Hazardville Water Company Moves Into Newly Constructed Building

ENFIELD, CT — People passing by the brick building at 281 Hazard Ave. in the past two weeks have noticed a large sign indicating the site is available for lease. That does not, however, mean the Hazardville Water Company, which has had its offices there since the early 1990s, has gone out of business. Instead, the company has moved two and a half miles away, to a newly-constructed facility at 481 Taylor Road.

Hazardville Water services about 7,300 customers living along 117 miles of main requiring 12 wells capable of pumping 4.2 million gallons on any given day, according to the company's website.

The company moved into the Hazard Ave. building, which had previously housed the Hazardville branch of the Enfield Post Office, shortly after the U.S. Postal Service opened its current facility on Palomba Drive in 1990, combining the Hazardville and Thompsonville post offices into one centralized location.

Hazardville Water is privately owned, founded in 1892 by Amos D. Bridge and chartered in 1899. His family sold the company in 1937, and it has been owned since then by the Avery-Dewing families. Jonathan Avery is the current president.

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