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Scientists Say Lake Pollution Reduction Will Take Decades
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Scientists say they’re seeing small signs of progress in cleaning up Lake Champlain. That’s the good news. The bad news is that it will likely take decades to meet pollution reduction targets. And there probably won’t be a big infusion of federal dollars to help Vermont achieve those goals.VPR News
Lake Champlain Freezing Less Than Years Past
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Lake Champlain is freezing over less frequently and less extensively than it did decades ago.VPR News
Lusk’s Poetry Explores Lake Champlain’s History
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A new collection by Daniel Lusk, Lake Studies: Meditations on Lake Champlain, finds inspiration in the shipwrecks and fossils beneath the surface of Lake Champlain.VPR News
Lake Champlain Science Group To Get Study Money
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A science program at the University of Vermont is going to use a $20 million grant, the largest in the school’s history, to help study the health of the Lake Champlain basin.VPR News
Feds Lift Southern Lake Champlain Water Use Advisory
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The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service says a warning has been lifted against using the water of southern Lake Champlain. That follows the application of chemicals to kill sea lamprey in two Vermont rivers.VPR News
Small Amount Of Oil Found In Sunken Champlain Tug
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Officials once feared that a long-sunken tugboat at the bottom of a Lake Champlain could be a looming environmental disaster.VPR News
Divers Search For Sunken Tug In Lake Champlain
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Divers are braving the dark depths of Lake Champlain to see if there’s still fuel on a tugboat that sank in 1963.VPR News
Program Encourages Homeowners To Clean-Up Stormwater
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This is the time of year when toxic blue-green algae problems begin to crop up in Lake Champlain. Now, a new program has been launched to reduce the phosphorous that feeds the algae when it washes into the lake in stormwater runoff.VPR News