Title 25, Title 25: Water Resources. Flood and Erosion Control

Sec. 25-39c. Installation of asbestos cement pipe restricted. Determination by commissioner re health hazard. On and after October 1, 1980, no person, firm, corporation or municipality may install any asbestos cement pipe in any water supply system until the Commissioner of Publi…

Sec. 25-39d. List of hazardous substances to be submitted to health director. Any industrial or manufacturing firm or corporation, except a retail pharmacy, which mixes or produces for commercial sale, any elements or compounds listed in 40 CFR 116 and designated as hazardous sub…

Sec. 25-39e. Restriction on use of lead solder in potable water systems. Sale of lead solder. (a) No solder containing more than 0.2 per cent lead shall be used in making joints and fittings in any public or private potable water supply system or any water user's pipelines. (b) O…

Sec. 25-40. Analysis of water. Schedule of fees, when applicable. Town, city and borough directors of health shall, when in their judgment health may be menaced or impaired through a water supply, send, subject to the approval of the Department of Public Health, samples of such w…

Sec. 25-40a. Notification of violation of national primary drinking water standards. (a) Not later than twenty-four hours after obtaining a public water system test result that shows a contaminant at a level that is in violation of the federal Environmental Protection Agency nati…

Sec. 25-41. Cemetery not to be within one-half mile of reservoir. No cemetery or place of sepulture shall be located or established within one-half mile of any reservoir from which the inhabitants of a town, city or borough are supplied with water, nor shall such reservoir be loc…

Sec. 25-42. Power to take lands and streams. Any town, city, borough or corporation authorized by law to supply the inhabitants of any town, city or borough with pure water for public or domestic use may take and use such lands, springs, streams or ponds, or such rights or intere…

Sec. 25-43. Bathing in and pollution of reservoirs. Aircraft on reservoirs. Penalties. (a) Any person who bathes or swims in any reservoir from which the inhabitants of any town, city or borough are supplied with water, or in any lake, pond or stream tributary to any distribution…

Sec. 25-43a. Penalties applicable to one not owner, lessee or guest. The penalties of subsection (a) of section 25-43 shall also apply to any person who bathes or swims in any lake, pond or stream tributary to any public water supply reservoir who is not the owner or lessee of re…

Sec. 25-43b. Power of Department of Public Health not affected. Nothing in subsection (a) of section 25-43 or in section 25-43a shall be construed as limiting the powers of the Department of Public Health under this chapter. (1959, P.A. 632, S. 3; P.A. 77-614, S. 323, 610; P.A. 9…

Sec. 25-43c. Permitted recreation in watersheds and reservoirs. (a) Sport fishing from designated locations on shoreline or from boats propelled by oars or by electric motors with sealed storage batteries on public water supply storage and distribution reservoirs, as defined in s…

Sec. 25-43d. Taking water from or tampering with hydrant or reservoir. Penalty. No person shall open, operate, take water from or tamper with any hydrant or otherwise take water from or tamper with any public water supply reservoir without: (1) The legal authority to take such ac…

Sec. 25-44. Appointment of special police. The Governor, upon the application of any town, city or borough or of any subdivision thereof, or of any company, owning or controlling any system of waterworks or water supply, may commission, during his pleasure, one or more persons, w…

Sec. 25-45. Local ordinances concerning reservoirs. The legislative body of any city or borough may make, alter and repeal ordinances to regulate or prevent fishing, trespassing or any nuisance in or upon any property of such city or borough or of any subdivision thereof. Such or…

Sec. 25-46. Interstate waters used for drinking water supply. For the purpose of protecting the purity of interstate waters used or intended for use by any municipality, public institution or water company of this or of any adjoining state or states as sources of drinking water s…

Secs. 25-47 to 25-50. Ice: Pollution of source, notices, exception; control of sources of supply, notices. Ice from outside this state; examination. Penalties. Sections 25-47 to 25-50, inclusive, are repealed, effective October 1, 2002. (1949 Rev., S. 4011–4014; P.A. 77-614, S. 3…

Sec. 25-51. Injunction against injury to water supply or source. Whenever any land or building is used, occupied or allowed to remain in a condition such that it is or could be a source of pollution to any public water supply reservoir or associated watershed, including, but not …

Sec. 25-52. Cemeteries not to be near ice ponds. Section 25-52 is repealed, effective October 1, 2002. (1949 Rev., S. 4711; 1961, P.A. 517, S. 24; P.A. 78-280, S. 2, 127; S.A. 02-12, S. 1.)

Sec. 25-53. Abatement of nuisance. Whenever any order is made by the Superior Court for the abatement of any nuisance to such water or ice, and said court finds that compliance with such order will damage any person or corporation or deprive him or it of any substantial right, sa…

Sec. 25-54. Sale of ice regulated. Section 25-54 is repealed, effective October 1, 2002. (1949 Rev., S. 4024; P.A. 02-89, S. 90.)