page_title: Metropolitan District Commission of Connecticut
section_title: Reservoirs
hierarchical_section_title: Metropolitan District Commission of Connecticut / Reservoirs
caption_attribution_description: English: The woods of a Rochambeau campsite from the American Revolution, in West Hartford near the Metropolitan District Reservoir No. 6
context_page_description: The Metropolitan District Commission of Connecticut is a public non-profit municipal corporation chartered by the Connecticut General Assembly in 1929 to provide drinking water and sewer service to the Hartford area. The original agreement tied together the water systems of Hartford, Bloomfield, Newington, Wethersfield, and Windsor. The MDC currently serves eight towns in the Hartford area. The MDC is run by a 29-member board of commissioners; 17 of which are appointed by the member towns, eight by the governor, and four by legislative leaders. The current Chairman of the MDC Board is William A. DiBella.
context_section_description: The Barkhamsted Reservoir was created with the completion of the Saville Dam on the Farmington River. The Barkhamsted Reservoir has a filled volume of 36.8 billion US gallons (139,000,000 m3) and is the largest impoundment on the Farmington River system. The reservoir was completed in 1940 at a cost of $10 million. Filling the reservoir destroyed much of the town of Barkhamsted Hollow. Water from the Barkhamstead Reservoir is transferred by pipes to filtration stations in West Hartford and Bloomfield using only the force of gravity.
  The West Hartford Reservoirs are a series of five reservoirs and a number of ponds and water tanks in West Hartford, Connecticut. The Revolutionary War Campsite is a historic archaeological site located on MDC land near Reservoir #6.
  Nepaug Reservoir
  Lake McDonough and Hogback Reservoir
caption: Woods of Rochambeau campsite in West Hartford, August 27, 2008
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