WEST HARTFORD – The Metropolitan District Commission (MDC), which for  79 years has been providing the region with clean, clear water and other services to improve the environment, is hosting an Earth Day Celebration from noon-4 p.m., Sunday, April 20, at the MDC’s West Hartford Reservoir, 1420 Farmington Ave.

The event will feature MDC exhibits highlighting water treatment and testing, wastewater treatment, household hazardous waste collection and the MDC’s Clean Water Project, which will upgrade the region’s wastewater collection system over the next 15 years.

The Eight Mile River Band will entertain with purely acoustic, “unplugged” bluegrass music. The band, comprised of some Connecticut’s finest and most experienced bluegrass musicians, has been entertaining audiences of all ages for decades.

Also, the original production, “Living the Green Dream,” one family’s solution to living more lightly on the planet, will be  performed on the reservoir grounds. The play offers easy, practical advice for families trying to be more environmentally conscious.

The event is free and open to public.

The MDC is a nonprofit municipal corporation chartered by the Connecticut General Assembly in 1929. The MDC provides water, sewer and household hazardous waste collection services to its member municipalities: Bloomfield, East Hartford, Hartford, Newington, Rocky Hill, West Hartford, Wethersfield and Windsor. In addition, under a series of special agreements, the District supplies treated water to Glastonbury, the southern portion of South Windsor, the eastern portion of Farmington, East Granby and Unionville.

The MDC’s Clean Water Project includes reduction of combined sewer overflows with the Hartford Central Sewer System, and elimination of sanitary sewer overflows in the sanitary sewers of Wethersfield, West Hartford, Windsor, Rocky Hill and Newington, and reduction of nitrogen discharging to Long Island Sound.

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