Availability of Environmental Impact Evaluation

DEPARTMENT OF ENERGY AND ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION

Public Notice of Availability of Environmental Impact Evaluation
Naugatuck, Beacon Falls, Seymour, Ansonia and Derby

The Department of Energy and Environmental Protection hereby gives notice that an Environmental Impact Evaluation has been prepared pursuant to Section 22a-1b of the Connecticut General Statues and Section 22a-1a-7 of the Regulations of Connecticut State Agencies for the proposed Regional Wastewater Study prepared for the Department of Energy and Environmental Protection and the Naugatuck Valley Council of Governments dated July 1, 2021.     

The report recommends decommissioning the Derby and Seymour wastewater treatment facilities, and pumping wastewater from those communities to an expanded regional facility located at the site of the current Ansonia treatment plant.  The study also recommends pumping the treated effluent from the regional facility back to Derby for discharge to the Housatonic River.  The required treatment plant and conveyance infrastructure would be implemented in a phased approach, over a period of six years. The study comprised of five municipalities: Naugatuck, Beacon Falls, Seymour, Ansonia and Derby, where each of the communities have their own treatment plants.  The study explored regional alternatives as an option to the alternative where each community continues to address their own wastewater needs and act individually to meet those needs.  The primary objective of the consolidation study was to investigate the potential for cost efficiencies through a more regionalized approach to wastewater treatment for the communities in the study area. Copies of this document are available at the Water Protection and Land Reuse Bureau of the Department of Energy and Environmental Protection at 79 Elm Street, Hartford, CT, 06106 or by calling Stela Marusin at 860-424-3742 or email to stela.marusin@ct.gov.  A copy is also available for inspection at the office of the Naugatuck Valley Council of Governments (NVCOG) and in the town clerk’s offices in Naugatuck, Beacon Falls, Seymour, Ansonia and Derby.  The deadline for submission of comments is December 6, 2021.
    

Jennifer L. Perry, P.E.
Director of Water Planning & Management Division
Bureau of Water Protection and Land Reuse     

Published in the Waterbury Republican American and Connecticut Post on October 7, 2021.

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