DRAFT 2008 TOWN PLAN TEXT
In 1996 the new Georgetown sanitary sewer system and treatment plant began
service to residents and businesses located on Old Mill Road, Main Street and small adjacent portions of Redding Road, Brookside Road and Portland Avenue.

The sewage treatment plant is located on a site at the south side of Redding Road adjacent to the railroad spur and is under lease from the developers of the former Gilbert and Bennett property. Redevelopment now underway of this G& B site, to create an urban village of mixed uses, will significantly expand the existing sewage treatment plant from its present capacity of 75,000 gallons per day to 245,000 gallons per day in order to serve the new village.

A modest surplus capacity is incorporated in the design of the new high-tech plant.

CT DEP SEWER PLANT APPROVAL 2005
DEP gave its tentative approval on July of 2005; "The previous permit and current treatment plant is permitted for 75,000 gallons per day. Construction of the expanded plant is expected to start by the fall of 2005 and be operational by the fall of 2006....

The new permitted flow will be increased from 75,000 to 245,000 gallons per day. The current facility is providing secondary treatment and the new facility will provide advanced treatment (biological treatment using Sequencing Batch Reactors, effluent equalization, nitrogen removal, filtration, and disinfection by Ultraviolet).

SEWER PLANT EXPANSION AUTHORIZED IN 2005
In May of 2005 the Redding Zoning Commission gave its approval to an expanded Georgetown sewer plant. The proposal from the Georgetown Land Development Company was as follows:

“The proposed plan of development will increase flows to the existing wastewater treatment plant (WTP) to approximately 245,000 gallons per day, necessitating a modification of the NPDES wastewater discharge permit and an expansion to the WTP. A Letter of Intent was signed in 1992 which called for the construction of the Georgetown WTP in three phases. Phase I was to handle the immediate needs of the Georgetown business area. Phase II was to handle the proposed life care facility at Gilbert Hill (Meadow Ridge).

Finally, the Phase III expansion was to handle the wastewater flows to be generated by the redevelopment of the Gilbert & Bennett property. The Planning Study for the WTP was approved by the Connecticut DEP on September 8, 1995.”

Continuing, “the Phase I WTP was constructed in 1995, capable of processing 17,000 gallons of wastewater per day. The Phase II expansion of the WTP, constructed in 2001, added capacity to the WTP of up to 75,000 gallons per day in order to handle the additional flows anticipated from the Meadow Ridge development. The Phase III expansion will, as noted, increase the waste water treatment capacity to at least 245,000 gallons per day.

Extensive studies of the Norwalk River flows (called “modeling”) have been done in order to determine the acceptable level of discharge from the WTP to the river. Recent modeling of the Norwalk River confirms earlier studies that found the Norwalk River capable of accommodating these levels of discharge from the WTP.

Although still a small treatment plant by most standards, the Phase III WTP will provide updated technology, and dramatically reduce the per capita cost of operating the plant which must be borne now by a relatively few number of users.”

COPY OF REDDING, CT 1998 PLAN OF
DEVELOPMENT TEXT CONCERNING SEWERS
The following text is drawn from the Redding Town plan of Conservation and Development which became effective in 1998: In 1996 the new Georgetown sanitary sewer system and treatment plant began service to residents and businesses located on Old Mill Road, Main Street and small adjacent portions of Redding Road, Brookside Road and Portland Avenue.

The sewage treatment plant is located on a .18 acre site at the south side of Redding Road adjacent to the railroad spur and is under a 50-year lease from the Gilbert & Bennett Company.

The plant, of "package design", treats wastewater to a tertiary-level of purification and has a present design capacity of 17,000 gallons per day. A planned major expansion of the treatment facility, at developer expense, is expected to begin construction in early 1999 to serve the Meadow Ridge Lifecare Community facility of 312 residential units plus nursing care.

Under a new 99-year lease agreement with Gilbert & Bennett, the treatment site will be expanded in area and a new modular addition constructed, increasing the plant's design capacity to approximately 75,000 gallons per day.

A provision in the Town's agreement with Gilbert & Bennett allows for eventual further expansion of the wastewater facility to serve a major redevelopment of the G&B mill site, projected to require a future total treatment capacity of 225,000 to 250,000 gallons per day for all users. All additions to the wastewater treatment facility will be required to meet State "Class B" water quality standards within the assimilative capacity of the Norwalk River. The system is administered by the Town's Water Pollution Control Commission, established in 1991.

UTILITY RECOMMENDATIONS 1. Continue to limit water service and public sewer service to central Georgetown. Expand sewage treatment plant, within State DEP water quality standards, only as essential to accommodate growth which is planned within the former Gilbert & Bennett site, the Meadow Ridge life-care community, the business center and immediately adjacent streets as determined necessary on a case by case basis by the Planning Commission.

REDDING, CT SEWER SERVICE HISTORY (UPDATED ONLY TO 1992)
In 1972, a Georgetown Sewer Study was completed by the firm Technical Planning Associates. In 1983, the Norwalk Regional Wastewater Facilities Plan was completed by Flaherty and Giavara Associates. In 1988, a sewerage study of the Georgetown area was completed by Lockwood, Kessler & Bartlett, Inc.

In 1990, a Fuss & O’Neill sewerage report was prepared for R.K. Health Services, developers of the proposed Gilbert Hill life-care facility. All of these reports have identified the key problem area to be served by sewers as a small portion of the Georgetown section of Redding, centered along Main Street.

The Redding Plan of Development has recently been amended to accommodate a large scale mixed-use residential-commercial development proposed for the Gilbert & Bennett industrial property, located in the Georgetown area, as well as for the development of the Gilbert Hill property located to the north on Route 107. The latter property has been approved for the development of a large scale life-care residential facility.

Both of these Georgetown developments are of such a scale and complexity that they would require sewer service. The approved plans for the Gilbert Hill life-care facility include providing sewage treatment capacity sufficient to accommodate all of the Town’s needs for the Georgetown service area. See the figure entitled Town of Redding Potential Sewer Service Areas A. B. C. D. and E.

The plans approved by the Town for the development of the life-care facility on Gilbert Hill included the development of a sewage treatment plant on the east side of Route 107, at the north end of Main Street. The treatment plant would have a capacity of 0.250, with 0.145 MGD reserved for the Gilbert and Bennett property, 0.065 MGD reserved for the Gilbert Hill life-care facility and the remaining capacity of 0.040 MGD would serve the property owners within the Georgetown service area.

The Gilbert and Bennett Company has CT DEP regulated permits to discharge up to 0.432 MGD of wastewater directly into the Norwalk River. The Town of Redding has a CT DEP permit to discharge up to 0.018 MGD into a tributary of the Saugatuck River, as a part of a groundwater contamination recovery effort. This is in response to an accidental leak from a Town owned fuel tank and is expected to cease when full site remediation is achieved within the next several years.