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Scheduled for upgrades, improvements and maintenance are the Metropolitan District in Hartford; the Greater New Haven Water ... These aging sewage-treatment plants burdened by climate change need ...
This is a list of Superfund sites in Connecticut designated under the Comprehensive Environmental Response, Compensation, and Liability Act (CERCLA) environmental law. The CERCLA federal law of 1980 authorized the United States Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) to create a list of polluted locations requiring a long-term response to clean up hazardous material contaminations. [1]
The South Central Connecticut Regional Water Authority is a non-profit public corporation and political subdivision of the State of Connecticut, but its core business was originally established and operated as the New Haven Water Company, a private business.
The Great Neck Water Pollution Control District was established in 1914. [2] [3] A major upgrade project took place in 1990, during which the district's sewage treatment capacity was increased to 3.8 million gallons per day.
A DEQ survey after the EPA announced the new forever chemical standards found that 300 water systems across the state have elevated PFAS levels, impacting 42 municipal water systems that serve ...
After section 208's failure to control NPS water pollution, in 1987 Congress passed the Water Quality Act which included a new section 319 to address the problem of nonpoint sources. [30] This provision, also non-regulatory, authorizes EPA to fund demonstration programs and provide technical assistance to state and local governments.
Perry’s New Haven and Stonebridge neighborhoods have faced water access outages and boil water advisories for years. The The city just completed a new system they hope will fully resolve the issue.
In 1948 Congress passed the Federal Water Pollution Control Act (FWPCA). [14] The law authorized the Surgeon General and the Public Health Service to develop programs to combat pollution that was harming surface and underground water sources, but did not create any new regulatory or enforcement authority for pollution control. The FWPCA also ...