Investing in the infrastructure that keeps our water clean
Ever since I was a little girl, the beach has been my happy place. I love the smell of sea air, the light along the shoreline, and swimming in open water. Living along Long Island Sound is one of the things that makes our communities so special.
Unfortunately, after heavy rains, stormwater can carry bacteria and pollutants through drainage systems and into our waterways and the Sound and make swimming unsafe. Severe weather will occasionally make closures unavoidable. But when beaches in our area have to repeatedly close because of poor water quality, we should be asking what we can do to prevent that. After all, protecting the Sound takes real planning.
My approach is simple: Fix it before it fails.
That means upgrading aging wastewater and stormwater infrastructure, improving drainage where runoff repeatedly causes problems, tracking pollution back to its source, and protecting wetlands that naturally absorb stormwater.
These projects can be expensive, and our communities shouldn’t have to shoulder the burden alone. As your state senator, I’ll fight to make sure Greenwich, Stamford and New Canaan get their fair share of state funding to make critical infrastructure investments, reduce pollution, and keep our waterways clean.
Clean water isn’t just an environmental issue. It’s about public health, our local economy, property values, and the quality of life we enjoy here. We need to protect Long Island Sound — and the communities that depend on it.
This is what I’ll fight for in Hartford. Safe water. Clean beaches. Fewer closures. And more summer days when the only decisions we have to make are what to read and when to reapply sunscreen.