Plans for Massive Data Center Linked to Nuclear Power Spark Debate on Connecticut’s Energy Future
Francisco Uranga
Thomas Quinn wants to build a hyperscale data center — what
would be the single largest user of electricity in Connecticut — next to the
Millstone Nuclear Power plant in Waterford.
The center would use more than 9% of the average power
consumption in the state, enough to raise concerns among state lawmakers about
the stability of the grid and serious questions about whether it’s the best use
for electricity as the state transitions away from carbon-based energy.
A few weeks ago, Quinn, president of NE Edge, and his partners Christopher
Regan and William DiBella spoke with CT Examiner about the project. Regan, like
Quinn, is a real estate developer. In the 1990s, DiBella, a Democrat, served as
the State Senate Majority Leader before leaving elected politics and becoming a
lobbyist. None of the partners have prior experience with data center or
technology projects, but Quinn was clear that the partners don’t plan to
develop the project on their own.
“This is a big project. You have to bring in institutional
money to do this,” Quinn said. “We have somebody lined up. It’s a very large
company, multinational. We would be joint venture partners, but we wouldn’t run
any of it. Once the big guys come in, they basically run the show.”
Quinn declined to provide further details about prospective
outside investors or partners, but according to industry experts who spoke with
CT Examiner on the condition of anonymity, most projects of this scale are
operated by companies like Microsoft, Google, Amazon or Meta.
According to figures provided by NE Edge, the project would
require a $1.6 billion in investment and would consume 300 megawatts of power
once operating — the size of the largest-scale, next-generation data centers
used for high-density AI computing.
Given that Connecticut has some of the highest energy rates
in the country, an agreement with Dominion Energy to connect the
data center directly to the Millstone reactors is critical to NE Edge. Quinn
called this “behind the meter,” meaning the developers wouldn’t pay the same
charges levied on users of the electrical grid. But according to Quinn, NE Edge
is offering to contribute $1 billion over 30 years to the state’s Renewables
and Energy Assistance Programs in lieu of those charges.
According to Quinn, the deal would benefit Connecticut
because much of the power potentially used to power the data center is
currently sent out of state and not subject to those fees.
NE Edge has also offered to make an additional $1,440,000
annual payment to the state’s Energy Assistance Program, with a 2.5% annual
escalator, and offer data storage services to the state at a 27.5% discount.
None of those contributions are yet part of any written
agreement, but they were outlined by Quinn at a public hearing in March and are
explained in a fact sheet provided to CT Examiner by the NE Edge.
Quinn later said that these figures were proposed in writing
in a meeting with Gov. Ned Lamont and would be formalized once the approval
processes are concluded.
Locking in power
In an effort to prevent Dominion from closing Millstone,
Connecticut agreed in
2019 to a 10-year purchase price for more than 50% of the energy produced at
the plant
According to a Dominion spokesperson, the company is
discussing a lease and a separate power agreement with NE Edge.
Quinn explained that his company is negotiating with
Dominion to buy power currently sold on the open market, but declined to
elaborate except to say that the price will be higher than in the 2019
agreement.
Jay Dietrich, research director on sustainability at Uptime
Institute, told CT Examiner that an agreement between Dominion and NE Edge
could be beneficial for the operation of the plant, given the stable demand
promised by the center.
Dietrich said the main risk for nuclear power plants is
being priced out of the market by cheaper sources of energy. The
Millstone plant closure itself was on the table until the 2019 purchase
agreement improved prospects.
“A data center locking up 300 megawatts of power will
actually help keep the nuclear plant open, which will help grid stability,”
Dietrich said. “And having that nuclear plant will reduce price volatility.”
Legislators move toward a study
The extraordinary scale of the energy required for the NE
Edge project has prompted the state Legislature’s Energy and Technology
Committee to approve legislation requiring
a study of the impact on the grid. That report could be finished by July 1.
NE Edge opposed the study, which has yet to receive a vote
from the entire State Senate and House, calling it a waste of taxpayer money.
Quinn labeled the study an “opinion report” and said it may delay their project
and result in a missed opportunity. Quinn argued that the data from ISO-New
England, the organization managing New England’s electrical grid, showed more
than enough capacity to supply the project, even during summertime peak demand.
