Employee volunteers clean up litter in Naugatuck area watershed

Connecticut Water employee volunteers spent a recent Monday morning cleaning up litter from around reservoirs in the Naugatuck area. Keeping watershed areas clean protects the environment and also protects the source water, before it enters a treatment plant and goes out to customers.

A watershed channels water like rain or snowmelt into streams, rivers and reservoirs, which can be the source of drinking water. Undeveloped landscapes provide natural filtration of water before it reaches the drinking water source. Connecticut Water owns more than 6,500 acres of land throughout the state for source protection.  

Several reservoirs in the Naugatuck area supply the William Stewart Drinking Water Treatment Facility in Naugatuck with water. The Stewart facility is the largest single source of drinking water for Connecticut Water customers in the Naugatuck Valley (Beacon Falls, Bethany, Middlebury, Naugatuck, and Prospect). The treatment facility has the capacity to produce up to 6 million gallons of drinking water per day.

The public can learn more about the Stewart facility during an open house on June 26. For more information visit - https://www.ctwater.com/community-commitment/community-news/connecticut-water-invites-customers-to-learn-about-where-their-water-comes-from-during-treatment-facility-open-house-watershed-hikes/