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Volume 17, Number 5

COVID cases continue to decline locally

Corroded water pipe results in $30K bill

Citizen report

The state’s latest COVID-19 report, which includes two weeks of data, showed 467 positive cases in North Haven, a marked drop from last month when local cases numbered 970 during one two-week span and 783 in another.

By Lauren Takores Record-Journal staff

WALLINGFORD — A corroded water pipe, located underground in Wharton Brook State Park, leaked 5.5 million gallons of water resulting in a bill of $30,000 that local officials decided to waive. The Public Utilities Commission voted unanimously Tuesday to follow the recommendation of Water and Sewer Divisions Manager Neil Amwake and credit the state Department of Energy and Environmental Protection all but $185 of the total bill, which had reached $30,241 — contingent

Friday, February 4, 2022

Despite a slowing rate of COVID-19 infections and hospitalizations statewide, health experts said that talk of turning the corner is premature. Mallard ducks gather in Allen Brook at Wharton Brook State Park. Dave Zajac, Record-Journal

upon the state improving the underground water meter pit. The Water Division services Wharton Brook State Park, providing water for park drink-

ing fountains. If the state doesn’t make the improvements within six months, the town plans to shut off service, Amwake said.

“It’s still too early to determine that,” said Dr. Ulysses Wu, chief epidemiologist & system director at Hartford HealthCare. “It has to move away from being widespread in all countries. I don’t know when, but eventually.” World governments, including the U.S., can

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CLIMATE CHANGE FORUM

Freda: ‘We’ve got to do everything we can’ to slow trend

Where things stand Take the guesswork out of your retire

By Nicole Zappone Special to The Citizen

Like many people, North Haven First Selectman Mike Freda is concerned about climate change and its impact on the planet. As a way to sound the alarm, in November 2021, Freda

teamed up with the North Haven Clean Energy Task Force to host a climate change forum.

Kenny Foscue, chairman of the eightmember task force, was one of the speakers. Also presenting was former DEEP commissioner Robert Klee,

from the Yale School of the Environment; and Mauro Diaz-Hernandez, of “Over the course of the past few years the Yale Center on Climate and here we have seen tornadoes, hurriHealth. said in Jeffrey Jolly, CFP® canes, major flooding,” Freda203.407.8188 x330 The climate change forum can be his opening remarks. “And in250 the last Financial Advisor & Senior Vice President State St, Unit E viewed via the municipal website.

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