The Waterbury Democrat., 1931-01-24
Conn. Public, Utiliti9ss g a Will Spend $33,060jO 900
 For 1881 improvements
New Haven Railroad and SQuthern New England Tele' phone Company Will Have Largest Expenditures Many Additions and Extensionsin Power and Light Field Throughout State

:. 900, will'be spent in similar work for
 gas distribution.
 Two other companies in the same
 group, the Manchester Electric Com
 pany and the Union Electric Light
 and Power Company will expend
 $60,000 and $6,500 respectively. for miscellaneous Improvements.
 In the neighborhood of $190,000
 will be expended for plant improve ments and extensions this year by the Dahbury and Bethel Gas and Electric Company. This amount will cover the completion of a warehouse and garage now under construction and extensions both of the electric and gas systems.
 Gas companies, meaning those util- ities whose operations are limited to the manufacture and distribution of gas and which do not also furnish electric service, estimate their 1881 expenditures at slightly more than one million dollars.
 The largest amount in the gas group will be spent by the New Ha- ven Gas Light company which has planned improvements valued at $368,000. This covers the instal1a- tion. of large gas compressor and a gas 4exhauster as well as minor improvements to the plant, about 1,- 200 new service connections and B. 900 new meter installations. Minor distribution system and office im- provements are also planned.
 In addition to normal expendi- lures for main extensions and serv- icing, the Bridgeport Gas Light conn pany expects to spend $150,OO0 for the betterment of it's distribution sys tenn and new and improved plant equipment.
 The Hartford Gas Company antic- | ipates minimum expenditure of | $150,000 10 cover the Improvements | which 1t plans to make in 1881, with a possible increase dependent upon
 greater building activity in the ter ritory and a consequent increased
 demand for service extensions. The 1881 improvement budget of | the Greenwich Gas Company totals $l76,O00. .This sum will cover ad- ditional meters, installation of ad- d:tional mains, district governors and. the erection of a new spherical gas holder at Greenwich in the event
 that the supreme court permits con-
 struction on the site proposed. Approximately one and one-half million dollars will be expended in Connecticut this year by the larger water companies of the state for i'm provements to. their systems. Of
 this total, s550,000 will be spent by the, Bridgeport Hydraulic company | for the addition of fifteen miles of new pipe, the purchase of land for future development and the con-
 struction of a new office building. The New. Haven Water company | is planning improvements which will cost upwards, of half a million dol-
 lars. Among the major projects to be undertaken by the New Haven l~1 %1o 4xrfA rcfry >f | the supply main of the new North Branford development, now the larg- Lest, -EAseryoir. ina the state. Feeder lines with pipes varying from sixteen to thirty-six inches in diameter will be extended into the main distribu- ton system, so that water from the 1 new development may be adequately distributed throughout the com
 pany's territory. Extensions to the high pressure system supplying the
 towns of Cheshire and Hamden will
 be made, while the new West Shore l high, pressure system will be com pleted, making an additional supply
 available for the Milford district
 which suffered considerably in the
 long drouth of 1890.
 Betterments estimated at $8O,OO0 will besmade by the Stamford Water compAnY, which. advanced into 1930
 large part of it's work originally planned for 1881. thus enabling the l.companJ to employ as labor four l times, as many. men as in the pre- 'vious year. This year, the Stamford company will complete its Hycliff pumping station: improve it's dis tribution system by eliminating dead
 ends and replacing obsolete pipe and make the usual extensions to cae, l for new developments. !. | {. The Asonia Water company als l undertook considerable amount Or | additional work during the past year | and during the current year will have to ,spend about $6,00O, chiefly | for meterfpg about half of the com- | pany's present unmetered service.