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Champlain Water District outlines system scope, usage trends and capital approach
Summary
Joe Duncan, general manager of Champlain Water District, briefed the Junction City Council on the district's service area, customer water use (including large industrial users), long-term conservation trends and the utility's approach to capital planning and rate changes.
Joe Duncan, general manager of Champlain Water District, told the Junction City Council on March 26 that the district is a wholesale water supplier that draws from Shelburne Bay in Lake Champlain, treats water at a plant on Queen City Park Road in South Burlington and delivers it to nine member municipalities, including Essex Junction.
Duncan said Champlain Water District has provided treated water since the early 1970s and that Essex Junction is the district’s largest municipal customer by volume primarily because of GlobalFoundries’ industrial use. “They use around 3,000,000 gallons a day,” Duncan said. He said Essex Junction’s…
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