Informational Meeting on September 24 regarding Improvements to Connecticut Water's Rockville Water Treatment Plant and UConn/Mansfield Pipeline Project

Connecticut Water is holding a public information meeting in Vernon on September 24 to discuss plans for major treatment improvement at the Rockville Water Treatment Plant (RWTP). The RWTP is the Company’s oldest surface water treatment plant, and has been continuously serving customers in 10 northern Connecticut communities for nearly 45 years. The plant received significant upgrades during the 1980s and again in the late ’90s to meet increasingly stringent water quality standards required by the Safe Drinking Water Act.

According to Craig J. Patla, Connecticut Water’s Vice President of Service Delivery, the Company has been looking to upgrade treatment technology for nearly two decades. He stated, “As far back as the early 1990s Connecticut Water was evaluating options for upgrades in treatment technology. New cost effective technologies and construction techniques have made it possible to make treatment plant upgrades now that will provide greater reliability, and meet current and future water supply needs over the next 50 years.”

Once the RWTP improvements are completed, the facility will use Dissolved Air Flotation technology and will have the capacity to treat up to 9 million gallons of drinking water per day (mgd), which in an increase of 3 mg over the plant’s current capacity.
In addition to plans for the RWTP, the Company will discuss the status of the pipeline project to bring supplemental water supply to UConn and customers in Mansfield and explain how these can be done and still provide protections for Lake Shenipsit Reservoir and the Hockanum River.

Mr. Patla stated, “The Company looks forward to discussing the project and hearing feedback from the community.”

In addition to representatives from Connecticut Water, the Company’s environmental consultant who conducted the assessment on Lake Shenipsit and Hockanum River will be attending, as will representatives from UConn. The Informational meeting is scheduled for 7 p.m. at Vernon Town Hall in the Council Chambers, 14 Park Place, Rockville-Vernon, Connecticut.