News Times Live Clean Water Fund may get cash boost to clean river pollution
Cash may refresh the state’s Clean Water Fund, and, in turn, clear some of the sewage and pollution out of the state’s rivers and the Long Island Sound.
The General Assembly Finance, Revenue and Bonding Committee is recommending that the state Bonding Commission issue $220 million in general obligation bonds over the next two years for the Clean Water Fund, which by 2005 was defunded entirely.
In 2006 and 2007, the state added $20 million a year to the fund – less than half of what it’s received in the past.
"This is huge,’’ said Leah Schmalz, director of legislative affairs for Save the Sound, which is part of the Connecticut Fund for the Environment. "It’s a tremendous advance. ...’’
