1. Notice of Scoping for Hawleyville Low-Pressure Sewer Extension

Municipality where proposed project would be located: Newtown

Project Location: Residential and commercial/industrial properties along Route 6 (Mount Pleasant Road), Route 25 (Hawleyville Road), Covered Bridge Road and Hillcrest Drive.

Project Description: As part of an economic development project, the Town of Newtown desires to provide developed and undeveloped parcels with access to public sewers as depicted in Figure 1. The purpose of the project is to incentivize development within the Hawleyville Area pursuant to the goals established by the Town’s Economic Development Commission and in accordance with Housatonic Valley Council of Elected Officials (HVCEO) Guidance Bulletin #94.

Utilizing a Small Town Economic Assistance Program (STEAP) Grant and benefit assessments not exceeding the appraised value of each property that connects to the system, the town intends to provide a low-pressure sanitary sewer system servicing the properties abutting the above listed roadways. Properties that are currently developed will be provided with a semi-positive displacement grinder pump and a service lateral extending from the grinder pump discharge to the low-pressure sewer main in the street. For commercial/industrial properties that are currently undeveloped, the intent of the project is to provide an adequately sized, low-pressure sewer connection stub to the property line to serve the property in the future. In addition, the Town intends to purchase and stockpile pumps capable of pumping the design flowrate based upon existing zoning for the undeveloped properties.

In order to convey the complete buildout scenario presented in the 1998 Hawleyville Area Facility Plan and based on the land use mix presented in the HVCEO Bulletin #94, a 6-inch dry forcemain will be installed in the same trench as the low pressure sewer, providing sufficient project budget exists. The 6-inch forcemain will extend from the proposed manhole directly in front of the Midway Home Estates to the intersection of Route 6 and Route 25 and be capped there. The purpose of this forcemain will be to convey future wastewater, which can drain via gravity along Mount Pleasant Road to the intersection with Route 25. The developers of the two large vacant properties would be responsible for siting and providing the pump station to serve their properties.

Wastewater collected from the proposed collection system will flow westward and discharge into an existing manhole directly upstream of the existing Toll Brothers Pump Station at 164 Mount Pleasant Road. From there, the wastewater flow is pumped along Route 6 to Bethel’s collection system and ultimately discharged for treatment at the Danbury Wastewater Treatment Facility. In all, it is estimated that approximately 7,350 linear feet of low pressure sewer and approximately 500 linear feet of gravity sewer will be provided as part of this project.

Project Maps:  Click here to view a map of the proposed sewer infrastructure.
                         Click here to view a map of the sewer service area.

Written comments from the public are welcomed and will be accepted until the close of business on: March 6, 2015

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 February 13, 2015.

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 Mr. Esguerra, as directed above.

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