Research snapshot · Waste · 31 August 2026

Solid waste operations in Vermont: 14 towns on the record, the pace easing

This page is a snapshot, cut 31 August 2026, of a topic that moves. Below is the shape of the movement, read from the towns' own meeting records, and the way to get a view of it that stays current.

Snapshot taken 31 August 2026, based on 32 dated municipal records flagged as solid waste operations in Vermont, spanning 14 municipalities. The topic moves; a later cut supersedes this page.

What this page is for one topic at state or national scope, told as a story: how it arrived, the shape of its movement, a dated snapshot of a moving record, and the door to a view of it that stays current. If it does not, write to us; that is what changes the next edition.

The story so far

The record starts in Barre Town, 17 April 2019. Since then 14 Vermont towns have put the topic on a meeting record, the newest of them Rutland Town on 28 May 2026.

The last 90 days put 1 meeting on the record, well down from 6 in the 90 days before.

It runs through the rooms where budgets and ordinances are made: Significant Activity Reports, Colchester Newsletters and City Manager&#39s Weekly Report.

The shape of the movement

Dated meetings on the record at this scope, quarter by quarter, and the same 90-day count as a rolling line, whose right-hand point is that number. Counts of documents, never a reading of what they decided.
QuarterMeetingsTowns
Sep 2025 to Nov 202564
Dec 2025 to Feb 202643
Mar 2026 to May 202665
Jun 2026 to Aug 2026 (current)11

a rolling 90-day total, so the right-hand point is that same 90-day count. The busiest stretch was Sep 2025 to Nov 2025, with 6 meetings.

The towns on the record14, earliest first

Every Vermont town carrying the topic, the earliest first, each with its latest document.
Barre Townearliest 2019-04-17 · 1 meeting · latest 2019-04-17 · the document Minutes And Agendasdc — tsacm041719
Colchesterearliest 2023-06-12 · 2 meetings · latest 2024-05-28 · the document For the Week of May 28, 2024
Hartfordearliest 2024-06-11 · 7 meetings · latest 2025-09-30 · a report Significant Activity Report - September 30, 2025
Newportearliest 2024-12-09 · 1 meeting · latest 2024-12-09 · the minutes minutes125
Williamstownearliest 2025-06-03 · 1 meeting · latest 2025-06-03 · the document 20250512-selectboard-mins-williamstown-vt
Derbyearliest 2025-06-05 · 2 meetings · latest 2026-04-23 · the minutes 2026 04 13 SB Minutes
Fair Havenearliest 2025-07-18 · 3 meetings · latest 2025-11-13 · the ordinance junk ordinance -APPROVED 8-2025
Montpelierearliest 2025-07-25 · 2 meetings · latest 2026-01-19 · the document Media Log January 19, 2026 - January 25, 2026 (PDF)
Westminsterearliest 2025-09-16 · 7 meetings · latest 2026-06-25 · the minutes WCC-minutes- 6.25.26
Bristolearliest 2025-10-27 · 1 meeting · latest 2025-10-27 · the document 6d.Bristol Capital Projects Completed:Canceled Summary 2025-10-27
Lyndonearliest 2026-02-04 · 1 meeting · latest 2026-02-04 · the ordinance Town-Ordinances-Final-02-04-26
Jerichoearliest 2026-04-15 · 2 meetings · latest 2026-05-21 · the agenda AgendaCenter agenda
Shelburneearliest 2026-04-28 · 1 meeting · latest 2026-04-28 · the agenda Regular meeting.
Rutland Townearliest 2026-05-28 · 1 meeting · latest 2026-05-28 · the minutes Finance Committee Minutes 5-27-2026

From the record

The most recent documents behind this page, one per town. Each link opens the town's own file.

25 June 2026 · Westminster

the minutes, on the town's own site WCC-minutes- 6.25.26

28 May 2026 · Rutland Town

the minutes, on the town's own site Finance Committee Minutes 5-27-2026

21 May 2026 · Jericho

the agenda, on the town's own site AgendaCenter agenda

28 April 2026 · Shelburne Selectboard Meetings

the agenda, on the town's own site Regular meeting.

Companies on this record98 companies, 21 documents

Named in the same documents that carry this topic, read from the record itself: the firms designing, building and advising the work, each with where the record places them:
VLCTDerby, Hartford
Casella Waste SystemsColchester, Hartford
Airport Road LLCWilliamstown
American Water WorksHartford
Austin ConstructionDerby
AVCCWestminster
Babson CollegeWestminster
Barre Town Police Dept.Barre Town
Bergerons (Denise & Greg)Barre Town
Brian Hanson Scholarship ProgramHartford
Champlain Housing TrustShelburne
Chittenden Solid Waste DistrictJericho
Cilley Hill Road DamJericho
Clara Martin Liaison Kaitlin GeorgeHartford
Colchester-Milton RotaryColchester
Connecticut River Grassland BirdsWestminster
Core & MainHartford
CVRPCBarre Town
CWSDColchester
DuBois & KingJericho
Environmental Policy Innovation Center (EPIC)Hartford
EPICHartford
Estes & GallopHartford
FERCHartford
FISHDerby
For Those Who WouldWestminster
Friends of the WinooskiJericho
GarminBarre Town
GFL EnvironmentalHartford
GMEDCHartford

And 68 more companies.

The documents naming each, and the threads they sit in, are the account view. If one of these is you, those are your projects on the record. Ask and we will show you every one, and the towns around them, as they move.

A snapshot of a moving record

Everything above is frozen at 31 August 2026; the topic is not. 132 more events on this topic carry no usable date and are counted, never dated. The counts follow where we read most: a town or a state absent here was not read at depth, and absence is not evidence the topic is absent there. A lighter-read state is not a ceiling; where you care about a region, pointing the system there is the first thing an account changes. How coverage is built, and its known limits: municipalalpha.com/methodology.

How we can tell you about it ongoing

We track this topic continuously; this page is one cut of it, taken 31 August 2026. An account turns the snapshot into a working view: every town and every document behind these counts, the thread on each matter as it develops, word of new meetings as they land on the record, your own states and topics side by side, and the data itself when you want it in a table. The towns above are the taste; what each is actually deciding, funding or stalling is the read an account carries.

Also at this scope: Solid waste operations across the country. Counts and dates are computed from the documents on the record; the topic and its definition are ours. This page carries no subscriber content.

Solid waste operations, Vermont

from the towns' own meeting records

Scope

Vermont

every topic this state carries

Area

Waste

every topic in this area

Towns on the record

14

with a dated document on this topic

Earliest

17 April 2019

the documents' dates

Meetings, last 90 days

1 against 6 before

dated documents

Snapshot cut

31 August 2026

this page's date

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