It’s becoming increasingly difficult for small towns across Vermont to remain economically viable. The reason? A lack of public wastewater treatment systems, which curtails efforts to build or expand homes and commercial buildings.
But the town of Warren and a handful of other communities have taken an innovative approach to this vexing economic development problem: A community septic system, in which individual septic and pump tanks are connected via a sewer line to a large waste tank that distributes to multiple drainfields.
So far, these towns are the exception to the rule. In fact, almost two-thirds of the state’s villages
