Award-Winning Vermont Water Treatment Plant Goes Green.

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The Champlain Water District, which serves 68,000 customers in the Burlington, Vermont region is the largest surface treatment drinking water facility in the state.

The District has won many prestigous awards for innovation in water treatment methods.

Mike Barsotti is the director of water quality and production there. Today he was conducting one of many educational tours he gives of the plant's operations for middle school students at Frederick Tuttle Middle School in South Burlington. He showed them where their plant stores cool air from the lake water they filter. This is then used for air conditioning in the hotter months of the year to cool off the plant thereby reducing their plant's carbon footprint. it is this kind of thinking that will enable our communties and businesses to thrive in a more ecologically smart way. Find out more at their website http://www.cwd-h2o.org/index2.html

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