“Missed opportunity for who?” replied State Rep. Aundré Bumgardner, D-Groton, a
co-sponsor of the bill, later told CT Examiner.. “Lost opportunity for Google,
for Microsoft? The beneficiaries are the world’s wealthiest corporations and
their mega-billionaire owners.”
Bumgardner said data centers should be treated the same as
any other industry in the state.
Tax incentives
The industry has benefited from tax incentives approved in
2021 as emergency legislation, without committee discussion or public hearings,
in response to an alleged opportunity to attract millions of dollars of
investment to the state.
At the same time, New Jersey lawmakers were debating a
$0.0025 tax on each electronically processed financial transaction. Connecticut
weighed the possibility that some of the Wall Street-related data center
infrastructure could be moved to the state, but New Jersey eventually dropped
the tax idea.
The tax incentives remained, however, making Connecticut the
only state in New England offering incentives for data centers; more than 30
states across the country have some type of incentive for the sector.
Under current rules,
developers in Connecticut can apply for a 20-year sales and property tax
exemption on data center projects with at least $200 million in investment, or
$50 million if the center is built in a state-designated enterprise zone. The
benefit can be extended to 30 years if the investment reaches $400 million, or
$200 million in an enterprise zone.
The centers would also be exempt from local taxes, but towns
would be allowed to negotiate fees as part of a host municipality agreement.
Only one data center, developed by Cigna, has benefited from
the legislation so far, according to the state Department of Economic and
Community Development. The Waterford data center could be the second.
Picking winners?
The Lamont administration has split, markedly, in its
attitudes toward the data center industry and proposed study.
Facing criticism that the government was picking winners and
losers, DECD communications director Jim Watson said in a written statement
that there were also incentives for other industries, and that the agency
considers data centers a “backbone for growth in both established industries as
well as rapidly emerging tech sectors.”
Daniel O’Keefe, commissioner of DECD, criticized the
proposed study, suggesting instead that legislators consider how to support
data centers to take advantage of the “economic benefits they enable.”
In contrast, DEEP Commissioner Katie Dykes endorsed the
study, but presented it as a way to encourage the construction of new data
centers in the state.
“We see it as an enhancement to ensure that there is a clear
path to be able to attract data center load in our state,” she said. “We don’t
want to be unprepared, and we want to make sure that we are informed about ways
to integrate this kind of load in a way that is reliable.”
The larger question
Underlying the data center controversy in Waterford are
larger, global questions: Should the government incentivize these massive
power-consuming projects? As Connecticut tries to refocus its energy
infrastructure toward net-zero carbon by 2040, are data centers the smartest
way of using green energy?
Not long ago, data centers were seen as an opportunity to
raise revenues and create jobs, but more experts and government officials have
been questioning the benefits and shifting focus to its impact.
In northern Europe, for example, there has been a
reevaluation of whether the tax breaks given to data centers were wise policy,
said Alex de Vries, a Dutch data scientist who founded Digiconomist, the
research firm that created the Bitcoin Energy Consumption Index.
Among the countries that have reconsidered incentives is
Sweden, which eliminated tax exemptions last year. Opposition to data centers
is also growing in the Netherlands, where Meta suspended a project in 2022 due
to political opposition over its high energy consumption.
According to his
paper on artificial intelligence electricity consumption, Vries estimated
that by 2027 the industry as a whole would require as much energy as the
Netherlands.
“These facilities don’t create the number of jobs advertised
and don’t pay that much taxes,” Vries said. “This is starting to be considered
an opportunity cost. You don’t get extra business because you don’t need to be
near a data center, and it consumes a massive amount of power that could be
used for industries that are a growth engine for your local community.”
What’s in it for Waterford
NE Edge developers say the Waterford project would hire as
many as 1,500 workers during construction, 190 permanent employees when
operating, and 300 temporary personnel every three years for a year of
refitting.
The figures are a small fraction of Connecticut’s labor
market, however, compared to the amount of electricity the facility would
consume.
Among the main supporters of the data center are
construction unions and town officials who expect to raise millions of dollars
from the project. NE Edge would be the second largest contributor to
Waterford’s public coffers behind Dominion.
Waterford signed a
host municipality fee agreement with NE Edge last year, committing the
company to pay $231 million over 30 years in lieu of taxes.
After signing the agreement, Waterford First Selectman
Robert Brule touted the benefits to the local community.
