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During a sewer separation project in Hartford, Connecticut, workers add a second pipe in the street to serve as a sanitary sewer.
On your average sunny day in West Hartford, Connecticut, approximately 8 million gallons of water flows through the sanitary sewer system on its way to the state’s largest treatment plant — The Metropolitan District’s (The MDC) Hartford Treatment Plant.
It wasn’t unusual for...