Water systems

Lead from decades-old pipes that connect water mains to buildings can leach into the drinking water supply, posing significant health risks.

Vermont Public's Mary Engisch speaks with Liz Royer, executive director of the Vermont Rural Water Association about how the flooding has impacted Vermont's water systems.

Vermont is home to nearly 1,000 dams. And many were pushed to the limit during last month’s catastrophic flooding, putting residents downstream at risk.

Vermont’s on and off again winter has overloaded some of the state’s aging waste water treatment systems, resulting in hundreds of thousands of gallons of…

Things got off to a rocky start this year for Chester-Andover Elementary School, after a water main leak flooded the building just before school opened.…

Vermont officials have been testing over a hundred wells in North Bennington and Bennington for the potentially hazardous chemical PFOA - after the…

If states were graded for their work on infrastructure, Vermont would earn a C. That’s according to a report released by the American Society of Civil…