The MDC’s contractor for the Maple Avenue Area Combined Sewer Overflow  Abatement Project was Paganelli Construction Corp. of Suffield. All design and construction project management was accomplished by MDC staff.

Phase I, so called Maple Avenue Area South, involved the installation of approximately 3,500 feet of new sanitary sewers and about 800 feet of new storm drains in portions of Campfield and Maple avenues and in Douglas, Clarendon, Chapman, Preston and West Preston streets in Hartford. The pavement in portions of Maple Avenue and West Preston Street will be permanently restored early next year to minimize pavement overlaps with Phase II, called Maple Avenue Area North.

Work has begun on Phase II, which  includes the construction of about 3,600 feet of new sanitary sewer along with approximately 800 feet of new storm drain in portions of Maple Avenue and in Clifford and Mapleton streets in Hartford. Phase II is scheduled for completion by April 2003.

These two projects are essential for the components of the Combined Sewer Overflow abatement portion of the Metropolitan District Commission’s Phase I, Connecticut River Clean-up Program. The total price for both projects was  $5,782,919. The installation of the sanitary sewer and storm drainage piping will reduce the storm water to the sanitary sewerage system within the affected areas of the City of Hartford and, therefore, reduce the peak flows received at the Hartford Water Pollution Control Facility and reduce overflows from the sewers.

The full realization of these goals is contingent upon completion of several other projects within the Maple Avenue area, including catch basin sealing and roof drain downspout disconnections.

“The MDC appreciates the patience and cooperation of neighborhood residents and business throughout the project,” said Albert F. Reichin, MDC Chairman. 

MDC Commissioner Bruno W. Mazzulla of Hartford, Chairman of the MDC’s Bureau of Public Works, said, “The MDC has a made real, measurable progress in dramatically reducing combined sewer overflows. More than half of the overflows in the City of Hartford have been closed over the past 10 years. With our recently installed state-of-the art alarm system, we will continue to evaluate the sewage system to identify further overflows for closure,” he said.

Previous projects undertaken under the Connecticut River Cleanup Program Phase I included the Franklin Avenue sewer construction project; the expansion of the Hartford Water Pollution Control Facility and the construction of the Connecticut River Relief Interceptor. Together, these projects have resulted in preventing millions of gallons of combined sewer overflow from entering the Connecticut River.

A non-profit municipal corporation chartered by the Connecticut General Assembly in 1929, the MDC supplies water and sewer services to its eight member municipalities: Bloomfield, East Hartford, Hartford, Newington, Rocky Hill, West Hartford, Wethersfield and Windsor. The MDC supplies treated water to the Town of Portland and portions of Glastonbury, East Granby, South Windsor and Farmington. The MDC owns and operates two three-megawatt hydroelectric power stations, one at the Goodwin Dam in Hartland and one at the Colebrook River Dam in Colebrook.

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