One major initiative of the Clean Water Project is expanding the capacity of the Hartford Water Pollution Control Facility (pictured) and the Rocky Hill Water Pollution Control Facility. The expansions will result in fewer CSOs into the Connecticut River.
On your average sunny day in West Hartford, Connecticut, approximately 8 million gallons of water flows through the sanitary sewer system on its way to the state’s largest treatment plant — The Metropolitan District’s (The MDC) Hartford Treatment Plant.
It wasn’t unusual for The MDC — a nonprofit municipal corporation serving eight member communities — to see as much as 69 million gallons flow through that one system during a rain event. So, yes, inflow and infiltration...
