Thank you for your interest in our watershed, the Passumpsic River Basin!  A basin, also called a watershed, is an area of land drained by a river and its tributaries.  The Passumpsic River Basin (also called "Basin 17" by the State of Vermont) covers the area shown by the map below.

The Passumpsic River watershed includes the East Branch of the Passumpsic River that starts in the town of Brighton and joins the West Branch just northeast of Lyndonville.  The Passumpsic River then joins Millers Run which drains the towns of Sheffield and Wheelock and flows over 20 miles to the south until it reaches the Connecticut River.  The basin includes the Moose River watershed with headwaters in East Haven, the Victory Bog wetlands complex, the Sleepers River and Joes Brook.  Center Pond, Newark Pond, Joes Pond, and Stiles Pond are also part of the Passumpsic River watershed.

A Tactical Basin Plan is a strategic guidebook, produced by the Vermont Agency of Natural Resources, to help us protect, maintain, enhance, and restore the streams, rivers, ponds, and lakes in each basin.  There is a state employee called a Basin Planner assigned to each basin.  The Basin Planner and interested groups and community members update their basin plan every five years.  The Basin Plan includes monitoring results, analysis of those results, lists of strategies to protect and restore clean water, and a system for tracking progress and putting those strategies into action.  The strategies identified in the Basin Plan also help set priorities for funding. 

This year, the Passumpsic River Basin Plan is up for renewal!  As part of this process, we want to hear from you!  Please fill out the survey below to help us identify community priorities and concerns related to your watershed.  

You can find out more about the Passumpsic River watershed planning process and the current status of our rivers and lakes here.