Hearing offers a new look at Lake Carmi crisis

Lake Carmi is not just about the cows. File photo by Mike Faher/VTDigger
Lake Carmi has been described more than once this legislative session as the poster child for Vermont’s water pollution problem. The House went so far in March as to approve a bill declaring Carmi “a lake in crisis” — overburdened by phosphorus, most of the blame laid on farms and farmers.
On Thursday the farmers of the Lake Carmi watershed had a chance to have their say. They appeared before a mix o