NEWS RELEASE

December 19, 2001

MDC to Close on December 24 Except for Essential Services

HARTFORD – In keeping with Gov. John Rowland’s executive order declaring Monday, December 24, as a state holiday, the Metropolitan District Commission (MDC) will be closed on that day, except for essential services and emergency operations.

Business will resume on Wednesday, December 26.

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 Cole-brook River Dam in Colebrook. The MDC is an affirmative action and equal opportunity employer.

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EDITORS: For further information, contact: Matt Nozzolio
(860) 278-7850, ext. 3209