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Water utility managers tell House panel AMI meters pose low health and cybersecurity risk, warn broad opt‑out mandates would raise costs
Summary
Water managers told the House Energy committee that radio‑read water meters in Vermont are one‑way, encrypted signals and that local opt‑out policies exist; they warned that mandatory, retroactive opt‑outs would be operationally disruptive and could shift substantial costs to ratepayers.
Representatives of Vermont water systems told the House Energy and Digital Infrastructure Committee that radio‑enabled water meters (part of advanced metering infrastructure, or AMI) pose little health or cybersecurity risk to drinking water operations, and they urged caution before imposing statewide opt‑out mandates.
Joe Duncan, general manager of Champlain Water District, described the historic shift from in‑home manual reads to touchpad and radio‑read systems and said the most common radio reads are one‑way, encrypted transmissions that report a meter serial number and a single reading. "I am Joe Duncan, general manager of Champlain Water District," he said, adding that municipal OT (operational technology) systems that run pumps and treatment are typically separated…
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