Connecticut Administrative Code
Title 19 - Public Health and Safety
13-B
Chapter II - ENVIRONMENTAL HEALTH
Water Supply Wells and Springs
Section 19-13-B51d - Location

Current through September 9, 2024

All separating distances are to be measured horizontally.

(a) Wells with a required withdrawal rate of under ten gallons per minute.

(1) Each such well shall be located at a relatively high point on the premises consistent with the general layout and surroundings; be protected against surface wash; be as far removed from any known or probable source of pollution as the general layout of the premises and the surroundings will permit; and, so far as possible, be in a direction away from ground water flow from any existing or probable source of pollution.

(2) No such well shall be located within seventy-five feet of a system for disposal of sewage or other source of pollution. Greater separating distances shall be required for certain industrial wastes or certain rock formations. If a sewer is constructed of extra heavy cast iron pipe with leaded joints or equal approved type of tight joint, a minimum separating distance of twenty-five feet shall be maintained.

(3) No such well shall be located within twenty-five feet of the high water mark of any surface water body, nor within twenty-five feet of a drain carrying surface water or of a foundation drain.

(b) Wells with a required withdrawal rate of from ten to fifty gallons per minute.

(1) Each such well shall be located at a relatively high point on the premises consistent with the general layout and surroundings; be protected against surface wash; be as far removed from any known or probable source of pollution as the general layout of the premises and the surroundings will permit; and, so far as possible, be in a direction away from ground water flow from any existing or probable source of pollution.

(2) No such well shall be located within one hundred fifty feet of a system for disposal of sewage or other source of pollution. Greater separating distance shall be required for certain industrial wastes or certain rock formations. If a sewer is constructed of extra heavy cast iron pipe with leaded joints or equal approved type of tight joint, a minimum separating distance of seventy-five feet shall be maintained.

(3) No such well shall be located within fifty feet of high water mark of any surface water body, nor within fifty feet of a drain carrying surface water or of a foundation drain.

(c) Wells with a required withdrawal rate of more than fifty gallons per minute.

(1) Location of such well shall be approved by the state department of health in accordance with the provisions of section 25-33 of the 1969 supplement to the general statutes and section 19-13-B39 of the public health code.

(2) Each such well shall be located at a relatively high point on the premises consistent with the general layout and surroundings; be protected against surface wash; be as far removed from any known or probable source of pollution as the general layout of the premises and the surroundings will permit; and, so far as possible, be in a direction away from ground water flow from any existing or probable source of pollution.

(3) No such well shall be located within two hundred feet of a system for disposal of sewage or other source of pollution. If conditions warrant, greater distance shall be required Sanitary conditions in the area within the radial distance required shall be under control of the well owner by ownership, easement, or other arrangement approved by the commissioner of health. If a sewer is constructed of extra heavy cast iron pipe with leaded joints or equal approved type of tight joint, a minimum separating distance of one hundred feet shall be maintained.

(4) No such well shall be located within fifty feet of the high water mark of any surface water body nor within fifty feet of a drain carrying surface water or of a foundation drain.

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