Basin Planning for the
Upper Connecticut River Direct Drainages
Basin 16 is one of four basins that are atypical basins or planning units in Vermont. Thirteen of the seventeen basins are comprised of one or more major watersheds in the state. Basin 13 and Basin 16 consist of Connecticut River mainstem segments and mostly relatively small drainages that go directly to the Connecticut River. Basins 4 and 5 are mainly small drainages going directly to Lake Champlain.
Basin 16 consists of the northern Connecticut River and direct drainages to it from the Canadian border down to White River Junction. It includes the Nulhegan River watershed and the Paul Stream watershed among others. It does not include the Passumpsic River watershed (Basin 15) nor the Stevens, Wells, and Waits Rivers watersheds (these are part of Basin 14).