On your average sunny day in West Hartford, Connecticut, approximately 8 million gallons of water flows through the sanitary sewer system on its way to the state’s largest treatment plant — The Metropolitan District’s (The MDC) Hartford Treatment Plant.
It wasn’t unusual for The MDC — a nonprofit municipal corporation serving eight member communities — to see as much as 69 million gallons flow through that one system during a rain event. So, yes, inflow and infiltration were a very significant problem for both The MDC and the communities it serves.That situation was compounded by Hartford’s 150-year-old combined sewer system and
Connecticut Sewer District Seeks Integrated Approach to Solve Overflows
A sewer district’s integrated approach aims to alleviate overflows in its member communities
Mar 23, 2021
| by Traci Browne |
