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Agency urges caution on bill to mandate household water meters, recommends water-supplier testimony
Summary
An Agency of Natural Resources official told the House Energy and Digital Infrastructure Committee that S.213’s cyber provisions have largely been addressed but warned the bill could impose burdens on small, often volunteer-run community water systems and recommended hearing from public works and water suppliers before advancing.
Rep. Kathleen James convened the House Energy and Digital Infrastructure Committee on March 26, where Brian Redmond, director of the Drinking Water and Groundwater Protection Division at the Agency of Natural Resources’ Department of Environmental Conservation, testified on S.213, a bill that would affect individual service-line water metering and include cyber-security provisions.
Redmond provided context on Vermont’s public water systems, saying there are about 1,400 systems statewide: roughly 700 transient non-community systems (restaurants, motels, campgrounds) and about 400 community systems such as schools, day‑care facilities and municipal suppliers. He described two meter types: production (master) meters that measure total finished water…
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