The city has come one step closer to joining the Mattabassett sewer district after the district's board of directors this week agreed to accept Middletown.
The city has been working for more than two decades to address problems with its aging sewer treatment on the Connecticut River and joining the regional sewer district was a lynchpin in its plans to shut down the sewer plant.
The Mattabassett board earlier this week approved a change in its charter to allow Middletown to join the district, the Hartford Courant reports. That change now must be appoved by the other towns in the district, New Britain, Berlin and Cromwell, before Middletown can join.
Middletown voters last year approved spending $37 million to install a pipeline along Route 9 connecting sewer lines here to the district's plant in Cromwell. Under the plan, the city would demolish its outdated treatment plant on River Road
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