Flood relief available to Vermont businesses

Businesses damaged by Vermont’s summer floods can now get up to $16,000 cash back through increased rebates and expanded eligibility from Efficiency Vermont’s flood recovery offers.

We don’t want to say it’s part of the new normal, whatever that might mean, but it’s no coincidence that these freakish storms are related to higher-than-normal global temperatures with a climate changing faster than anticipated.

Many Addison County residents will remember 2023 as the year during which they never left home without an umbrella.

In the days and months after the July floods that devastated much of Vermont, Lesley-Ann Dupigny-Giroux’s inbox filled with requests. 

Well, it happened again. Sunday night it started raining and just kept on.

This winter, Bristol officials will continue to monitor a stretch of Briggs Hill Road that was considerably damaged by heavy rains this summer. 

“It was comparable to Tropical Storm Irene. We lost a lot (though not all) of the young-of-year age class.” Austin Galinat, a fisheries scientist with Vermont Fish and Wildlife, was giving me an overview of some of the results of the late summer and early … (read more)

The Vermont Community Foundation has awarded another $2,359,846 in flood recovery and relief grants across the state, including $418,500 in grants made directly to farmers under the Farm Disaster Relief Grant Program.

New federal funding is available to cover public expenses prompted by flooding this August 3 and 4 in Addison County.

Local towns may get federal money to pay for more than a million dollars in cleanup and repair from Aug. 3-4 rainstorms in Addison County if a disaster declaration is delcared.

Most segments of the 16-mile hiking loop, which is maintained by Middlebury Area Land Trust, are worse for wear since the deluge, but two areas in particular require serious repair.

A new box culvert is beginning to take shape on Route 116 in Middlebury, which has been closed to through traffic since Aug. 3 when flooding wiped out the prior culvert near Dow Pond.

Addison County Regional Planning Commission (ACRPC), Lewis Creek Association (LCA), and landowners have removed the old bridge abutments and concrete in Hollow Brook near Lazy Brook Manufactured Housing Community on Hollow Road in Starksboro.

In the absence of federal relief, the United Way of Addison County has established an “Addison County Responds: Flood Relief Fund” to support Addison County residents who’ve experienced home and/or property damage from this summer’s rainfall and need fina … (read more)

Heavy rains that hit the state in July alone caused over $3 million worth of damage to Addison County farms, according to a survey conducted by the Vermont Agency of Agriculture, Food & Markets this month.