By Martin Begnal Republican-American
SEYMOUR Officials and environmental groups Monday, June 6 called on the owners of a hydroelectric dam on the Naugatuck River that hasn't produced a single watt of energy in two years and has never allowed fish to migrate upriver, to either fix it or walk aw
The dam, which hasn’t produced electricity in years, is the last obstacle preventing migratory fish from reaching the upper portion of the Naugatuck River.
Top Waterbury, state and federal officials gathered in the cracked parking lot of a crumbling industrial complex in Waterbury Thursday afternoon, celebrating $4 million in new federal brownfield cleanup funds that will help clear away industrial eyesores in the greater Waterbury area.
It is part of a larger pool of about $7 million in new brownfield funds coming to Connecticut, in part, from the $1 trillion Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act of 2021.