Lake Champlain
Lake Champlain is the sixth largest freshwater lake in the U.S. Covering 435 square miles, it holds over 6.8 trillion gallons of water, and sustains a complex ecosystem of people, plants, fish and wildlife. The Lake Champlain basin is home to over 650,000 permanent residents. Tourists and visitors add $880 million annually in lake-related expenditures to the regional economy. The lake adds
immeasurably to the quality of life in the Champlain Valley. The economic health of the region is inextricably linked to the health of the Lake.
 The Lake's drainage basin reaches far into the Adirondack region of New York, Vermont's Green Mountains, and part of southern Quebec - a watershed of 8,234 square miles of streams, rivers, lakes and ponds, forests, fields, farms and developed land.
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