Vermont Statutes Title 24 (Appendix). Municipal Charters, App. c. 207 § 19. Water department

The Village may maintain a Water Department for the purpose of supplying its inhabitants, and as incident to that service, the inhabitants of adjoining towns and the Town of Rockingham, with water for domestic and other purposes, and may purchase and hold all necessary real and personal estate for that purpose, and may issue its corporate bonds to secure any present or future indebtedness for the establishing, enlarging, and extending of its water works; it may take, hold, and use such land adjacent to and surrounding the pond known as “Minard's Pond,” now owned by the Village, as may be necessary for the protection of the water of the pond from defilement, and may for that purpose enclose the pond or land so taken, by suitable fences, and whenever it shall be deemed necessary by the corporation to increase its supply of water for its Water Department, it may take and hold waters of any additional ponds, springs, or streams of water for that purpose, together with such lands surrounding and adjacent to the same as may be deemed necessary for the use and protection of the water of such ponds, springs, or streams from defilement, and may enclose the ponds, springs, or streams by suitable fences for the purpose of protection. The corporation may, by aqueduct, conduct the waters of the ponds, springs, or streams that may be taken in pursuance of this act into “Minard's Pond,” or the waters of “Minard's Pond,” and the ponds, springs, or streams to the Village of Bellows Falls and through the streets of the Village. And, for that purpose, may enter upon such lands as may be necessary, and may dig, lay, and from time to time repair aqueducts.