Company: MSEX
Filing Date: 2025-05-12
Form Type: 424B5
Source: 0001104659-25-047381
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Company: MIDDLESEX WATER CO
Filing Date: 2025-05-12
Form: 424B5
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 beliefs, plans, objectives, assumptions or future events or performance are not historical
facts and may be forward-looking. These statements are often, but are not always, made through the use of words or phrases such as “anticipate,”
“believe,” “contemplate,” “continue,” “could,” “estimate,” “expect,”
“intend,” “may,” “plan,” “potential,” “predict,” “project,” “seek,”
“should,” “target,” “will,” “would,” or the negative of these words or other comparable
terminology. Accordingly, these statements involve estimates, assumptions and uncertainties which could cause actual results to differ
materially from those expressed in them. Any forward-looking statements are qualified in their entirety by reference to the factors discussed
throughout this prospectus supplement, the accompanying prospectus and the documents that we incorporate by reference, and in particular
those factors referenced in the section “Risk Factors”.

This prospectus supplement,
the accompanying prospectus and the documents that we incorporate by reference contain forward-looking statements that are based on our
management’s belief and assumptions and on information currently available to our management. These statements relate to future
events or our future financial performance, and involve known and unknown risks, uncertainties and other factors that may cause our actual
results, levels of activity, performance or achievements to be materially different from any future results, levels of activity, performance
or achievements expressed or implied by these forward-looking statements. Forward-looking statements include, but are not limited to,
statements as to:

| - | expected financial condition, performance, prospects and earnings of the Company; |

| - | strategic plans for growth; |

| - | the amount and timing of rate increases and other regulatory matters, including the recovery of certain 
 costs recorded as regulatory assets;                                                                    |

| - | the Company’s expected liquidity needs during the upcoming fiscal year and beyond and the sources 
 and availability of funds to meet its liquidity needs;                                            |

| - | expected customer rates, consumption volumes, service fees, revenues, margins, expenses and operating 
 results;                                                                                              |

| - | financial projections; |

| - | the expected amount of cash contributions to fund the Company’s retirement benefit plans, anticipated 
 discount rates and rates of return on plan assets;                                                    |

| - | the ability of the Company to pay dividends; |

| - | the Company’s compliance with environmental laws and regulations and estimations of the materiality 
 of any related costs;                                                                               |

| - | the safety