Aquarion is investing $2.4 billion in its pipes. How does that make you feel about your tap water today?
The utility's own modernization plan is the clearest confirmation yet of the story we tell every day: water travels a long way, through aging pipe, before it reaches your home.
This summer the newly formed Aquarion Water Authority acquired Aquarion from Eversource and announced a $2.4 billion capital raise via a bond sale, the largest in the state's history.
If you live in Greenwich, Darien, Westport, Stamford, or one of the roughly sixty towns Aquarion serves, this affects YOU
Aquarion is a serious utility doing serious work, and a large, long-term investment is a good thing. What is worth noticing is where the money is expected to go. The authority plans to spend that $2.4 billion between 2026 and 2036 to replace more than 150 miles of pipe, modernize treatment plants, and meet new federal rules on PFAS, the "forever chemicals" the EPA regulated for the first time in over twenty-five years.
More than 150 miles of pipe, old enough to be worth replacing, carrying water across the county today! Our own utility is explaining why the water leaving a treatment plant is not the water that reaches your kitchen.
A whole-home system treats every faucet, shower, and appliance in the house, once, so you stop thinking about it, whatever the pipes upstream do next. If you want to know what your own water looks like at the end of that trip, that is what a home water assessment is for. We come out, we look, we show you what we find next to both the federal limit and the stricter health-based guideline, and you decide.
ONE SYSTEM. WHOLE HOME. TOTAL PEACE OF MIND
Source: Hartford Business Journal