Officials say that the millions invested in cleaning up Lake Carmi should cut phosphorus pollution almost in half.

A very generous state “loan” program will help towns and cities clean up their water supplies.

Treated, but not disinfected, wastewater flowed from the Burlington ‘treatment’ plant for almost an hour during a rainstorm Friday because the plant ran out of bleach. Oops! Swimmers, beware.

Vermonters may not be working, but the plan to clean up Lake Champlain is.

Farmers being blamed for runoff polluting Vermont streams and lakes say business has been bad for a long time and they can’t afford the cleanups mandated by the State. One Middlebury farmer had to sell his cows to pay the bank. And pressure about manure runoff didn’t help.

Is the real waste going into the lake our tax dollars? Vermont’s state auditor weighs in.

Gross and tragic. How do we fix this?