Connecticut State Council on Environmental Quality

3. EIE Notice for the Extension of Runway 18-36, Waterbury/Oxford Airport

Municipalities where project is located: Oxford and Middlebury

Project Description: The Proposed Action would extend Runway 18-36 to 5,800 feet from an existing 5,000 feet. It would be extended on the north end by 300 feet and the south end by 500 feet. Displaced thresholds will be placed at the termini of the existing runway. The current allowable landing length of 5,000 feet will not change. The takeoff lengths will increase from the current 5,000 feet to 5,500 feet in the northerly direction and 5,300 feet in the southerly direction. This will allow corporate jets that currently use the airport to take off with additional weight. Existing Taxiway A (which parallels Runway 18-36 to the west) will be extended to both ends of the new runway extensions. Taxiway B (which parallels the runway to the east) will be extended on the north end to the new runway end.

Project Map: CLICK HERE

Comments on the EIE will be accepted until the close of business on: Wednesday, January 15, 2003.

Copies of the EIE are available for public review at:

Town Clerk’s Office
Town of Oxford
486 Oxford Road
Oxford, Connecticut

Town Clerk’s Office
Town of Middlebury
1212 Whittemore Road
Middlebury, Connecticut

Oxford Public Library
486 Oxford Road
Oxford, Connecticut

Middlebury Public Library
Crest Road
Middlebury, Connecticut

Council of Governments of the Central Naugatuck Valley
20 East Main Street – Suite 303
Waterbury, CT

Connecticut State Library
231 Capitol Avenue
Hartford, Connecticut

There is a public hearing scheduled for this EIE on:

DATE:   Monday, December 16, 2002

TIME:   7:00 PM

PLACE:  Oxford Center School, 1 Great Hill Road, Oxford, Connecticut

Written Comments from the public are welcomed and will be accepted until the close of business on: Wednesday, January 15, 2003.

Written comments or exhibits must be reproducible in black and white and on paper not to exceed 8 ½" x 11" in size. These written statements or exhibits will be made a part of the administrative record and oral statements at the public hearing will be considered in the same manner.

Please send comments regarding this EIE to: Mr. Edgar T. Hurle, Director of Environmental Planning, Connecticut Department of Transportation, P.O. Box 317546, Newington, Connecticut 06131-7546, or email to: Edgar.Hurle@po.state.ct.us