Op/Ed
Legislative Review: Paying for gold, getting dirt?
March 6, 2025
The three-acre rule in the Clean Water Act is a single paragraph in Vermont statutes. It affects property owners of three or more collective impervious acres, permitted before 2002 or never permitted. They must get a new stormwater permit to remediate the runoff from their property at their own expense and usually on their own property.
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