Connecticut Administrative Code › Title 16 - Public Service Companies › 262m - Certificates of Convenience and Necessity for Small Water Companies › Section 16-262m-1 - Definitions

Current through July 10, 2024
(a) "Community Water System" or "System," as
			 used herein, shall mean a system which supplies to the public piped water for
			 human consumption, if such system has at least fifteen and no more than two
			 hundred fifty service connections or regularly serves an average of twenty-five
			 to one thousand persons daily at least sixty days out of the year, when such
			 water is supplied as part of a lease or contract. A community water system
			 includes but is not limited to, (1) any collection, treatment, storage, and
			 distribution facilities under control of an operator of such system and used
			 primarily in connection with such system, and (2) any collection or
			 pre-treatment storage facilities not under such control which are used
			 primarily in connection with such system. Community water systems may include,
			 but are not limited to service to: residential sub-divisions, cluster-housing
			 projects, homeowners associations, municipalities, tax districts, duplexes,
			 townhouses, apartment buildings or complexes, residential and office
			 condominium developments, elderly housing projects, convalescent homes, trailer
			 or mobile home parks, industrial parks, shopping centers or malls, large
			 manufacturing buildings and other commercial enterprises.
(b) "Feasible Interconnections," as used
			 herein, shall mean that the extension of an existing utility's water mains is
			 considered feasible to serve a proposed project with at least fifteen service
			 connections or twenty-five persons if the developer's investment for such
			 extension, including service connections and appurtenances, is less than $5,000
			 (construction costs only) per dwelling or office unit and if there is
			 sufficient supply and storage facilities to accommodate the anticipated demand
			 available from the existing utility. If there is insufficient supply and
			 storage available from the existing utility, the cost of developing such
			 facilities may be included in the water main extension proposal, as additional
			 items.
(c) "Duplication of Water
			 Facilities" as used herein, shall mean that plant and equipment of a community
			 water system which the Department of Public Utility Control determines is
			 substantially repetitive to the plant and equipment of another water purveyor
			 or community water system within one linear mile of the proposed project, as
			 measured along public or private roadways. Geological factors such as elevation
			 differences, slope of the land and depth to bedrock will be considered in
			 determining duplication of facilities.
(d) "Expansion," as used herein, shall mean
			 the following:
(1) a five percent increase in
			 the number of service connections to be served by a community water system,
			 above the number allowed under an existing certificate or permit issued by the
			 Department of Public Utility Control and the Department of Health Services, or
(2) a five percent increase in the
			 number of service connections to be served by a community water system above
			 the number served as of the effective date of these regulations.