New Sewer Pump Station Approved By Avon Voters

AVON, CT — Voters flexed their democratic muscles Tuesday night in Avon, easily approving a funding package for a sewer pump upgrade project in town.

With a 21-2 special town meeting vote at Avon High School, meeting attendees said "yes" to appropriating $500,000 in grant funds and $1.325 million in surplus sewer funds to modernize the pump station on Route 44 in town.

The upgrade of the Route 44 sanitary sewer pump station is not expected to cost taxpayers any additional funding, according to town officials.

Built in the early 1980s, the current sewer pump station originally was intended to serve the Hunter's Run condominium development off Nod Road.

But since then, town officials said, the area has seen significant development and a greater amount of wastewater/sewage is taxing the aging system, hence the need for an upgrade.

The sewer pump station's job is simple, it is to move sewage through parts of town where gravity doesn't work in taking sewage away.

The waste from the Route 44 pump station, ultimately, ends up at the Simsbury Water Pollution Control facility.

For more information on the Route 44 sewer pump station project, click on this link.

From Sept. 26: 'Sewer Pump Upgrade In Avon Going To Voters'