Vt. officials on limiting sewage spilling into Lake Champlain

Heavy rainfall can mean trouble for many areas of the state. Aging community water systems can overflow and spill sewage into Lake Champlain. But people are working so smaller amounts of waste get dumped into the the lake.

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As rain falls down, the amount of sewage spilling into Lake Champlain goes up.

According to the Vermont Agency of Natural Resources, this occurs in communities with older infrastructures where stormwater and sewage pipes are combined, known as combined sewer overflows or CSOs. Officials say the pipes have limited capacity and with the added rainwater they can’t handle the increase and overflow. Cities like Rutland, Vergennes and Burlington have the highest amounts of spillage into the lake.

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