{"id":2500,"date":"2025-11-12T22:47:57","date_gmt":"2025-11-13T03:47:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dev.seagrant.w3.uvm.edu\/?page_id=2500"},"modified":"2025-11-12T22:48:47","modified_gmt":"2025-11-13T03:48:47","slug":"blue-btv-impacts","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.uvm.edu\/seagrant\/blue-btv-impacts\/","title":{"rendered":"BLUE BTV Impacts"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"774\" src=\"https:\/\/uvm.edu\/seagrant\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/2025-11-12-1-1024x774.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-2501\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.uvm.edu\/seagrant\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/2025-11-12-1-1024x774.png 1024w, https:\/\/www.uvm.edu\/seagrant\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/2025-11-12-1-300x227.png 300w, https:\/\/www.uvm.edu\/seagrant\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/2025-11-12-1-768x580.png 768w, https:\/\/www.uvm.edu\/seagrant\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/2025-11-12-1.png 1272w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-group\"><div class=\"wp-block-group__inner-container is-layout-constrained wp-block-group-is-layout-constrained\">\n<p><em>Permeable driveway at a home in Burlington, VT<\/em><\/p>\n<\/div><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>BLUE Partners:<\/strong>&nbsp;The BLUE BTV program has been operating in Burlington since 2022 managed&nbsp;by a team from&nbsp;Lake Champlain Sea Grant,&nbsp;the&nbsp;City of Burlington,&nbsp;Fitzgerald Environmental,&nbsp;Just Water Consulting, and the&nbsp;University of Vermont.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>BLUE Impact:<\/strong>&nbsp;BLUE BTV personnel has completed&nbsp;177 residential stormwater assessments on properties across the city since 2022. The program has provided over $23,000 in rebates to 25&nbsp;homeowners, with more projects underway.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>More in-depth information regarding first-year impacts are available in the&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/storymaps.arcgis.com\/stories\/f17f3e4f2661430eb3158a2d6ed2528c\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">BLUE BTV storymap<\/a>,&nbsp;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.uvm.edu\/seagrant\/sites\/default\/files\/files\/publication\/BLUE%20BTV%20Year%201%20Report.pdf\">One Year Report<\/a>,&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.uvm.edu\/seagrant\/sites\/default\/files\/uploads\/BLUE%20BTV%20Year%202%20Report_final.pdf\">Two Year Report<\/a>, and&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.uvm.edu\/seagrant\/sites\/default\/files\/uploads\/Green_Infrastructure\/BLUE%20BTV%20Year%203%20Report.pdf\">Three Year Report<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Permeable driveway at a home in Burlington, VT BLUE Partners:&nbsp;The&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_eb_attr":"","_price":"","_stock":"","_tribe_ticket_header":"","_tribe_default_ticket_provider":"","_tribe_ticket_capacity":"0","_ticket_start_date":"","_ticket_end_date":"","_tribe_ticket_show_description":"","_tribe_ticket_show_not_going":false,"_tribe_ticket_use_global_stock":"","_tribe_ticket_global_stock_level":"","_global_stock_mode":"","_global_stock_cap":"","_tribe_rsvp_for_event":"","_tribe_ticket_going_count":"","_tribe_ticket_not_going_count":"","_tribe_tickets_list":"[]","_tribe_ticket_has_attendee_info_fields":false,"footnotes":"","_tec_slr_enabled":"","_tec_slr_layout":""},"class_list":["post-2500","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"acf":[],"ticketed":false,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.uvm.edu\/seagrant\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2500","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.uvm.edu\/seagrant\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.uvm.edu\/seagrant\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.uvm.edu\/seagrant\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.uvm.edu\/seagrant\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2500"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.uvm.edu\/seagrant\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2500\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3373,"href":"https:\/\/www.uvm.edu\/seagrant\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2500\/revisions\/3373"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.uvm.edu\/seagrant\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2500"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}