“This revenue will serve as a cushion to help us ease the
tax burden for our property owners and help fund critical fire, police, school,
public works, recreation and other human services our town relies upon,” Brule
told The Day.
A group of Waterford neighbors, however, are determined to
stop the project.
Resident Bryan Sayles, 63, said he first heard about the
data center when he read a letter to the editor in the local newspaper in March
2023. By then, months had passed since the town’s first selectmen voted on the
agreement with NE Edge.
After a few more months without any updates, Sayles decided
to organize a meeting with locals to gather additional information.. Thus was
born the Concerned Citizens of Waterford and East Lyme, which divided into
working groups to tackle what it claims are issues with the project.
Sayles said he spent months researching energy security and
concluded that the data center would drive up the wholesale price of energy. He
also raised doubts regarding who the real project investors are, as well as
noise concerns. His biggest criticisms, however, are what he considers a lack
of transparency from local representatives, Dominion and the developer.
“Dominion is not acting as a good neighbor,” he said. “I’m
fine with nuclear power, but the senior leaders in the company lack any empathy
toward neighbors and the town, as we expressed our concerns.”
Prior to the Waterford project, NE Edge proposed building a
data center in Groton, drawn by the lower electricity rates offered by the
town’s municipal utility. But neighbors objected due to noise concerns, and
Groton’s Town Council ultimately voted
against the NE Edge agreement.
Quinn and his partners learned from that experience.
The Waterford proposal eliminates the main sources of noise:
backup diesel generators and the cooling system. Being directly connected to
the nuclear reactors, the data center plans to use the grid as a backup,
avoiding internal combustion engines. The cooling, according to NE Edge, would
be accomplished with a closed air conditioning system, evacuating heat through
fans on the roof.
Quinn claims that the facility would be designed to minimize
noise and meet a state-mandated 54-decibel limit, and that water demand would
be limited to staff consumption and would not be used to cool servers.
Independent experts in the industry who spoke with CT Examiner confirmed that
there are engineering solutions to meet these requirements, although it would
depend on the building design. NE Edge plans to complete a sound study in the
next five months to obtain a building permit; once completed, the company can
apply to DECD for a tax exemption.
Waterford residents opposed to the data center received some
good news in January when the Siting Council rejected
Dominion’s request to change the boundaries of the Millstone nuclear
power plant site, a necessary step to build the data center. The council
justified the denial based on concerns about the impact on the environment and
energy supply, saying it needed more time and information to assess them. The
decision was made without prejudice, which means Dominion can resubmit the
application.
Quinn and his partners considered the denial unjustified,
but said they are confident that the council will eventually approve the
application.
The Siting Council’s decision was celebrated by Sayles, who
took it as a sign that neighbors’ concerns were being heard.
“I don’t think our pressure is going to matter to Dominion
or our first selectman. They are indifferent,” he said. “But we are
hoping that the legal system, the state laws, will stop them.”
Contractors showing ‘robust’ interest in New London’s Coast Guard Museum
John Penney
New London ― More than two dozen contractors hoping to take
part in the construction of the National U.S. Coast Guard Museum attended a
“robust” bid opening event earlier this month, museum association leaders said
Monday.
“We had contractors there representing nine trades,
including those specializing in subterranean work and steel, along with those
that provide emergency generators for these types of buildings,” said Wes
Pulver, association president and a retired Coast Guard captain. “Those
companies represented about 50% of the overall construction work we plan.”
Pulver said 70% of the project’s anticipated $150 million
price tag ― which includes the creation of a pedestrian bridge projected to
connect the downtown museum to the Water Street garage and building finishing
work ― will be dedicated to construction of the main museum building.
The April 3 bid opening at the Garde Arts Center will now be
followed by a second submission round on April 17 in which a small number of
contractors – mainly those who handle wall-related work ― are slated to submit
their bids, Pulver said.
Bids for construction of the 89,000-square-foot, six-story
museum building and its associated interior systems were requested in late February by North Stonington-based A/Z Corp.,
which is overseeing the work.
The scope of the work at 1790 Waterfront Drive includes
concrete foundation, skeletal steel and flooring, as well as exterior metal
panel, glass curtain wall and roofing components. Companies are also invited to
bid on elevator, fireproofing, plumbing and electrical work.
The project is being handled through a phased construction
approach that began with site preparation behind Union Station about 20 months
ago and is continuing with the installation of roughly 240 micropiles on which
the museum will sit.
