Conn. Agencies Regs. § 19-13-B32 - Sanitation of watersheds
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.
Notes
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