Emma Cimino

Acting Commissioner, Connecticut Department of Energy and Environmental Protection (DEEP)

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MDC completes $138M pump station, unlocking Hartford's 41-million-gallon sewage tunnel

Supervising enforcement of the consent decree the tunnel helps satisfy

Since the mid-1990s, Hartford-area storms have pushed raw sewage into basements and down the Connecticut River. That ends next year, once MDC switches on a four-mile tunnel buried 200 feet underground that can store 41.5 million gallons of combined wastewater until the rain stops.

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