Connecticut Administrative Code
Title 19 - Public Health and Safety
13-B
Chapter II - ENVIRONMENTAL HEALTH
Water Supply Wells and Springs
Section 19-13-B51m - Well permits

Universal Citation: CT Reg of State Agencies 19-13-B51m

Current through September 9, 2024

(a) Subject to subsections (b) and (c) below no water supply well permit shall be given until it has been demonstrated to the satisfaction of the director of health that public sewers are available or a subsurface sewage disposal system can be installed on the lot in compliance with Sections 19-13-B103a to 19-13-B104d, inclusive of the Regulations of Connecticut State Agencies.

(b) No water supply well permit shall be given by the director of health:

(1) To premises used for human occupancy when a community water supply system having at least fifteen service connections or regularly serving at least twenty-five individuals is deemed available if the boundary of the parcel of property in which the premises is on or will be located on is within two hundred feet, measured along a street, alley or easement, of the approved water supply: or

(2) To non-residential premises, where the water may be used for human consumption, when a community water supply system having at least fifteen service connections or regularly serving at least twenty-five individuals is deemed available if the boundary of the parcel of property in which the premises is on or will be located on is within two hundred feet, measured along a street, alley or easement, of the approved water supply.

(c) The commissioner of health services, or his or her designee, may grant an exception to subsection (b) above upon a finding that such exception will not adversely affect the purity and adequacy of the supply nor the service of the system or it is determined that:

(1) The community water system which serves the premises is unable to provide such premises with a pure and adequate supply of water: or

(2) If construction problems warrant such action.

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