Read Page: "Thirty years of state investment in cleaning up Connecticut's waterways is paying off. But we have a long way to go. The General Assembly and governor's office must return to financing clean-water progress before a shared dream of sewage-free rivers, streams and Long Island Sound fades away forever.
Few people realize that every year well over 1 billion gallons of raw sewage overflows from our sewers into the Connecticut River. We only notice when it backs up into our basements, and beaches, and when oyster beds are closed because of health threats from pathogens, or we find out we can't swim or fish in many streams, rivers and lakes in the watershed.
New Haven, Bridgeport and Norwalk harbors continue to suffer from an additional billion-gallon onslaught of raw sewage each year. The whole of Long Island Sound, and everyone who would like to use it, suffer."
