If you are attending our annual dinner, please complete this form. It gives us a sense of head count so we can plan accordingly. Partners and children are welcome! We look forward to seeing you there!

The suggested donation is $20 per person. We ask that, if you are able, you please make that donation through our website here. We will accept donations on the night but will not have cash or change available. Thank you!

Please make the suggested donation on our website here. 

A reminder of the event details: 

Date and Time: November 12, 2025 from 5-7 PM

Location:  North Branch Nature Center (713 Elm Street, Montpelier, Vermont 05602)

Speaker: David Mears

Suggested Donation: $20

Working Agenda

5:00 PM: Hors d'Oeuvres and Socializing

5:30 PM: Dinner 

6:15 PM: WNRCD Annual Update and Recap

6:30 PM: David Mears

6:50 PM: Awards 

7:00 PM: Door prizes 

One of the many hats that Winooski NRCD wears is that of tactical basin planning partner with the State of Vermont. For the sake of planning and monitoring, the State is divided up into watershed units known as "tactical basins". The Winooski NRCD is intimately involved with planning and monitoring in the Northern Lake Champlain Basin (Basin 5), the Lamoille Basin (Basin 7), and the Winooski Basin (Basin 8). One of the major roles of the basin planning process is to make progress toward achieving the "total maximum daily load" (TMDL) of Phosphorus inputs into Lake Champlain. While Phosphorus is a critical element for the growth of both aquatic and terrestrial plant life, excess Phosphorus in aquatic ecosystems can cause undesirable side effects like algal blooms. 

For decades, Lake Champlain and its contributing watersheds have had an excess of Phosphorus and the State is working to correct that. One of the methods the State is using is the Clean Water Fund, which provides grants and loans for municipalities and non-profits to complete projects that will improve the quality of water entering streams, rivers, and lakes in the Lake Champlain watershed. The current list of eligible projects includes the planting of riparian buffers, restoration of lake shorelines, strategic wood addition to streams, floodplain restoration, gully stabilization, improvements to old logging roads, and improvements to private roads, among others. 

Part of our role as tactical basin planning partners with the State is outreach and education. As a result, we are seeking landowners and residents who are interested in learning about practices they could implement on their property. Are you interested in contributing to the efforts to meet the Lake Champlain TMDL? Want to know what clean water practices you might be able to implement on your property and what the Phosphorus reduction potential would be for those practices? Great! Please reach out to us by completing this form and we will perform an assessment to determine what practices might work on your property and what impact they might have!

If you have any questions, please email daniel@winooskinrcd.org or lucas@winooskinrcd.org.