Grants in Aid Program Continues to Benefit Towns, and Their Roads
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Just about every town road crew in the Windham Region (or their contractors) are busy this summer working on road drainage projects funded through the Vermont Agency of Transportation. Stone or grass ditching and new, larger culverts are just some of the practices being put in place. The ultimate goal is to improve water quality under the direction of Vermont’s Municipal Roads General Permit (MRGP), but many towns acknowledge these practices are also making their roads more resilient. With these improvements to their drainage systems, roads are washing out less often during intense rainstorms.
This is the fifth year Grants in Aid funding has been available to Windham Region towns; many towns have participated every year. Originally under the direction of the Agency of Natural Resources, and with technical, on-the-ground support from Regional Planning Commissions (including WRC), the next round of the Grants in Aid funding is moving fully to Vtrans (Grants in Aid webpage). All eligible towns in the Region will be participating in year six of the program, so you can expect to see similar work happening on our town’s roads in 2023.
Photo: Dummerston's road crew uses a haybale shreader to apply mulch to a seeded ditch on Stickney Brook Road.
