WATERBURY — The city spent $230,000 on bottled water for residents and $146,284 in police overtime during the citywide water outage that lasted five very long days and closed schools and businesses. The water crisis cost the city $2.5 million on water, parts, labor and continued repairs after the lack of a bypass valve on Thomaston Avenue forced the city to shut off water to fix the leak without causing more damage. The lack of a bypass valve was also an issue with an earlier disruptive break in one of the city’s largest and oldest high-pressure water mains on Huntingdon Avenue in September. The parts and repair costs in that disruption were $1.2 million, according to the mayor’s office. Collectively, the city spent $33.7 million on repairs and preventive equipment upgrades in 2025, according to city officials. The $17 million spent on repairs to the Thomaston Avenue and Huntingdon Avenue disruption adds to $30 million spent in 2025 on infrastructure improvements. Nearly $10 million was allocated to upgrade pumps and mixers that deliver water to the city’s storage tanks and distribution system. This project is near completion and expected to be fully finalized this year, Pernerewski said last week.

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