The Otter Creek Natural Resources Conservation District (NRCD) in Middlebury, received a $6,428 grant from the Lake Champlain Basin Program to compost nuisance aquatic water chestnut plants harvested from Lake Champlain. The project is a cooperative venture between the Otter Creek NRCD, the USDA Natural Resources Conservation District's Middlebury office, the Vermont Department of Environmental Conservation (DEC) and Champlain Valley Compost Company.
Water Chestnut Trupa natans L. is an invasive, nonnative annual plant which has been growing in Lake Champlain for at least 50 years. Water chestnut …
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