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

Sec. 25-32. Department of Public Health jurisdiction over and duties concerning water supplies, water companies and operators of water treatment plants and water distribution systems. (a) The Department of Public Health shall have jurisdiction over all matters concerning the puri…

Sec. 25-32a. “Consumer” and “water company” defined. As used in sections 25-32, 25-33 and 25-34, “consumer” means any private dwelling, hotel, motel, boardinghouse, apartment, store, office building, institution, mechanical or manufacturing establishment or other place of busines…

Sec. 25-32b. Public drinking water supply emergency. The Commissioner of Public Health, in consultation with the Commissioner of Energy and Environmental Protection and the Public Utilities Regulatory Authority, may declare a public drinking water supply emergency upon receipt of…

Sec. 25-32c. Civil penalty. Any person who violates any provision of an authorization or order issued pursuant to section 25-32b, shall pay a civil fine not to exceed five thousand dollars per day, to be fixed by the Superior Court, commencing from the date compliance to the auth…

Sec. 25-32d. Water supply plans. (a) Each water company, as defined in section 25-32a, and supplying water to one thousand or more persons or two hundred fifty or more consumers and any other water company as defined in said section requested by the Commissioner of Public Health …

Sec. 25-32e. Imposition of civil penalties for violations of certain drinking water laws and regulations. (a) If, upon review, investigation or inspection, the Commissioner of Public Health determines that a water company has violated any provision of section 25-32, section 25-32…

Sec. 25-32f. Testimony by commissioner on municipal actions. Appeals. The Commissioner of Public Health or his designee may submit written testimony to any municipal board or commission and may appear by right as a party to any hearing before such municipal board or commission co…

Sec. 25-32g. Orders to correct immediate threats to public water supplies. If the Commissioner of Public Health finds after investigation that any person is causing, engaging in or maintaining, or is about to cause, engage in or maintain, any condition or activity which violates …

Sec. 25-32h. Residential retrofit program, civil penalty. Section 25-32h is repealed, effective October 1, 2002. (P.A. 89-266, S. 1; P.A. 93-381, S. 9, 39; P.A. 94-144, S. 1, 6; P.A. 95-257, S. 12, 21, 58; P.A. 02-89, S. 90.)

Sec. 25-32i. Residential Water-Saving Advisory Board. Section 25-32i is repealed, effective July 1, 2013. (P.A. 89-266, S. 3; P.A. 93-381, S. 9, 39; P.A. 94-144, S. 5, 6; P.A. 95-257, S. 12, 21, 58; P.A. 11-80, S. 75; P.A. 13-299, S. 95.)

Sec. 25-32j. Installation of reduced-pressure-principle backflow preventers, when required. Section 25-32j is repealed. (May Sp. Sess. P.A. 92-14, S. 8, 11; P.A. 95-110.)

Sec. 25-32k. Provision of educational materials to water company customers addressing water conservation, water supply source protection, and the health effects and sources of lead and copper. Civil penalty. (a) Each water company, as defined in section 25-32a, serving one thousa…

Sec. 25-32l. Inclusion of educational materials on water conservation may be required in water supply plans. The Commissioner of Public Health may require in a water supply plan, prepared pursuant to section 25-32d, the inclusion of a description of a water company's program to p…

Sec. 25-32m. Sale of bottled water by water company or municipality. (a) Any water company, as defined in section 25-32a, may engage in the sale of bottled water or establish an entity under chapter 601 for the purpose of engaging in the sale of bottled water within or outside of…

Sec. 25-32n. Water service to a school administration building from a well. Notwithstanding the provisions of the general statutes, a municipality with a population between thirty-eight thousand and forty-three thousand persons, as enumerated in the 2000 federal decennial census,…

Sec. 25-33. Water company: Reporting and record retention requirements. Plan required for construction or expansion of water supply system or a proposed new source of water supply. Regulations. Approval of location of replacement public well. (a) On or before January first, annua…

Sec. 25-33a. State grants for water facilities. State bond authorization. (a) The State Bond Commission shall have power, from time to time to authorize the issuance of bonds of the state in one or more series and in principal amounts not exceeding in the aggregate four million o…

Sec. 25-33b. Regulations re loans and grants to water companies. The Commissioner of Economic and Community Development shall adopt regulations in accordance with chapter 54 which specify the terms and conditions of low-interest loans and grants to water companies and any additio…

Sec. 25-33c. Legislative finding. The General Assembly finds that an adequate supply of potable water for domestic, commercial and industrial use is vital to the health and well-being of the people of the state. Readily available water for use in public water systems is limited a…

Sec. 25-33d. Definitions. As used in sections 25-33c to 25-33j, inclusive: (a) “Public water system” means any private, municipal or regional utility supplying water to fifteen or more service connections or twenty-five or more persons; (b) “Public water supply management area” m…

Sec. 25-33e. Delineation of public water supply management areas. (a) Not more than six months after July 1, 1985, the Commissioner of Public Health, in consultation with the Public Utilities Regulatory Authority, the Commissioner of Energy and Environmental Protection and the Se…

Sec. 25-33f. Water utility coordinating committees. Membership. (a) The Commissioner of Public Health, following the final priorities established pursuant to section 25-33e, shall convene a water utility coordinating committee for each public water supply management area to imple…

Sec. 25-33g. Assessment of water supply conditions and problems. Exclusive service area boundaries. (a) Each water utility coordinating committee, in consultation with the Commissioners of Public Health and Energy and Environmental Protection, the Secretary of the Office of Polic…

