A Missisquoi River Basin Blog

One thing Pearl has learned over the course of her time in conservation work is that some projects take time. In October of 2025, the Missisquoi River Basin Association successfully completed the removal of the man-made Sleeper Pond Dam in Newport Center after nearly ten years of work. This is a huge accomplishment for the MRBA and greater watershed community! In this blog post, Pearl is going to take you through the timeline of this project, why defunct dams should be remove

Pearl is back for yet another year of water sampling! This season, Pearl is sampling 17 sites across Enosburg, Richford, Westfield, North Troy, and Newport Center. She is collecting samples to test for nitrogen, phosphorus, and chloride levels in the river. This water sampling is a part of the LaRosa Partnership Program and is run out of the Vermont Department of Environmental Conservation (DEC). This program collects valuable data that may aid in the determination of specifi

The Missisquoi River Basin Association is happy to be back for a fourth year in a row participating in the Stream Wise program! Stream Wise is a program offered through the Lake Champlain Basin Program (LCBP) and New England Interstate Water Pollution Control Commission (NEIWPCC) that engages streamside property owners in the Lake Champlain basin to enhance and protect vegetated stream buffers, increasing flood resiliency and benefiting water quality and natural habitat. If y