Bids for construction of the main museum building are
expected to be awarded within 90 days, Pulver said. He said the association is
holding off on releasing prospective bid figures for now.
“We want to make sure the bidders understand the full scope
of the project first,” he said. “But those numbers are coming in similar to our
cost estimates.”
The project is being funded through a combination of
federal, state and donated funds. Approximately 6,000 donors so far have
contributed $46 million in private money toward a $50 million capital campaign.
The walking bridge and interior museum finishing work
portions of the project will be bid out separately later this year in the hopes
of awarding those contracts by early summer.
A project timeline calls for the museum building to be
completed in 2025 before being turned over to Coast Guard officials who will
set an official opening date.
The bridge will likely not be completed until 2026.
Museum boosters, including city officials, are touting the
facility as a tourism generator estimated to bring 300,000 annual visitors to
the region along with up to $20 million in associated tourism revenue.
Groundbreaking held for South Norwalk School; will end decades of educational inequity for students
Kalleen
Rose Ozanic, Katherine
Lutge,
NORWALK — Construction has officially begun at what will
become the first
school in the South Norwalk neighborhood in over 40 years, mending a
long overdue inequity for local students.
For decades, South Norwalk students, such as fifth grader
Lincoln Almonte Martinez, have spent time riding buses to different schools
across the city.
“While I have enjoyed my years at Marvin, I like my
principal, teachers and the amazing friends I made, I think about how things
would have been different if I didn’t have to ride a bus across town and
instead could have spent time attending school in my own neighborhood,” Lincoln
said.
The new state-of-the-art
school will fill a whole in the South Norwalk community that has
existed since the late 1970s, when Norwalk Public Schools shuttered
Nathaniel Ely School on Ingalls Avenue as part of desegregation efforts, a
joint statement from the NPS and the city of Norwalk said.
Local and state officials welcomed the project at a
ceremonial groundbreaking Monday, emphasizing the positive impacts that will
come from the new South
Norwalk Elementary School.
“The young students in South Norwalk, the young scholars,
have not had a neighborhood school and not having the neighborhood school is a
tremendous hindrance,” Mayor Harry Rilling said.
“What a day, not only do we have an eclipse, in many
traditions eclipses are seen as an opportunity for change, and Norwalk is in
the beginning of transformational change for South Norwalk,” said Alexandra
Estrella, superintendent of Norwalk Public Schools.
The South Norwalk School groundbreaking came one week after
local and state officials, including Gov. Ned Lamont, celebrated construction
on the district’s concurrent construction project: the new Norwalk
High School.
Lt. Gov. Susan Bysiewicz joined Norwalk state and local
leaders in celebrating the “historic day,” with the groundbreaking at the South
Norwalk School site.
“We know that partnerships between our state and our local
governments have the power to transform communities, and we’re so proud to be
part of the celebration of a $46 million investment in the future of Norwalk,
in the incredible students who will have the opportunity shortly to attend this
neighborhood school,” Bysiewicz said.
The $78 million project has a state reimbursement rate of 60
percent — putting a $31.2 million burden on the city and its taxpayers. Rilling
credited the 60 percent reimbursement rate to the hard work of Senate Majority
Leader Bob Duff and the other Norwalk representatives to the state General
Assembly.
“This new reimbursement formula is going to save the city of
Norwalk about $29 million, having a 60 percent reimbursement versus a 22.5
percent reimbursement, which allows the city to do other priorities and meet
like flooding,” Duff said.
Last fall, Norwalk’s Common Council approved $4.9 million
for property acquisitions for the school and road and flood improvements in the
area.
Of that nearly $5 million, $2.9 million came from the
Jefferson Marine Science Elementary School improvement project capital budget
to purchase six properties adjoining the South Norwalk School parcel. The
other $2
million goes to road and flood improvements near and on the school’s
property.
With construction underway, the district looks to welcome
students in the fall of 2025, according to the NPS
construction website.
The new school is seen as a new anchor for the community,
said Common Council President Darlene Young, who represents South Norwalk.
“We all know schools and neighborhoods create community and
that’s what you need,” Young said. “We were missing that for a very, very long
time — decades.”
When open, the school
will accommodate a maximum of 682 students. In its initial year, the
school will serve pre-kindergarten through third grade students.
