14-03-2018 00:15 via vtdigger.org

Ron Rhodes: Clean water action needed now

Editor’s note: This commentary is by Ron Rhodes, of Pomfret, river steward for the nonprofit Connecticut River Conservancy. 
The Connecticut River and its tributaries have pressing clean water issues, like every other watershed in Vermont, that need to be addressed. The river and the Long Island Sound, which it dumps into, are impaired for nitrogen and are subject to a U.S. EPA cleanup plan (known as a TMDL).
Thankfully the Vermont Agency of Natural Resources has spent time and money
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