CTWS Connecticut Water Services Inc

As filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission on October 10, 2019

Registration No. 333-220387

UNITED STATES

SECURITIES AND EXCHANGE COMMISSION

Washington, D.C. 20549

POST-EFFECTIVE AMENDMENT NO. 1 TO

FORM S-3

REGISTRATION STATEMENT NO. 333-220387

Under

The Securities Act of 1933

93 West Main Street

Clinton, CT 06413

(860) 664-6030

(Address, including zip code, and telephone number, including area code, of registrant’s principal executive offices)

David C. Benoit

President

Connecticut Water Service, Inc.

93 West Main Street

Clinton, CT 06413

(860) 664-6030

(Name, address, including zip code, and telephone number, including area code, of agent for service)

Approximate date of commencement of proposed sale to the public: Not applicable.

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TERMINATION OF REGISTRATION STATEMENT AND DEREGISTRATION OF SECURITIES

This Post-Effective Amendment No. 1 relates to the Registration Statement on Form S-3 (Registration No. 333-220387) of Connecticut Water Service, Inc. (the “Company”) filed with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission on September 8, 2017 (as amended, the “Registration Statement”).

The Registration Statement registered 438,271 shares of common stock, without par value (“Common Stock”), of the Company pursuant to the Company’s Third Amended and Restated Dividend Reinvestment and Common Stock Purchase Plan, dated August 11, 2017 (the “Offering”).

On October 9, 2019, pursuant to the terms of the Second Amended and Restated Agreement and Plan of Merger, dated as of August 5, 2018, by and among the Company, SJW Group, a Delaware corporation (“SJW”), Hydro Sub, Inc., a Connecticut corporation and a wholly-owned subsidiary of the Company (“Merger Sub”), Merger Sub merged with and into the Company, and the Company became a wholly-owned subsidiary of SJW (the “Merger”).

As a result of the Merger, the Company has terminated the Offering, and no additional Common Stock will be issued thereunder. The Company, by filing this Post-Effective Amendment No. 1 to the Registration Statement, hereby terminates the effectiveness of the Registration Statement and removes from registration any and all Common Stock registered for issuance but which remain unsold under the Registration Statement as of the date of this Post-Effective Amendment No. 1. This filing is made in accordance with an undertaking made by the Company in the Registration Statement to remove from registration, by means of a post-effective amendment, any of the Common Stock which had been registered for issuance but remain unsold at the termination of the Offering.

SIGNATURES

Pursuant to the requirements of the Securities Act of 1933, as amended, the Company certifies that it has reasonable grounds to believe that it meets all of the requirements for filing on Form S-3 and has duly caused this Post-Effective Amendment No. 1 to the Registration Statement to be signed on its behalf by the undersigned, thereunto duly authorized, in the City of Clinton, in the State of Connecticut on this 10th day of October, 2019.

No other person is required to sign this Post-Effective Amendment No. 1 to the Registration Statement in reliance on Rule 478 under the Securities Act of 1933, as amended.