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

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 Section 25-37f is repealed, effective October 1, 2002.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.)

Sec. 25-38. Carcass of animal in water supply. Section 25-38 is repealed, effective October 1, 2012. (1949 Rev., S. 4021; P.A. 12-80, S. 193.)

Sec. 25-39. Pollution of drinking water. Any person who puts anything into a well, spring, fountain, cistern or other place from which water is procured for drinking or other purposes, with the intent to injure the quality of such water, shall be fined not more than five hundred …

Sec. 25-39a. Monitoring of public water supplies for organic chemicals. Listing of harmful carcinogens. Reports re. Section 25-39a is repealed, effective October 1, 2008. (P.A. 77-527, S. 1, 3; 77-614, S. 323, 587, 610; P.A. 78-303, S. 85, 136; P.A. 88-172, S. 4; P.A. 93-381, S. …

Sec. 25-39b. Installation of vinyl-lined pipe restricted. Report by commissioner. Section 25-39b is repealed, effective October 1, 2002. (P.A. 80-359, S. 3, 4; P.A. 93-381, S. 9, 39; P.A. 95-257, S. 12, 21, 58; P.A. 02-89, S. 90.)

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.)

Secs. 25-54a to 25-54v. Transferred to Chapter 446k, Secs. 22a-422 to 22a-443, inclusive.

Sec. 25-54qq. Penalty. Section 25-54qq is repealed. (1971, P.A. 248, S. 4; P.A. 73-665, S. 16, 17; P.A. 74-311, S. 5, 6.)

Secs. 25-54rr to 25-54yy. Transferred to Chapter 446k, Secs. 22a-463 to 22a-470, inclusive.

Sec. 25-54w. State advance in anticipation of federal funds for engineering report. Section 25-54w is repealed. (1967, P.A. 57, S. 22; 1971, P.A. 872, S. 157.)

Secs. 25-54x to 25-54pp. Transferred to Chapter 446k, Secs. 22a-444 to 22a-462, inclusive.

Secs. 25-55 to 25-66a. Transferred to Chapter 446f, Secs. 22a-293 to 22a-305, inclusive.

Secs. 25-67, 25-68 and 25-68a. Transferred to Chapter 446g, Secs. 22a-308 to 22a-310, inclusive.

Sec. 25-68b. Definitions. As used in sections 25-68b to 25-68h, inclusive: (1) “Activity” means any proposed state action in a floodplain or any proposed state action that impacts natural or man-made storm drainage facilities that are located on property that the commissioner det…

Sec. 25-68c. Powers and duties of commissioner. The commissioner shall have the following powers and duties under sections 25-68b to 25-68h, inclusive: (1) To coordinate, monitor and analyze the floodplain management activities of state and local agencies; (2) To coordinate flood…

Sec. 25-68d. Certification of activity or critical activity within or affecting the floodplain. Application for exemption. Exemptions. (a) No state agency shall undertake an activity or a critical activity within or affecting the floodplain without first obtaining an approval or …

Sec. 25-68e. Suspension. The provisions of sections 25-68b to 25-68h, inclusive, and any regulations adopted thereunder may be suspended by the commissioner during any disaster emergency proclaimed by the Governor pursuant to section 28-9a or during an emergency declaration or ma…

Sec. 25-68f. Floodplain designation. Where more than one flood zone has been designated for an area, the most stringent designation shall be used in fulfilling the provisions of sections 25-68b to 25-68h, inclusive. (P.A. 84-536, S. 5.)

Sec. 25-68g. Immunity. The state, any municipality or any officer or employee thereof shall not be liable for any damage resulting from reliance on any decision made pursuant to section 25-68d. (P.A. 84-536, S. 6.)

Sec. 25-68h. Regulations. The commissioner shall adopt regulations in accordance with the provisions of chapter 54 to implement the provisions of sections 25-68b to 25-68h, inclusive. Such regulations shall include, but not be limited to, (1) standards for stormwater management a…

Sec. 25-68i. Guidelines for municipal ordinances re floodplains. The Commissioner of Energy and Environmental Protection shall develop guidelines to be used by municipalities in revising ordinances restricting flood storage and conveyance of water for floodplains, as defined in s…