VT ANR Stream Alterations - Request For Contact

The River Management Program provides regulatory review and technical assistance to landowners, municipalities and other agencies to help determine the appropriate channel management practices necessary to resolve conflicts with river systems.

EMERGENCY PROTECTIVE MEASURE

This form fulfills the municipal obligation to electronically report an Emergency Protective Measure under the Stream Alteration Rules. Further guidance on the municipality’s obligations when authorizing an Emergency Protective Measure can be found here. A river management engineer (RME) will review the information. As part of verbal communications with the municipality, the RME may seek additional information to determine the existence of an imminent threat and the appropriate protective measure. Where the town has or will approve an activity to address an imminent threat to life or severe damage to property, the RME shall issue a preliminary written authorization.

* Indicates Required Information

Contact Information

Person Reporting the Emergency Measure:

First Name *

Last Name *

Job Title

Phone *

Email *

Secondary Contact Information

Person Authorizing the Emergency Measure:

Secondary First Name *

Secondary Last Name *

Secondary Job Title

Secondary Phone *

Secondary Email *

Project Information

911 Address of Project Site
Provide specific location information (road crossing, etc.) if address not known

Municipality *

Watercourse

Has a municipal governmental representative that has the authority to make health or safety determinations approved this Emergency Protective Measure? *

Yes

Emergency Protective Measures

The following Imminent Threat(s) exist because life is imperiled or there is a risk of severe property damage that would otherwise occur within the next 72 hours including:

(Check all that apply at the specific threatened site):

The stream channel has filled-in, and stream flows are presently, or with an impending storm will be, occurring outside of the channel.

Flood-related erosion has just occurred, damaging property and infrastructure, and further erosion at the site is imminent.

Infrastructure (e.g., roads and bridges) has been destroyed or made unusable and the lack of public access will threaten lives.

Flows are outside of the channel and are presently impinging on public infrastructure or a habitable structure.

The Emergency Protective Measure(s) will be consistent with the standards in Subchapter 27-704 of the Vermont Stream Alteration Rules and will minimize imminent threats by:

(Check all that apply at the specific threatened site):

Removing a limited quantity of sediment and debris and creating a channel for flows that otherwise result in the imminent threats that have or will occur when a defined channel does not exist.

Making stream bed or streambank fills necessary to limit further stream channel movement(s) that have or will otherwise result in imminent threats when public access is eliminated or property is severely damaged by erosion.

Repairing or replacing infrastructure, the loss of which is or would be an imminent threat to public health and safety.

Constructing a temporary berm to redirect flows that have or will otherwise result in imminent threats of severe damage to an improved property.

Has the River Management Engineer been notified by phone?

Yes