Patricia Dillon

I’m writing before the weekend to alert you to a sewage overflow in to New Haven rivers that could affect your health. We have experienced heavy rains and as you may know sewers on the west side have not been separated. 

Notifications of sewage discharges help the public avoid boating, fishing or swimming in waterbodies that may contain illness causing bacteria.  It does not take much rain to make a combined sewer system overflow.  Never recreate next to sign indicating that a combined sewer is nearby, especially during a storm.  For more information on combined sewers in CT, please visit Combined Sewer Overflows Right to Know. 

I have reached out to CT DEEP and they shared the following resources:

Information About On-going or Recent CSOs

• New Haven WPCA - Combined Sewer Overflows Information
• CT DEEP - Sewer Overflow Dashboard contains "real-time" sewage bypass information for the state of Connecticut.  Check it out before recreating in the waters of the state.  The map has a query function with the ability to export information.
• Sign up for notifications & learn more here: https://portal.ct.gov/deep/municipal-wastewater/ct-sewage-right-to-know
• To receive a general alert regarding the occurrence of combined sewer overflows in CT, sign up with DEEP’s X feed:  CTSewerOverflows (@CTSewageSpills).  To learn more specific information about a CSO and its location, refer to information on DEEP’s webpage at: Bypass and CSO Events Public Viewer (arcgis.com).

Sincerely,

Patricia Dillon