While not a Middletown resident, I do know it fairly well. It is your typical CT city with the ususal problems. With it's typical democRAT control.
It was a bit unsettling to hear that "we don't know what it is but there is not any immediate health threat." How the hell do they know that if they don't know what it is???
Anyway, I guess it is a secondary reservoir that is not currently in use. Plus, Middletown is the hometown of Wesleyan, so there are enough libs in residence to more than insure stupidity in City Hall. Something which the native locals are all too willing to accept.