Sewer overflow issues finally came to a head for the Metropolitan District (Hartford, Connecticut) in the early 2000s.
The Metropolitan District, a nonprofit municipal corporation that supplies water and sewer services to eight member communities, has been saddled with Hartford’s 150-year-old combined sewer system since it was established in 1929. The 100-year-old sanitary systems of the surrounding towns they inherited weren’t in great shape either.
In the early 2000s, approximately 1 billion gallons of untreated wastewater overflowed annually into area streams and waterways, which caught the attention of the EPA and the Connecticut Department of Energy and Environmental Protection . The result
