Connecticut Administrative Code › Title 19 - Public Health and Safety › 13-B › Chapter II - ENVIRONMENTAL HEALTH › Subsurface Sewage Disposal › Section 19-13-B32 - Sanitation of watersheds

Current through July 10, 2024
Unless specifically limited, the following regulations
					 apply to land and watercourses tributary to a public water supply including
					 both surface and ground water sources.
(a) As used in this section, "sewage" shall
				  have the meaning found in section
				  19-13-B20(a) of
				  the public health code: "Toxic mentals" shall be arsenic, barium, cadmium,
				  chromium, lead, mercury and silver and the salts thereof: "high water mark"
				  shall be the upper limit of any land area which water may cover, either
				  standing or flowing, at any time during the year and "watershed" shall mean
				  land which drains by natural or man-made causes to a public drinking water
				  supply intake.
(b) No sewage
				  disposal system, cesspool, privy or other place for the deposit or storage of
				  sewage shall be located within one hundred feet of the high water mark of any
				  reservoir or within fifty feet of the high water mark of any stream, brook, or
				  watercourse, flowing into any reservoir used for drinking purposes.
(c) No sewage disposal system, cesspool,
				  privy or other place for the deposit or storage of sewage shall be located on
				  any watershed, unless such facility is so constructed that no portion of the
				  contents can escape or be washed into the stream or reservoir.
(d) No sewage shall be discharged on the
				  surface of the ground on any watershed.
(e) No stable, pigpen, chicken house or other
				  structure where the excrement of animals or fowls is allowed to accumulate
				  shall be located within one hundred feet of the high water mark of a reservoir
				  or within fifty feet of the high water mark of any watercourse as above
				  mentioned, and no such structure shall be located on any watershed unless
				  provision is made in a manner acceptable to the commissioner of health for
				  preventing manure or other polluting materials from flowing or being washed
				  into such waters.
(f) No toxic
				  metals, gasoline, oil or any pesticide shall be disposed of as a waste into any
				  watercourse tributary to a public drinking water supply or to any ground water
				  identified as supplying a public water supply well.
(g) Where fertilizer is identified as a
				  significant contributing factor to nitrate nitrogen occurring in excess of 8
				  mg/
l
in a public water supply, fertilizer application shall be
				  made only under current guidelines established by the commissioner of health in
				  cooperation with the state commissioner of agriculture, the college of
				  agriculture of the University of Connecticut and the Connecticut agricultural
				  experiment station in order to prevent exceeding the maximum allowable limit in
				  public drinking water of 10.0 mg/
l
for nitrite plus nitrate
				  nitrogen.
(h) Where sodium occurs
				  in excess of 15 mg/
l
in a public drinking water supply, no
				  sodium chlorine shall be used for maintenance of roads, driveways, or parking
				  areas draining to that water supply except under application rates approved by
				  the commissioner of health, designed to prevent the sodium content of the
				  public drinking water from exceeding 20 mg/
l
.
(i) The design of storm water drainage
				  facilities shall be such as to minimize soil erosion and maximize absorption of
				  pollutants by the soil. Storm water drain pipes, except for crossing culverts,
				  shall terminate at least one hundred feet from the edge of an established
				  watercourse unless such termination is impractical, the discharge arrangement
				  is so constructed as to dissipate the flow energy in a way that will minimize
				  the possibility of soil erosion, and the commissioner of health finds that a
				  discharge at a lesser distance is advantageous to stream quality. Special
				  protections shall be taken to protect stream quality during
				  construction.