Deen: The Connecticut River’s great watershed
The main river travels some 375 to 410 miles to the sound depending on the source of your information, but a healthy river never goes from here to there in a straight line.
Deen: Where did it all come from?
For all the importance of water to all species, we do not know where it came from nor how there came to be so much of it, to the point where oceans covers 70 percent of Earth’s surface.
Deen: Vermont Yankee pollution puts fish in hot water
Editor’s note: David Deen is Upper Valley river steward for the Connecticut River Watershed Council. The recent Vermont Yankee court decision said the State of Vermont can’t trump the federal government when it comes to issues of nuclear safety. But the same ruling affirmed Vermont’s continuing authority for oversight of other Yankee issues, like enforcement [...]
Meyer: It’s about the river AND the fish …
It is time for an ecosystem restoration. Turn this upside-down species pyramid back on its base — rededicate funds to bedrock species of this ecosystem.
Deen: It’s the river not the fish
Beyond the number of fish, there is the community engagement the Restoration Program has nurtured all along the river. Each spring hundreds of volunteers up and down the watershed show up and distribute salmon fry in selected tributaries to the river.
Katz: A big deal
Entergy says it’s no big deal; but what’s so great about having tritium leaking into the ground water? What’s so great about finding tritium in the Connecticut River or a fish with strontium in it? What’s so great about Vermont Yankee dumping hot water into the Connecticut River undermining the shad population?
Tritium in CT River: Not a “SMALL AMOUNT”
Depending on the volume of discharge, river flow rate, and other factors, this sample could have been diluted several orders of magnitude, so concentrations at the point of discharge could well be in the hundreds of thousands of picocuries per liter.
Connecticut River group hopes to draw 1,500 volunteers on Oct. 1 for cleanup
Saxtons River, VT and Hanover, NH September 22nd, 2011 – More than 1,500 volunteers in four states will fan out on Saturday October 1st to clean up trash and flood-strewn debris along the Connecticut River and its tributaries.
Watershed council issues “SOS” for Connecticut River clean up post-Irene
“We want to mobilize as many volunteers and groups as possible to make our rivers safe for people and wildlife again,” Talbot said. “It’s not just about litter this year. The long-term health of our rivers is at stake.”
Deen: The Big Conn, monster or myth?
One of the earliest reports comes from the History of Lordship in 1878 when an assistant engineer on the steamer State of New York said that he witnessed the head of a monster raised several feet above the waves. The head disappeared and a portion of the body formed an arc “under which it would have been easy to drive a team of oxen.”
