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But after Irene caused widespread damage to public water systems, his division began rethinking how it plans for the dual challenges of floods and droughts. 'And I'm sure that's not the entire list,' Redmond noted.ДЄ decade ago, Redmond wouldn't have chalked up such problems to climate change. To boost output from its two low-producing wells, Warren's South Village development is considering fracking, or injecting high-pressure water into the bedrock, a method akin to what's used in oil and gas extraction. Another, in East Thetford, had to tap a new emergency well. One, in East Berkshire, started hauling water in from elsewhere in August and continued doing so through September. This year, at least seven public systems have experienced supply problems, according to the DEC. Those 400 systems range from tiny ones that serve a handful of mobile home residents to the Champlain Water District, the state's largest, which pumps about 10 million gallons from Lake Champlain daily for 75,000 residents in northwestern Vermont. Vermont has approximately 1,400 public water suppliers, of which about 400 are community systems that serve at least 25 year-round residents, explained Bryan Redmond, director of the state Department of Environmental Conservation's drinking water and groundwater protection division. Community water systems have tapped out their wells, taxing their infrastructure and their financial resources as they scramble for solutions. Every year it gets a little drier.'ДЄnd not only private wells are running dry. 'I've seen this going on for about six years now. We're hauling all day, every day,' said Owen, who's owned the company since 2003. Since January alone, he estimated, he's pumped 3 million gallons, most of which he buys from the Champlain Water District. This year, the deliveries to homeowners whose wells ran dry more than compensated for his pandemic losses. In non-COVID-19 times, Owen would have spent the summer providing drinking water for outdoor festivals and filling swimming pools and hot tubs. 'When this is all over,' he said, 'it'll be nice to take a hot shower.'Дriver Steve Owen, owner of Fresh Water Haulers in Underhill, has been getting calls like Stoll's for months now. Essentially, Stoll paid $325 to pump water into the ground, in hopes that it would stay put long enough for him to use it. Stoll dropped the nozzle in the well, then hollered to the driver. Removing the well cap, Stoll peered down into the nearly empty 20-foot hole, which he said had run dry only once before in 15 years.

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As the driver unspooled his hose, 61-year-old Stoll dragged it 400 feet through his backyard, into the woods and down a ravine to a decades-old concrete well. The solution - a water truck delivering 4,500 gallons - soon arrived. 'When I start to smell, it's time to do something about it,' he joked. Stoll's well had run dry about a week earlier, and he hadn't bathed or done laundry since.

Rain events of three inches or more are expected to happen twice every three years by the end of this century, an increase from the current rate of less than once per decade.Дavie Stoll stood far back from a reporter visiting his wooded Hinesburg property, but his social distancing wasn't motivated just by COVID-19. Days with rainfall of an inch or more are twice as common as they were a century ago. Indeed, annual precipitation in the state has risen by nearly seven inches in the past 50 years. So that's a big challenge for Vermont going forward.' 'But in between, we're going to have these prolonged dry spells. It's increasing in extreme rainfall,' Galford said. 'We expect to see increasing precipitation, and it's not just increasing on average, in dribs and drabs spread out on every day of the year. Among its greatest emerging impacts, she said, are changing patterns of precipitation - too much, not enough or, occasionally, both in the space of months. Her team's report will provide state policy makers with the most up-to-date picture of how the climate crisis is affecting the state. When it comes to precipitation, Vermont's trend lines are moving steadily to the extremes. And the pouring-to-parched cycle tracks a troubling forecast for the state, according to Gillian Galford, a research associate professor who is heading the University of Vermont's 2020 climate assessment, a study that is due out next summer. Though some rain has returned this fall, it hasn't been wet enough to pull Vermont out of its current water deficit. WeвЂ™ll also look at ways to become more resilient in the face of changes that may be inevitable.

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вЂњFired UpвЂќ is a semi-regular series exploring VermontвЂ™s climate-related challenges and what residents are trying at a local level to mitigate the planetвЂ™s heating trend - noting whatвЂ™s catching on and what isnвЂ™t.

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