Polluted by more than a century of metal manufacturing, the 17.4-acre former Anamet manufacturing campus near the center of Waterbury has sat abandoned and decaying for nearly two decades, visited mostly by homeless individuals, drug users and vandals.
The city of Waterbury and state have poured more than $5 million into cleaning and preparing the property for reuse, much of it going into demolition of crumbling buildings. An additional $4 million in state brownfield grants has been earmarked for continued cleanup.
By Andreas Yilma Citizen's News
NAUGATUCK Juvenile crime reform dominated the discussion on Wednesday, April 13 when local legislators joined members of the borough's business community to talk politics over eggs and sausage.
The Naugatuck Chamber of Commerce's annual Legislative Breakfast
Trying to force the EPA to take quicker action by the agency’s PFAS Roadmap of 2021, a bill was introduced in the House that would require EPA Environmental Protection Agency to set air emission limits for all PFAS under the Clean Air Act.