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Rutland CountyVermont

Killington, Vermont

1 high-hazard dam is rated in poor or unsatisfactory condition. Bedrock sits a median 15 ft down across 782 logs, shallower than the Vermont median of 20 ft.

Median depth to bedrock

15 ft

middle half 8–28 ft · 782 logs

Bridges rated poor

1

of 12 inventoried

Poor high-hazard dams

1

National Inventory of Dams

FEMA repair $, Rutland County

$24.0M

federal share since 2010 · county-wide

01 · Dams & disasters

1 high-hazard dam needs work

FEMA Public Assistance is reported by county, so the figure below is Rutland County-wide context, not a Killington number.
High-hazard dams in poor condition in Killington
DamConditionBuilt
Snowshed PondRoaring Brook-Tr-OsUnsatisfactory1970

High hazard potential means failure would probably cost lives — it rates the consequences, not the dam’s condition.

FEMA Public Assistance, Rutland County

$24.0M

Federal share obligated across 536 projects in 8 declared disasters since 2010. The largest category is roads & bridges (69%); roads & bridges took $16.5M.
Dams, disasters & moving ground

02 · Ground

Rock turns up a median 15 ft down

From 782 depth-to-rock records inside Killington (Vermont DEC well records). Logs cluster where people drill wells and bore for roads, so treat this as the town’s pattern, not a site answer.

Half of Killington's logs reach rock between 8 and 28 ft

Depth to bedrock: 10th–90th percentile whisker, middle-half box, median tick; dashed line = Vermont median.
median 15 ft
VT 20 ft
02040 ft
0501001502002500–5 ft5–10 ft10–20 ft20–50 ft50–100 ft100+ ft
n = 782 logsSource: Vermont DEC well records
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Depth to rock (ft)Logs
0–578
5–10151
10–20235
20–50233
50–10056
100+29

Rock within 10 ft

36%

of logs (34% across Vermont). Shallow rock means ledge in excavations, refusal for driven piles and rock anchors rather than soil nails; deep ground means taller shoring and more groundwater. 10% of logs here go past 50 ft.
Bedrock & soils across New England

03 · Bridges

1 of 12 bridges are rated poor — above the Vermont rate of 4%

Every highway bridge and large culvert in the 2025 National Bridge Inventory that stands inside Killington. Median age 24 years; 1 posted for weight.

58% good, 8% poor

FHWA good / fair / poor rating — the lowest of deck, superstructure, substructure or culvert.
  • Good7 · 58%
  • Fair4 · 33%
  • Poor1 · 8%
n = 12 structuresSource: FHWA National Bridge Inventory 2025
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BuiltStructures
1920s1
1930s1
1950s1
1960s1
1970s1
1990s1
2010s4
2020s2

The poor-rated bridges

Bridges rated poor in Killington
CarriesOverBuiltDaily traffic
C3047ROARING BROOK192560
Every poor bridge in New England

04 · Money & permits

1 ground-related permits in the city's open data

Ground-related permits in open data

1

Permits in the city’s open-data portal that mention retaining walls, excavation or foundations. Only a handful of portals are read, so this counts what is published, not everything built.
How long permits take

05 · Next door

Killington and the 6 towns that border it

A dash means no data for that layer, not zero.
Killington compared with neighbouring towns
TownPoor bridgesRock depth
Killington, VT1 / 1215 ft
Bridgewater, VT1 / 3820 ft
Plymouth, VT2 / 2817 ft
Chittenden, VT0 / 1933 ft
Stockbridge, VT1 / 1630 ft
Mendon, VT0 / 956 ft
Pittsfield, VT0 / 940 ft

Where these numbers come from

Method, sources & caveats

Killington is the Census county subdivision 5002137685 (Rutland County). Every record is placed here by its coordinates, not by the place name the source uses.

  • Towns are Census county subdivisions: cities, towns, plantations, and Maine/New Hampshire unorganized territories and townships. Every record is placed in a town by its coordinates (point-in-polygon), not by the source's own place label — so a bridge in Roxbury counts for Boston and a well in 'North Waltham' counts for Waltham.
  • Bridges: FHWA NBI 2025, highway structures ≥ 20 ft including large culverts. 'Poor' is FHWA's good/fair/poor rating (lowest of deck, superstructure, substructure or culvert ≤ 4). Percent-poor is shown only for towns with at least 5 structures.
  • Depth to bedrock is the median of driller- and boring-reported depths in the town, shown only where at least 10 logs exist. Water-well logs over-sample rural lots and hilltops; one town median never describes a particular site.
  • Bedrock depths use the same state databases and filters as the Bedrock & soils module (bedrock wells and borings that reached rock, 0 < depth ≤ 400 ft, exact re-filings dropped), but every log is placed in a town by its coordinates rather than the driller's town field, so town counts can differ slightly between the two pages. Connecticut and Rhode Island have no statewide public well-log database with depths.
  • Dams: only high-hazard-potential dams whose latest condition assessment is Poor or Unsatisfactory are counted (live NID). Connecticut and Rhode Island assessments may lag.
  • FEMA Public Assistance dollars are federal share obligated for disasters declared since 2010, reported by county — they are county context, not a town figure.
  • Grant awards are Massachusetts only (EEA Dam & Seawall program, MVP Action grants, CZM Coastal Resilience). Other states' programs are not yet included.
  • Ground-related permit counts cover only the municipal portals the pipeline reads (Boston, Cambridge, Somerville, Worcester, Framingham, Providence, Portsmouth, Hartford and a few others) — an absent count means 'not covered', not zero.
Data as of
Sep 11, 2026
Generated
Sep 11, 2026
Records
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Published by Earth Support Corp as a public resource. Regional statistics for planning and curiosity. They are not an engineering report, a bid recommendation or a statement about any particular site, firm or project. Spot an error? Tell us and we will correct it. Full method: methodology.

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