Company: MSEX
Filing Date: 2025-07-31
Form Type: 10-Q
Source: 0001174947-25-001119
Chunk: 80

Company: MIDDLESEX WATER CO
Filing Date: 2025-07-31
Form: 10-Q
Item: Item 8
Chunk 80
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 Delaware and New Jersey.

United States Environmental Protection Agency (USEPA)
Issues Final Perfluoroalkyl Substances (PFAS) Regulations - In April 2024, the USEPA finalized drinking water regulations for PFAS,
establishing maximum contaminant levels (MCLs) for three PFAS compounds (Regulated PFAS) that are lower than the current New Jersey Department
of Environmental Protection MCLs adhered to by the Company. Under the new USEPA regulations, effective April 2024, water systems must
monitor for Regulated PFAS and have three years to complete initial monitoring (by April 2027), followed by ongoing compliance monitoring.
Water systems must also provide the public with information on the levels of Regulated PFAS in their drinking water beginning in 2027.
Water systems have five years (by April 2029) to implement solutions that reduce Regulated PFAS if monitoring shows that drinking water
levels exceed these MCLs. The USEPA has announced its plans to issue a proposed rule in Fall
2025 extending the compliance date to 2031.

Beginning in April 2029 and absent an extension
by the USEPA, water systems that have Regulated PFAS in drinking water which exceeds one or more of these MCLs must take action to
reduce levels of these PFAS compounds in their drinking water and must provide notification to the public of the violation.

In anticipation of these new USEPA standards, in 2023,
the Company began, and continues, implementing its strategy to meet these lower MCLs for Regulated PFAS and is currently performing preliminary
engineering studies to ensure that effective PFAS treatment approaches are implemented.

Capital
Construction Program - The Company’s
multi-year capital construction program encompasses numerous projects designed to upgrade and replace utility infrastructure as well as
enhance the integrity and reliability of assets to maintain and improve service for the current and future generations of water and wastewater

customers. The Company plans
to invest approximately $93 million in 2025 in connection with this plan for projects that include, but are not limited to:

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    Replacement of 19,550 linear feet of cast iron main in Woodbridge Township in our Middlesex System;
  
    ·
    Construction of new elevated water tanks in Delaware; and
  
    ·
    Various water main replacements and improvements.

The actual amount and timing of capital expenditures
is dependent on project scheduling and refinement of engineering estimates for certain capital projects.

Outlook

Our ability to increase operating income