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The Town of Branford
owns and operates a Water Pollution Control Facility located
on Block Island Road, Branford, CT. The facility collects
sewage from approximately I 00 miles of sewers and 49 pump
stations in Branford as well as sewage from a portion of
North Branford. The Town of Branford Sewer Authority
oversees the construction and extension of the sewerage
system and has the authority to enact user charges and
assessment fees to owners benefiting from the system. The
Water Pollution Control Department provides the daily
operations and maintenance to the system. The system serves
approximately 90% of existing commercial and industrial
areas of Town and almost 85% of the residences.
The system was originally constructed in 1961 and provided
secondary treatment for 1.5 MGD offlow. In 1982 the system was
expanded and upgraded to treat 4.5 MGD of flow utilizing an
oxygen generator to provide secondary treatment and anaerobic
digestion for solids reduction. Treated effluent from the
plant flows into Branford Harbor and ultimately Long Island
Sound. On January 13, 2000, a thirty-month construction
project began on the new treatment facility. The projected
cost totaled $26,000,000, funded through a combination of
State of Connecticut Clean Water Fund grants and 2% loans.
With its completion, the facility now has the capacity to
treat 4.9 MGD of flow and provide biological nitrogen removal
with an effluent limit of 4mg/i of total nitrogen.
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