Day Fades Into Night Over Lake Champlain and Rouses Point
This is a little different variation of the typical Lake Champlain sunset photo.
Here day fades into night over Lake Champlain and Rouses Point, New York.
First permanently settled after Samuel de Champlain”s voyages through the region and officially chartered in 1788, Clinton County, New York is home to the city of Plattsburgh, the towns of Altona, Au Sable, Beekmantown, Black Brook, Champlain, Chazy, Clinton, Dannemora, Ellenburg, Mooers, Peru, Plattsburgh, Saranac, and Schuyler Falls, and the villages of Champlain, Dannemora, Keeseville, and Rouses Point. Order ‘Clinton County’ Here
About Rouses Point, New York:
Rouses Point is located along the western shore of Lake Champlain and the northeastern most village in New York State and is a natural gateway to Vermont, Canada, and all of New York State.
Whether simply relaxing in an Adirondack chair, fishing, boating, hiking, golfing or cycling Rouses Point offers memorable activities for everyone.
Students from local schools are learning the ropes through a new science, math, engineering and technology program on Lake Champlain.
The Lake Champlain Community Sailing Center has offered on-craft courses since 2008, and recently created a new program, Floating Classrooms, that gives more than 900 students a year an opportunity to apply their science and math knowledge as they sail across the lake.
The hands-on learning approach at the center is part of a new state and national push for STEM programs designed to improve student aptitude in science, technology, engineering and math.
Much of the recent debate about Lake Champlain has focused on the cost of cleaning it up. The Franklin County town of Georgia has turned that around to consider: What’s the effect of a polluted lake on the value of property alongside it?
The town recently lowered assessments for 37 lakefront properties on Ferrand Road by $50,000 each, based on the seasonal blue-green algae that permeates the water in front of them
Researchers are studying doxycycline. Their research is showing that chlorine used to treat wastewater is actually changing the makeup of the doxycycline and forming new antibiotics,
Wastewater treatment is designed to break down biological substances, but not antibiotics. Surprisingly enough, though, we are finding in the lab that not only is chlorine not breaking down antibiotics, but it is actually creating even stronger antibiotics than the original doxycycline.
Scientists were already aware of the link between antibiotics and wastewater. For years scientists have been aware of the potential problems of antibiotics being present in wastewater…
Vermont Plans on Flood Resilience rejected by FEMA
In a June 4 letter from FEMA to the state, FEMA claims that Vermont doesn’t enforce the higher standards in uniformly enough to warrant FEMA’s funding beyond replacement costs of previously existing structures.
Paul Ford, FEMA’s acting regional director in Boston, wrote that Vermont’s general permit for stream alterations “does not set forth engineering design standards or measurable performance criteria of sufficient specificity for replacement bridges and culverts necessary to demonstrate uniform application across the entire state.”
Consequently, municipalities must face the possibility of having to cover the cost of meeting state requirements for better bridges and culverts, without full FEMA funding to get the work done.
Different Standards
FEMA requires consistent state standards so it can insure that one project’s funding is not superior to another’s merely because it’s getting federal funding.
Vermont officials, on the other hand, maintain that the standards for getting a state stream alteration permit must vary somewhat for local conditions.
If one bridge in Northfield were built to statewide standards, “one of the abutments would have to be out in the middle of Route 12A. It’s not one size fits all,” according to Ben Rose, recovery and mitigation chief with Vermont’s Division of Emergency Management and Homeland Security.
Vermont Plans on Flood Resilience Increased After Multiple Storms
Sue Minter, the Vermont Agency of Transportation Secretary, said Vermont’s determination to build bigger and better increased after some culverts in central Vermont were washed out in heavy rains in May 2011, replaced and then washed away again when Irene hit three months later.
From then on, “We were building back to a stronger standard — stronger than Irene found us,” Minter said. The Federal Highway Administration was fully on board, but FEMA balked, she said. “So one arm of the federal government was supporting our initiative to be more resilient and another was not,” she said.
Although FEMA has come through with additional funding for many of its projects under the “hazard mitigation” program, state officials claim it’s discretionary and doesn’t do enough to encourage stronger, more flood-resilient construction when structures need to be rebuilt.
