Company: MSEX
Filing Date: 2025-02-28
Form Type: 10-K
Source: 0001174947-25-000251
Chunk: 393

Company: MIDDLESEX WATER CO
Filing Date: 2025-02-28
Form: 10-K
Item: Item 1C
Chunk 393
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 the Ronson Road complex. The leased space, which is
under contract through December 2029, houses our corporate administrative functions including executive, accounting, communications,
customer service and billing, engineering, human resources, information technology and legal.

Tidewater System 

The Tidewater System is comprised of 85 production
plants that vary in pumping capacity from 46,000 gallons per day to 4.4 mgd. Water is transported to our customers through 938 miles of
transmission and distribution mains. Storage facilities include 48 tanks, with an aggregate capacity of 9.9 million gallons. The Delaware
office property, located on an eleven-acre parcel owned by White Marsh, consists of two office buildings totaling approximately 17,000
square feet. In addition, Tidewater maintains a field operations center servicing its largest service territory in Sussex County, Delaware.
The operations center is located on a 2.9 acre parcel owned by White Marsh, and consists of three buildings totaling approximately 12,000
square feet.

Pinelands Water System 

Pinelands Water owns well site and storage properties
in Southampton Township, New Jersey. The Pinelands Water storage facility is a 1.3 million gallon standpipe. Water is transported to our
customers through 18 miles of transmission and distribution mains.

Pinelands Wastewater System 

Pinelands Wastewater owns a 12 acre site on which
its 0.5 mgd capacity wastewater treatment plant and connecting pipes are located. Its wastewater collection system is comprised of approximately
24 miles of sewer lines.

USA-PA, USA and White Marsh

Our non-regulated subsidiaries, namely USA-PA,
USA and White Marsh, do not own utility plant property.

ITEM 3.LEGAL PROCEEDINGS. 

In September 2021, the NJDEP issued a Notice to
Middlesex based on self-reporting by Middlesex that the level of Perfluorooctanoic Acid (PFOA) in water treated at its Park Avenue Plant
in New Jersey exceeded a recently promulgated NJDEP standard effective in 2021. Neither the NJDEP nor Middlesex characterized this exceedance
as an acute health emergency. However, Middlesex was required to notify its affected customers and the Company 

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complied in due course.
Water currently being delivered to customers is in compliance with all USEPA and NJDEP drinking water standards,
including the newly established water quality standard for PFO