The Connecticut Post Online - Clean water needs: "Clean water needs
Connecticut needs to rededicate itself to cleaning up our rivers and our precious natural resource of Long Island Sound.
State lawmakers can mightily aid this cause — and a goodly number of the communities they represent — by boosting bonding for the state's Clean Water Fund that aids municipalities with grants and low-cost loans.
Clean Water Fund grants and loans aid municipal and regional projects such as wastewater treatment plant upgrades, combined sewer separation work and nitrogen reduction programs. Those projects assure cleaner drinking water, less sewage in our rivers and harbors and a healthier Long Island Sound, both for aquaculture and recreation.
The irony is that while such projects benefit the vast majority of residents and provide for a cleaner environment for us all, the state during the past decade has been miserly in approving increased bonding for the fund."
