Fourteen projects across Central Massachusetts have received more than $152 million in federal and state low-interest-rate loans and grants to improve water quality, upgrade or replace drinking water and wastewater infrastructure, and reduce treatment plant energy use and costs.
The Connecticut Public Utilities Regulatory Authority (PURA) rejected a request from Bridgeport-based Aquarion Water Co. for a multi-year distribution rate increase and instead ordered the reduction of customer rates effective immediately.