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News and events around the Lake Champlain Valley of northern New York and Vermont and southern Quebec

Proposed Establishment of the Champlain Valley of New York Viticultural Area

Champlain Valley of New York Viticultural Area

TTB is accepting comments through August 31, 2015 on a proposed American Viticultural Area (“AVA”) called “Champlain Valley of New York.”

The proposed AVA of Champlain Valley of New York is a long, narrow valley on Lake Champlain’s western shore – approximately 82 miles long and about 20 miles wide at the widest point; it incorporates about 500 square miles, six bonded wineries, and eleven commercial vineyards and covers a total of 15.47 acres. The area features a very short growing season and is conducive to growing cold-hardy North American grapes.

The name “Champlain Valley of New York” comes from Lake Champlain, which is found on the border of upstate New York as well as Vermont and parts of Quebec.

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Vermonters voice concerns about cleaning up Lake Champlain

Vermonters voice concerns about cleaning up Lake Champlain

Vermonters voice concerns about cleaning up Lake Champlain

Many Vermonters say the water quality in Lake Champlain is no good and they’re demanding change. As groups work to clean up the state’s largest body of water they are voicing concerns about cleaning up Lake Champlain want to know where to begin.

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Lake Champlain water systems tested for cyanotoxins

Lake Champlain water tested for cyanotoxins

Lake Champlain drinking water systems begin testing for toxins related to blue-green algae

Lake Champlain water systems tested for cyanotoxins

Drinking water at 22 purification plants in Vermont along Lake Champlain began testing for the toxins occasionally released by cyanobacteria, or “blue-green algae,” according to a news release on Tuesday from the Department of Health.

Lake Champlain is the source of drinking water for about 150,000 Vermonters.

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Floating Classrooms Give Students STEM lessons on the waters of Lake Champlain

Floating Classrooms Give Students STEM lessons on the waters of Lake Champlain

Lake Champlain Community Sailing Center’s new program, Floating Classrooms, gives students a chance to gain STEM knowledge as they learn to sail too.

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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.

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Will Lower Property Values Be the Trend Along Lake Champlain?

 

Lower Property Values Along Lake Champlain

Will Lower Property Values Be the Trend Along Lake Champlain?

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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Lower Property Values Along Lake Champlain?

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

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