Company: MSEX
Filing Date: 2025-05-01
Form Type: 10-Q
Source: 0001174947-25-000677
Chunk: 81

Company: MIDDLESEX WATER CO
Filing Date: 2025-05-01
Form: 10-Q
Item: Item 2
Chunk 81
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 provide regulated wastewater services in New Jersey. We are regulated by state public utility commissions
as to rates charged to customers for water and wastewater services, as to the quality of water and wastewater service we provide and as
to certain other matters in the states in which our regulated subsidiaries operate. Only our Utility Service Affiliates, Inc. (USA), Utility
Service Affiliates (Perth Amboy), Inc. (USA-PA) and White Marsh Environmental Services, Inc. (White Marsh) subsidiaries are not regulated
public utilities as related to rates and services quality. All municipal or commercial entities whose utility operations are managed by
these entities, however, are subject to environmental regulation at the federal and state levels.

Our principal New Jersey water utility system (the
Middlesex System) provides water services to approximately 61,000 retail customers, primarily in central New Jersey. The Middlesex System
also provides water sales under contract to municipalities in central New Jersey with a total population of over 0.2 million. Our other
New Jersey subsidiaries, Pinelands Water Company (Pinelands Water) and Pinelands Wastewater Company (Pinelands Wastewater) (collectively,
Pinelands) provide water and wastewater services to approximately 2,500 customers in Southampton Township, New Jersey.

Our Delaware subsidiaries, Tidewater and Southern
Shores Water Company, LLC, provide water services to approximately 62,000 retail customers in New Castle, Kent and Sussex Counties, Delaware.
Tidewater’s subsidiary, White Marsh, services approximately 4,300 households in Kent and Sussex Counties through various operations
and maintenance contracts.

USA-PA operates the water and wastewater systems for
the City of Perth Amboy, New Jersey (Perth Amboy) under a 10-year operations and maintenance contract expiring in 2028. In addition to
performing day-to day operations, USA-PA is also responsible for emergency response and management of capital projects funded by Perth
Amboy.

USA operates the Borough of Avalon, New Jersey’s
(Avalon) water utility, sewer utility and storm water system under a ten-year operations and maintenance contract expiring in 2032. USA
also operates the Borough of Highland Park, New Jersey’s (Highland Park) water and wastewater systems under a 10-year operations
and maintenance contract expiring in 2030. In addition to performing day-to-day service operations, USA is responsible for emergency response
and management of capital projects