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Vermont Legislature
Follow VPR's statehouse coverage, featuring Pete Hirschfeld and Bob Kinzel in our Statehouse Bureau in Montpelier.

Cleaning Up Vermont's Water: Projects Are Clear, But Funding Remains Murky

Blue-green algae blooms in the summer of 2014 in Lake Champlain.
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Blue-green algae blooms in the summer of 2014 in Lake Champlain.

Vermont lawmakers agree the state needs millions of dollars' worth of clean water projects. But there's less agreement on where Vermont will get the roughly $60 million it needs to fund them. We're talking about clean water plans advancing in Montpelier and what the options are to pay for them.

, chair of the  committee, explains what is â€� and is not â€� included in  that passed the Senate but did not contain any funding mechanism for the various projects.

And Jon Groveman, policy and water program director for the , shares his concerns over clean water funding missing from the Senate bill and ways to fund water projects going forward.

Broadcast live on Tuesday, April 16, 2019 at noon; rebroadcast at 7 p.m.

Jane Lindholm is the host, executive producer and creator of But Why: A Podcast For Curious Kids. In addition to her work on our international kids show, she produces special projects for ¿ªÔÆÌåÓý. Until March 2021, she was host and editor of the award-winning ¿ªÔÆÌåÓý program Vermont Edition.
Matt Smith worked for ¿ªÔÆÌåÓý from 2017 to 2023 as managing editor and senior producer of Vermont Edition.

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