Please feel free to share this announcement with any person or other groups that I may have missed.

Why We Continue to Develop Floodplains: Examining the Disincentives for Conservation in Federal Policy

The High Meadows Fund has issued a Request for Proposals (RFP) that represents a commitment of $180,000 towards promoting planning and action to build resilience within Vermont’s watersheds.

Watersheds United Vermont is pleased to release the 2016 version of Living in Harmony with Streams: A Citizen's Handbook to How Streams Work.

Here's a  short animation from France that beautifully captures the Vermont Rivers Program mission to make human and natural communities safe and healthful through the protection of natural flows, floodplains and meandering rivers.

This type of river management is practiced in Vermont.

A short animation film on river management (GEMAPI) by the Rhone Mediterranean Corsica water Agency. 3.5 minutes

Waterbury Village along the Winooski River now has an innovative on-line tool to visualize the extent of flooding.  The Waterbury information is part of the Flood Inundation Mapper.

Two-Rivers Ottauquechee Regional Commission (TRORC) has released a dynamic map showing work around Vermont to acquire homes and other buildings in the high risk Special Flood Hazard Area to reduce damage from flooding or respond to substantial damage.

This map, composed by Pete Fellows, TRORC GIS Manager and Planner, uses fusion tables to provide updated information on the status of this effort.

Since 2011 most communities across Vermont have taken important steps to become more flood resilient.  Over a quarter of Vermont communities have protected river corridors or floodplains from further losses.  Over half have Local Hazard Mitigation Plans adopted or in process (up from 35% in 2014), and 80% have Emergency Operations Plans in place (up from 36% in 2014).

VPR.NET 

Flood-inundation maps for Lake Champlain
in Vermont and in northern Clinton County, New York

Scientific Investigations Report 2016-5060, Prepared in cooperation with the International Joint Commission

By: Robert H. Flynn and Laura Hayes, DOI: 10.3133/sir20165060