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Vermont community takes on $2M septic crisis with the help of CDI’s WISP Program

Vermont
By April Myers October 23, 2024

HINESBURG, Vt. – In 2019, shortly after the residents of Sunset Lake Cooperative purchased their community, they noticed an odor coming from their land – and not a pleasant one.

“We started getting complaints of a sewage smell,” said Tim Hutchins, vice president of Sunset Lake Cooperative’s Board of Directors. “We came to find out that both of our leach fields were failing. It was something we inherited and to fix it was more than we paid for the park, but it has to be fixed.”

Permanently fixing Sunset Lake’s wastewater infrastructure is going to cost about $2 million, said Annik Paul, Program Associate for the Cooperative Development Institute’s Water Infrastructure Support Program (WISP). It will cost another $1 million to make needed fixes to the community’s water distribution system, she added.

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