Sec. 25-33h. Coordinated water system plan. Regulations. (a) Each water utility coordinating committee shall prepare a coordinated water system plan in the public water supply management area. Such plan shall be submitted to the Commissioner of Public Health for his approval not …

Sec. 25-33i. Consistency with plan. Restriction on approval of public water supply system. (a) Any permit issued by the Commissioner of Public Health pursuant to this chapter shall, to the extent feasible, be consistent with any coordinated plan adopted pursuant to section 25-33h…

Sec. 25-33j. Contract for services to water utility coordinating committee. The Commissioner of Public Health may enter into contracts with consultants to provide services to water utility coordinating committees. The amount of any contract shall not exceed two hundred fifty thou…

Sec. 25-33k. Abandonment of source of water supply. Definition. Application and notification to municipalities. Basis for commissioner's decision. (a) For purposes of this section, “safe yield” means the maximum dependable quantity of water per unit of time that may flow or be pu…

Sec. 25-33l. Sale of source, potential source or abandoned source of water supply. (a) Whenever any water company intends to sell a source, potential source or abandoned source of water supply, it shall notify the Commissioner of Public Health. The commissioner shall order such c…

Sec. 25-33m. Priority for acquisition of source, potential source or abandoned source of water supply. Notwithstanding the provisions of section 16-50d, any water company given written notice pursuant to subsection (b) of section 25-33l shall have priority to acquire a source, po…

Sec. 25-33n. Annual report on water planning process. On or before the second Wednesday after the convening of each regular session of the General Assembly, the Commissioner of Public Health shall submit a report to the joint standing committees of the General Assembly having cog…

Sec. 25-33o. Water Planning Council: Composition, duties, advisory group, report. (a) The chairperson of the Public Utilities Regulatory Authority, or the chairperson's designee, the Commissioner of Energy and Environmental Protection, or the commissioner's designee, the Secretar…

Sec. 25-33p. Annual report on Water Planning Council. Section 25-33p is repealed, effective June 5, 2013. (June Sp. Sess. P.A. 07-4, S. 3; P.A. 11-80, S. 1; P.A. 13-78, S. 13.)

Sec. 25-33q. List designating sources or potential sources of water that require protection. Not later than October 31, 2011, the Commissioner of Public Health, in consultation with the Water Planning Council established pursuant to section 25-33o, shall prepare a list designatin…

Sec. 25-34. Investigation of water or ice supply. (a) The Department of Public Health may, and upon complaint shall, investigate any system of water supply or source of water or ice supply from which water or ice used by the public is obtained, and, if it finds any pollution or t…

Sec. 25-35. Enforcement agents. The Department of Public Health may employ agents and engineers to carry out the provisions of sections 25-32, 25-33 and 25-34, at such expense as may be approved by the Secretary of the Office of Policy and Management. (1949 Rev., S. 4018; P.A. 77…

Sec. 25-36. Orders of department; appeals; civil penalty. (a) Except as provided otherwise in this part, any person or corporation aggrieved by any order of the Department of Public Health made under the provisions of this part, may appeal therefrom in accordance with the provisi…

Sec. 25-37. Penalties. Any individual, partnership, association, corporation, municipality, company or other entity violating any provision of sections 25-32 to 25-36, inclusive, or any order, standard or regulation issued thereunder shall be fined not more than five hundred doll…

Sec. 25-37a. Legislative finding and purpose. The General Assembly finds and declares that an adequate supply of pure water is and will always be essential for the health and safety and economic well-being of the state, that lands acquired for public water supply purposes are and…

Sec. 25-37b. Definitions. As used in sections 25-32 and 25-37a to 25-37e, inclusive, “critical components of a stream belt” means (1) the watercourse of a defined stream including banks, beds and water; (2) land subject to stream overflow; (3) associated wetlands, and (4) shoreli…

Sec. 25-37c. Regulations. Classification of land owned by or acquired from a water company. The Department of Public Health shall adopt, in accordance with chapter 54, regulations establishing criteria and performance standards for three classes of water-company-owned land. (a) C…

Sec. 25-37d. Commissioner to adopt regulations re permit applications. Referral to consultant. Appointment of professional review team. Within two years after June 26, 1977, the commissioner shall adopt regulations in accordance with chapter 54 for the review of permit applicatio…

Sec. 25-37e. Duties of commissioner re permit applications. Within sixty days after the receipt of a complete permit application, the Commissioner of Public Health shall issue a written decision granting or denying the permit and setting forth the reasons for his decision, provid…

Sec. 25-37f. Report to General Assembly. Section 25-37f is repealed, effective October 1, 2002. (P.A. 77-606, S. 7, 10; 77-614, S. 323, 587, 610; P.A. 78-303, S. 85, 136; P.A. 93-381, S. 9, 39; P.A. 95-257, S. 12, 21, 58; P.A. 02-89, S. 90.)

Sec. 25-37g. Prohibition of sale of certain water company owned land. No water company land classified under section 25-37c as class II land shall be sold, leased or assigned for a period of three years from June 26, 1977, or until the final adoption of regulations by the Commiss…

Sec. 25-37h. Notification of security interest required. Any water company which mortgages or gives a security interest in class I or II land or any essential part of its plant equipment or other property necessary or useful in the performance of its duty to the public shall imme…

Sec. 25-37i. Use of municipally owned watershed land for construction and operation of golf course. Section 25-37i is repealed, effective May 26, 2016. (June Sp. Sess. P.A. 01-4, S. 13, 58; P.A. 11-80, S. 1; P.A. 16-61, S. 2.)