Naugatuck Valley Planning RegionConnecticut
Waterbury, Connecticut
1 high-hazard dam is rated in poor or unsatisfactory condition. 8 of its 111 inventoried bridges are rated poor (7%, against 5% statewide).
- Live · as of Sep 11, 2026
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Bridges rated poor
8
of 111 inventoried · 2 closed
Poor high-hazard dams
1
National Inventory of Dams
01 · Dams & disasters
1 high-hazard dam needs work
| Dam | Condition | Built |
|---|---|---|
| Mad River Dam Homestead Avenue DamMad River | Poor | 1900 |
High hazard potential means failure would probably cost lives — it rates the consequences, not the dam’s condition.
02 · Bridges
8 of 111 bridges are rated poor — above the Connecticut rate of 5%
Every highway bridge and large culvert in the 2025 National Bridge Inventory that stands inside Waterbury. Median age 61 years; 2 closed.
23% good, 7% poor
FHWA good / fair / poor rating — the lowest of deck, superstructure, substructure or culvert.
- Good25 · 23%
- Fair78 · 70%
- Poor8 · 7%
Structures by decade built
n = 111 structuresSource: FHWA National Bridge Inventory 2025
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| Built | Structures |
|---|---|
| pre-1910 | 2 |
| 1920s | 3 |
| 1930s | 5 |
| 1940s | 4 |
| 1950s | 7 |
| 1960s | 61 |
| 1970s | 4 |
| 1980s | 5 |
| 1990s | 4 |
| 2000s | 3 |
| 2010s | 13 |
The poor-rated bridges
| Carries | Over | Built | Daily traffic |
|---|---|---|---|
| INTERSTATE-84 EB | I-84WB RTE8 NAUGATUCK RV | 1967 | 63,000 |
| INTERSTATE 84 WB | RTE 8 NAUG RIV M-N RR | 1967 | 33,600 |
| ROUTE 8 NORTHBOUND | ROUTE 8 SB & LOCAL ROADS | 1966 | 30,400 |
| ROUTE 8 SOUTHBOUND | RIVERSIDE ST-SUNNYSIDE | 1966 | 16,900 |
| I-84 TR 809 | ROUTE 8 NB RIVERSIDE ST | 1966 | 14,600 |
| I-84 TR 808 | ROUTE 8 SB & RAMP 129 | 1966 | 4,200 |
| EAGLE STREET | NAUGATUCK RIVER | 1956 | 3,067 |
| I-84 RAMP 197closed | RAMP 202 MEADOW STREET | 1967 | 2,800 |
03 · Next door
Waterbury and the 8 towns that border it
A dash means no data for that layer, not zero.
| Town | Poor bridges |
|---|---|
| Waterbury, CT | 8 / 111 |
| Naugatuck, CT | 1 / 36 |
| Thomaston, CT | 1 / 36 |
| Cheshire, CT | 0 / 32 |
| Middlebury, CT | 1 / 27 |
| Plymouth, CT | 0 / 19 |
| Watertown, CT | 0 / 18 |
| Wolcott, CT | 0 / 8 |
| Prospect, CT | 0 / 1 |
Where these numbers come from
Method, sources & caveats
Waterbury is the Census county subdivision 0914080070 (Naugatuck Valley Planning Region). Every record is placed here by its coordinates, not by the place name the source uses.
- Towns are Census county subdivisions: cities, towns, plantations, and Maine/New Hampshire unorganized territories and townships. Every record is placed in a town by its coordinates (point-in-polygon), not by the source's own place label — so a bridge in Roxbury counts for Boston and a well in 'North Waltham' counts for Waltham.
- Bridges: FHWA NBI 2025, highway structures ≥ 20 ft including large culverts. 'Poor' is FHWA's good/fair/poor rating (lowest of deck, superstructure, substructure or culvert ≤ 4). Percent-poor is shown only for towns with at least 5 structures.
- Depth to bedrock is the median of driller- and boring-reported depths in the town, shown only where at least 10 logs exist. Water-well logs over-sample rural lots and hilltops; one town median never describes a particular site.
- Bedrock depths use the same state databases and filters as the Bedrock & soils module (bedrock wells and borings that reached rock, 0 < depth ≤ 400 ft, exact re-filings dropped), but every log is placed in a town by its coordinates rather than the driller's town field, so town counts can differ slightly between the two pages. Connecticut and Rhode Island have no statewide public well-log database with depths.
- Dams: only high-hazard-potential dams whose latest condition assessment is Poor or Unsatisfactory are counted (live NID). Connecticut and Rhode Island assessments may lag.
- FEMA Public Assistance dollars are federal share obligated for disasters declared since 2010, reported by county — they are county context, not a town figure.
- Grant awards are Massachusetts only (EEA Dam & Seawall program, MVP Action grants, CZM Coastal Resilience). Other states' programs are not yet included.
- Ground-related permit counts cover only the municipal portals the pipeline reads (Boston, Cambridge, Somerville, Worcester, Framingham, Providence, Portsmouth, Hartford and a few others) — an absent count means 'not covered', not zero.
- Data as of
- Sep 11, 2026
- Generated
- Sep 11, 2026
- Records
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- U.S. Census Bureau cartographic boundary files — county subdivisions (2024, 1:500k)Public domain
- FHWA National Bridge Inventory (2025 delimited files)Public domain
- USACE National Inventory of DamsPublic domainHigh-hazard dams rated Poor or Unsatisfactory (live NID).
- USGS U.S. Landslide InventoryPublic domain
- MassGIS / Massachusetts Geological Survey — Bedrock Data PointsPublic recordBorings and well logs that reached rock (MassDEP well drillers, USGS, MWRA, MassDOT…); seismic/HVSR and map-derived shallow-bedrock/outcrop points excluded.
- NH DES Water Well Inventory, Maine Geological Survey Wells Database, Vermont DEC well recordsPublic recordBedrock wells only; driller-reported depth to bedrock / overburden thickness.
- OpenFEMA Public Assistance Funded Projects Details (v2)Public domain
- MA EEA / CZM grant awards — Dam & Seawall, MVP Action, CZM Coastal ResiliencePublic record
- Municipal open-data permit portals (Boston, Cambridge, Somerville, Providence, Portsmouth, others)Public recordOnly permits flagged as ground-related (retaining walls, excavation, foundations) are counted.
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