Westport Minuteman - State downgrades shellfish beds off Westport shores: "Bacterial pollution has caused shellfish beds off Westport's shores to be downgraded by the state's Department of Agriculture Bureau of Aquaculture...
The Department of Environmental Protection, monitors large sewage treatment plants and Alicia Mozian, Westport's Director of Conservation, said the worsened water quality could come from those plants or, in times of heavy rain, from septic systems along the waters that empty into the Sound. Mozian said there was some speculation that the Bridgeport plant could be a source of pollution...."
