“Sole Source”, a film about Newtown’s water and aquifer, will be shown at the Booth Library on Friday night. The name of the film refers to Newtown’s unique aquifer system that is able to produce drinking water for the entire town. James Belden, president and co-founder of the Pootatuck Watershed Association and resident of Newtown
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Amid the calm of the deep, blue swirling walkways of the Maritime Aquarium, beacons of light flash out to light the way. Residents in Danbury, Newtown and Bethel entered their homemade creations in the Norwalk Maritime Aquarium’s 2011 Festival of Lighthouses. For more on this story, visit: Local Residents Create Working Models for Lighthouse Competition
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A proposal in the works for months to partially run Newtown’s wastewater treatment plant on solar energy must receive a wetlands permit before construction can proceed. The Inland Wetlands Commission is scheduled to officially accept the application Tuesday morning. For more on this story, visit: Solar Proposal for Sewer Plant Heads to Wetlands – Newtown,
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NEWTOWN — One of Newtown First Selectman Pat Llodra’s biggest goals this year is to arouse public interest in the Plan of Conservation and Development that the town is in the process of overhauling. via Newtown conservation: the time to act is now – Connecticut Post.
Newtown officials worry a private water company’s plan to supply a neighborhood in Brookfield may drain the town’s sole water source, but the company says it is legally allowed to do so and will not revise its plan.
