Notice of Scoping for Regional Wastewater Treatment Consolidation Study

Project Title: Regional Wastewater Treatment Consolidation Study

Municipalities where wastewater treatment plants are located: Naugatuck, Beacon Falls, Seymour, Ansonia, Derby

Project Description:

The study will provide a preliminary analysis to help determine the region's ability to increase capacity for properly treating wastewater in a consolidated facility or facilities, thereby leading to a reduction in long-term state and local capital improvements and a reduction of user fees.

Specifically, wastewater treatment plants in the municipalities of Naugatuck, Beacon Falls, Seymour, Ansonia and Derby will be analyzed for potential consolidation and/or the sharing of services.

The study will be conducted in two phases. Phase 1 tasks will include a review of existing planning documents and related and assessment of existing wastewater treatment facilities and collection system infrastructures. It will also provide an estimation of 20-year wastewater flows and load projections for each participating municipality summarize existing wastewater system management and governance for each participating municipality, and identify potential opportunities for cost savings and operational efficiencies through alternative approaches to system management and governance structure. In addition, Phase 1 will identify a long list of wastewater regionalization alternatives that appear to have initial merit for regionalization.

With authorization from the state Office and Policy and Management to proceed following the conclusion of Phase 1, Phase 2 will include an Environmental Impact Evaluation (EIE) and more extensive technical and engineering analysis, as well as identify a short list of alternatives and preferred alternative(s) to the systems currently in place.

Written comments from the public are welcomed and will be accepted until the close of business on:  July 8, 2018.

Any person can ask the sponsoring agency to hold a Public Scoping Meeting by sending such a request to the address below.  If a meeting is requested by 25 or more individuals, or by an association that represents 25 or more members, the sponsoring agency shall schedule a Public Scoping Meeting.  Such requests must be made by June 15, 2018.

Additional information about the project can be viewed in person at:

Written comments and/or requests for a Public Scoping Meeting should be sent to

If you have questions about the public meeting, or other questions about the scoping for this project, contact: