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The second leg of the Naugatuck River Greenway in Torrington opened with a ribbon-cutting celebration on Tuesday.  The newly-opened section in Torrington starts at the Sullivan Senior Center and ends at Scoville Street. This section was built with $351,373 in grant funding and city bonding.  The third section along Scoville Street should be completed next year.

Once completed, the Naugatuck River Greenway will be a 44-mile walking and biking trail from Torrington to Derby along the Naugatuck River.  Currently, there are open sections of greenway in Naugatuck, Beacon Falls, Seymour, Ansonia, and Derby, as well as Torrington, with more sections in design and pre-construction phases.

See our webpage for more information about the Naugatuck River Greenway.

Sustainable CT taps into the power of creating change at the local level. Guided by the vision set by Connecticut’s municipal leaders, over 200 people from local governments, non-profits, state agencies, businesses, academia, and our communities worked together to develop Sustainable CT. Each of Connecticut’s 169 cities and towns was represented in the creation of the program.

The Town of Woodbury has received Bronze Certification in 2019.  The City of Bristol achieved Bronze Certification in 2018.  The municipalities of Bethlehem, Naugatuck, Prospect, Seymour, and Thomaston have registered to participate in Sustainable CT, but have not reached certification as of yet.

If your community is not yet registered in Sustainable CT and you would like to learn more, contact them at info@sustainablect.org. They would love to discuss what Sustainable CT might look like in your city or town.

On Thursday, November 7, 2019, Governor Ned Lamont released the plan to update transportation features across the state.  This plan includes highway and transit projects in the Naugatuck Valley region:

• New rail cars and locomotives for the Waterbury Branch Line
• Accessible rail stations along with a digital fare system
• Traffic flow improvements in Seymour, Southbury, and Oxford.
• Bringing bridges into good condition on Route 8 and Interstate 84

Review all of the improvements to be made in the state and the plans for funding these projects in the Governor’s transportation plan on the CT2030 website.

The NVCOG Regional Wastewater Treatment Consolidation Study will provide a preliminary analysis to help determine the region’s ability to increase capacity for properly treating wastewater in a consolidated facility or facilities, thereby leading to a reduction in long-term state and local capital improvements and a reduction of user fees.

As the sponsoring agency, the Connecticut Department of Energy and Environmental Protection has published a scoping notice soliciting comments from other agencies and from the public as to the scope of alternatives and environmental impacts that should be considered for in the study’s Phase II.  The full scoping notice can be accessed here.

The Valley Community Foundation has released the 2019 Valley Community Index, a data resource on many topics from education to employment to health in seven Valley municipalities.  Non-profits, businesses, and residents of Ansonia, Beacon Falls, Derby, Naugatuck, Oxford, Seymour, and Shelton are encouraged to read this resource.

2019 Valley Community Index

NVCOG has created an interactive summary of the report, highlighting trends and popular data topics.

If you are a daily commuter through the Greater Waterbury area, the rehabilitation of the interchange between Interstate 84 and Route 8, locally known as the Mixmaster, has affected or will affect your life, one way or another.  Keep up to date with the Connecticut Department of Transportation’s website for the project, mixmaster-rehab.com, and subscribe to the project newsletter.