COLCHESTER, Vt. (WCAX) – If you live in or around Colchester, you should prepare for some construction disruption.
Work will start on the Mallett’s Bay sewer project next month.
Colchester Public Works held an informational meeting tonight to discuss the construction details. It’s an environmental abatement project that will provide sewer service to properties with frontage on West Lakeshore Drive between the Prim Road and Bayside intersection, all of East Lakeshore Drive, and Goodsell Point.
Detours, closures, and delays are expected around those areas when construction begins, but crews say mail and trash services will continue as usual, and school buses will be able to pick up and drop off kids.
The goal of the project is to help address water quality issues in the bay, which one resident says he appreciates.
“The whole project which is gonna result in a cleaner Malletts Bay. I’m a fisherman, and my kids swim and water ski and stuff, and I think over time this will be a real boom to Malletts Bay and the people in the area,” said Colchester resident Tom Bock.
Not everyone is excited about the project. It’s been contested by numerous people who say it won’t solve the root of the water quality issues in the bay, and that traffic from construction will only discharge more toxins into the bay.
Crews are expecting to finish construction by 2027.