2011 Connecticut Code
Title 25 Water Resources. Flood and Erosion Control
Chapter 474 Pollution
Sec. 25-33g. Assessment of water supply conditions and problems. Exclusive service area boundaries.

      Sec. 25-33g. Assessment of water supply conditions and problems. Exclusive service area boundaries. (a) Each water utility coordinating committee, in consultation with the Commissioners of Public Health and Environmental Protection, the Secretary of the Office of Policy and Management and the Department of Public Utility Control, shall develop a preliminary assessment of water supply conditions and problems within the public water supply management area. The committee shall solicit comments on the preliminary assessment from municipalities, regional planning agencies, state agencies and other interested parties and respond to any comment received. The committee shall thereafter prepare a final assessment.

      (b) The committee shall establish preliminary exclusive service area boundaries, based on the final assessment, for each public water system within the management area, and may change such boundaries. In establishing exclusive service area boundaries the committee shall solicit comments on such boundaries from municipalities, regional planning agencies, the Commissioners of Environmental Protection and Public Health, the Department of Public Utility Control, the Secretary of the Office of Policy and Management and other interested persons within the management area and respond to any comment received. If there is no agreement by the committee on such boundaries, or on a change to such boundaries, the committee shall consult with the Department of Public Utility Control. If there is no agreement by the committee after such consultation, the Commissioner of Public Health shall establish or may change such exclusive service area boundaries taking into consideration any water company rights established by statute, special act or administrative decisions. In establishing such boundaries the commissioner shall maintain existing service areas and consider the orderly and efficient development of public water supplies. In considering any change to exclusive service area boundaries, the commissioner shall maintain existing service areas, consider established exclusive service areas, and consider the orderly and efficient development of public water supplies.

      (P.A. 85-535, S. 5, 13; P.A. 86-403, S. 60, 132; P.A. 93-381, S. 9, 39; P.A. 95-257, S. 12, 21, 58; P.A. 02-139, S. 1.)

      History: P.A. 86-403 made technical change in Subsec. (a); P.A. 93-381 replaced commissioner of health services with commissioner of public health and addiction services, effective July 1, 1993; P.A. 95-257 replaced Commissioner and Department of Public Health and Addiction Services with Commissioner and Department of Public Health, effective July 1, 1995; P.A. 02-139 amended Subsec. (b) by adding provisions re authority of committee and commissioner to change exclusive service area boundries.