“I think Norwalk needs to understand how much this means to
the minority community, to see the commitment of a city that cares about the
people of the city, that they would invest into a school in the community that
our students can be able to have less time traveling and more time being
educated,” said the Rev. Roosevelt Ewell, senior pastor of Canaan
Institutional Baptist Church of Norwalk. “This project, this movement, have
come about from the hard labor of so many in the minority community.”
With the 11.7-acre parcel at 1 Meadow
St. Ext., Tecton Architects aims to create an educational environment
with “breakout
rooms” for small-group learning, bigger spaces such as a media breakout
room, media room, gym, and multipurpose room for larger groups as well as
physical and occupational therapy spaces.
The city acquired
the former Hatch & Bailey Co. property in 2022 for the new
school.
The plans for the three-story building also make use of the
roof as open-air educational space.
New Haven gets $9.3 million to help connect trails from Hammonassett to Massachusetts
NEW HAVEN — Imagine riding your bike — or even walking — all
the way from Hammonasset State Park in Madison through New Haven and clear
upstate to Northampton, Mass., without having to contend much with vehicular
traffic.
The city of
New Haven is well on its way to completing a design that will connect the
still-unfinished New Haven stretch of the 84-mile Farmington
Canal Heritage Trail to the 25 miles of the Shoreline
Greenway that could make this trek a reality.
The 4.4 mile link, which
includes the long-awaited New Haven stretch of the Shoreline Greenway,
is even longer than the city's 3.3-mile stretch of the Farmington Canal Trail,
which is part of the East
Coast Greenway.
But it's got one big hurdle already conquered.
Money is in place.
The city has secured $9.3 million, including $7 million in
federal funds and $2.3 million in state bond funds, to pay for it, City
Engineer Giovanni Zinn said.
"This is a very exciting project," Zinn
said during
a recent online presentation. "It's many, many years in the
making."
He called it "an opportunity to create something very
special here in the East Shore that connects these two great regional
assets."
He said the regional connections are helping to attract
those funds.
"This is the trunk line, if you will, that provides
the intermunicipal connectability," Zinn said.
Zinn, who is charged with making it happen, aims to complete
the design and any necessary permitting in 2024 and put it out to bid in 2025.
He estimated that construction would take 18 months to two years.
As a resident of the East Shore, he's looking forward to
taking his children to use it when it's done.
And he has plans beyond that to link it all to Lighthouse
Point Park, a trail through the city to Westville and via Long Wharf to
West Haven's shoreline walkway, which currently ends near Sandy Point on the
West Haven side of New Haven Harbor.
The exact route to Lighthouse Point is still being worked
out, he said.
"This is a fairly ambitious plan," Zinn told
members of the Board of Alders' City Services and Environmental Policy
Committee Thursday night, adding "the route has been very
challenging."
He said they're looking for ways to connect the trail to
West Haven.
"These projects don't happen overnight," he said.
The committee voted unanimously to recommend that the full
Board of Alders approve accepting the funds.
Zinn and has staff have been working on a route that will connect with the
Farmington Canal Trail near the Canal Dock Boathouse and wind east along Long
Wharf Drive and East Street to Water Street.
There, it will go over the Tomlinson Bridge, then head
down through the Port of New Haven area to East Shore Park, then along Woodward
Avenue past the Water Pollution Control Authority and the U.S. Coast Guard
station to Fort Hale Park, where it will have to cross Townsend Avenue, Zinn
said.
From there it will work its way over to skirt along Burr
Street and Dean Street, through a stretch of Tweed New Haven Regional Airport
property into East Haven, where it will eventually link up with the
existing Shoreline Greenway, he said.
"We're building a network across the
city," Zinn said. "If you live in the southern part of the Hill,
connect through Long Wharf. If you're in Dixwell, connect through the
Farmington Canal."
Additional links, such as Lighthouse Point, would require
additional funding, Zinn said.
"We try to minimize land impacts, (but) were able to
find a way to thread the needle," Zinn said.
The plan, including the route, is not yet finished and is
still being tweaked in response to feedback from members of the public, he
said.
The public — some members of which have been trying to make
the project or one like it happen since the 1990s or earlier — is pretty
excited about it.
But people also have questions and concerns.
"The route that Giovanni laid out did not connect to
Lighthouse. It connects to the airport," said Chris Ozyck, a community and
environmental activist who also happens to be associate director for the Urban
Resources Initiative at Yale.
