{"id":1038,"date":"2020-09-21T08:47:57","date_gmt":"2020-09-21T12:47:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dev.seagrant.w3.uvm.edu\/2020\/09\/21\/mo-monday-raise-the-blade-on-across-the-fence\/"},"modified":"2025-10-22T17:49:19","modified_gmt":"2025-10-22T21:49:19","slug":"mo-monday-raise-the-blade-on-across-the-fence","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.uvm.edu\/seagrant\/2020\/09\/21\/mo-monday-raise-the-blade-on-across-the-fence\/","title":{"rendered":"Mo Monday: Raise the Blade on &#8216;Across the Fence&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\n\tRecently, the Raise the Blade campaign was featured on the University of Vermont Extension\u2019s weekday television program,\u00a0<em>Across the Fence<\/em>.\u00a0The Lake Champlain Basin Program partnered with Peregrine Productions, LLC to produce a series of short films to help people understand the efforts that are underway to help clean up Lake Champlain. The film from that series that is featured in this episode of\u00a0<em>Across the Fence<\/em>\u00a0describes actions individuals can take to help keep water clean. Raising the blade on lawnmowers to three inches\u00a0is one of those things.<\/p>\n<p>\n\tCheck out the video below from the episode as a refresher about Raise the Blade guidelines\u00a0and to learn about some other simple actions individuals can take to help reduce and clean stormwater runoff before it leaves their properties.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><div class=\"video-filter\"><iframe src=\"\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/Q6dfBWBMYSg?modestbranding=0&#038;html5=1&#038;rel=0&#038;autoplay=0&#038;wmode=opaque&#038;loop=0&#038;controls=1&#038;autohide=0&#038;showinfo=0&#038;theme=dark&#038;color=red&#038;enablejsapi=0\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" class=\"video-filter video-youtube vf-q6dfbwbmysg\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"true\"><\/iframe><\/div>\n<\/p>\n<p>\n\tAnother program that is featured in this episode of\u00a0<em>Across the Fence<\/em>\u00a0is called BLUE\u00ae. This property site assessment program provides landowners with a personalized assessment and recommendations of how to reduce stormwater runoff from their properties. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.salix-solutions.com\/blue\">Learn more about this program and register for a free assessment.<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\n\tFor those who live in Burlington, Vermont, the video also shares an option to register to keep storm drains clean and free of debris, which helps keep pollutants out of Lake Champlain. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.burlingtonvt.gov\/DPW\/ADOPT-A-DRAIN\">Learn more and sign up to be a Drain Defender.<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\n\t<a href=\"https:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/kstepenu-mo\/\">Read more Mo Monday blogs on Kris Stepenuck&#8217;s blog page.<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Recently, the Raise the Blade campaign was featured on the&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1682,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","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":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"post_folder":[],"class_list":["post-1038","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.uvm.edu\/seagrant\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1038","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.uvm.edu\/seagrant\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.uvm.edu\/seagrant\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.uvm.edu\/seagrant\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.uvm.edu\/seagrant\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1038"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.uvm.edu\/seagrant\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1038\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1359,"href":"https:\/\/www.uvm.edu\/seagrant\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1038\/revisions\/1359"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.uvm.edu\/seagrant\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1682"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.uvm.edu\/seagrant\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1038"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.uvm.edu\/seagrant\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1038"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.uvm.edu\/seagrant\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1038"},{"taxonomy":"post_folder","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.uvm.edu\/seagrant\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/post_folder?post=1038"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}