CONNECT WITH DANBURY INTRO - CONNECT TO CENTRAL BETHEL
TO NORTHERN BETHEL - TO SOUTH BROOKFIELD - DANBURY'S INTERNAL NEEDS
TO NEW FAIRFIELD - TO SOUTH NEW MILFORD - TO NEWTOWN - TO RIDGEFIELD

According to the 2001 Brookfield Plan of Conservation and Development "Brookfield needs a coordinated overall public water supply system since the current system in Brookfield is poorly configured to meet community needs."

Continuing, "The key water supply issue is the lack of an overall water system in the community and the dispersed nature of water supply providers. Water quality is also a continuing issue."

While the 2001 Brookfield Plan is silent as to a supply source, the regional plan adopted by HVCEO and the state plan adopted by the Connecticut General Assembly clearly authorize the option of expansion and coordination of water mains along Danbury and Brookfield’s shared border area and Routes 7 and 202 corridors.

The water supply planning concept of long standing for the Town of Brookfield envisions the Federal Road water main in Danbury extending northerly in the Route 7 and Federal Road corridor, serving all of central Brookfield, and then interconnecting with the United Water Company system in New Milford.

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This concept would obviously serve the complete length of central Brookfield, but would also allow for emergency supply connections between the United Water Company system in New Milford, the Brookfield Water Company (BWC) serving northern Brookfield, and the Danbury Water Department in Danbury to the south.

Estimates of future water needs of Brookfield’s central commercial and industrial corridor were roughly estimated by this study by assuming water service to a 3,000 foot wide strip along Federal Road with full development under existing zoning. The total need derived from this calculation is in the range of 0.5 MGD to 1.0 MGD.

In northern Brookfield, the BWC System operates off a hydropneumatic (small pressure) tank that does not provide fire protection. Atmospheric (large non-pressure) tanks would be required in Brookfield, possibly one in the north and one in the south, to provide adequate storage for fire protection. The storage tanks in both Danbury and New Milford are too far away to provide adequate fire protection. The cost of the storage tanks would range from $500,000 to $1,000,000 each.

The Danbury Low Service Area, which includes Danbury's portion of the Federal Road Corridor, would require a pressure reducing valve before interconnecting north to the BWC system, which has an HGL of 403.

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NEW FAIRFIELD NEW MILFORD NEWTOWN REDDING RIDGEFIELD SHERMAN