He's aware that Zinn and the city have plans to
eventually build a spur to Lighthouse Point but said that
connecting Hammonasset to Lighthouse has always been a goal of the
Shoreline Greenway.
"In general, I think it's awesome,"
said Ozyck, who began working on the Farmington Canal Trail as a
University of Connecticut undergrad around 1988. "My main concern has
always been making sure that the route goes through the port area."
Ozyck said that while there are a few places where people
would have to cross vehicular traffic, it would be relatively unimpeded.
"Some people will use it for commuting, which is
fantastic," Ozyck said. "Some people will use it for exercise
and pleasure, which is also fantastic. It will be a tourist drive ... I think
those are economic drivers. I just want it to really be
first-rate."
Aaron Goode, a member of Friends of the Farmington
Canal and the New Haven Bioregional Group who spoke to the Board of Alders
committee Thursday night, said he has been advocating for some version of the
Greenway since 2007.
But the idea for an interconnected, interlocking set
of greenways goes back to 1910, he said.
"It was a good idea in 1910 and its still a good idea
today," he said.
Doug Hausladen, executive director of Park New Haven
and a member of the Shoreline Greenway Trail organization, spoke to the alders
along with Matthew Lieber, a New Haven native and East Haven resident who is
vice-chair of the Shoreline Greenway Trail.
"We're excited about the possibility of the
Shoreline Greenway Trail extending through New Haven," said
Hausladen.
Lieber said the vision it to connect Hammonassett with
Lighthouse Point Park.
"We're looking forward to partnering with New Haven and
having a New Haven volunteer team," he said.
Zinn said the Greenway trail would look similar to the
Farmington Canal Trail through New Haven.
"It's really exciting," said Beaver Hills Alder
Tom Ficklin Jr., D-28. "Hearing this word, interconnectivity, excites
me."
Mayor Justin Elicker, speaking during the Feb. 29
presentation, called it "a really exciting project to someone that bikes,
walks and drives around the city."
Elicker said the state and federal funds are what are
enabling the project to finally happen, thanking state and federal officials.
Zinn said he thinks it can bring value to the
neighborhoods it runs through.
"People want to live near these things," Zinn
said.
Wilton gets federal funds to replace bridge that's been closed for years on Sugar Hollow Road
WILTON — A project to replace a bridge that has
been closed to traffic for many years has received federal funding,
according to First Selectman Toni Boucher.
The bridge
carries Sugar Hollow Road over the Norwalk River in the Georgetown section of
northern Wilton near the Ridgefield border. The federal funds were released
under the Federal Local Bridge Program, administered by the Connecticut
Department of Transportation.
Preliminary design work is expected to begin this spring,
with construction likely starting in 2028, Boucher said in a statement.
The 28-foot-long bridge, which is over
90 years old, was reduced to one-lane traffic in December 2017 after it was
found to be deteriorating and in need of repairs by the DOT. The bridge had
been rated “poor” since 2002. An inspection in 2016 found that the bridge’s
exterior beams were deteriorating, and there were missing sections of the
bridge’s rebar, which is used to reinforce the bridge.
In February 2018, the bridge was closed by the DOT until the needed repairs could be made. The analysis indicated that even with the reduction to one lane, "the bridge should be closed” for safety, then-First Selectman Lynne Vanderslice said at the time.
According to a DOT
database of bridge repair projects, the Sugar Hollow Road bridge in Wilton
is due to receive $480,000 in federal funds this year, $100,000 in 2025 and
$2.43 million in 2026.
The town will receive at least 80 percent reimbursement from
federal aid for all three phases of the project — design, rights-of-way and
construction — with the remaining funds from the state to cover 100 percent of
the costs associated with the bridge replacement. The total estimated cost of
the project is $2.92 million, said Thomas Reese, civil engineer with the
Department of Public Works.
The federal aid for the project was authorized under the
Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act, or IIJA, which is administered by
the Federal Highway Administration and the Connecticut Department of
Transportation.
Local and state policy encourages the release of early
information on such projects and encourages residents to raise any concerns
with municipal officials early in the planning process, Boucher said.
Anyone wanting additional information on the project should contact Reese
at the town Department of Public Works at 203-563-0152 or by email at
Thomas.reese@wiltonct.org.