Connecticut General Statutes 22a-417 – Discharge of sewage into tributaries of water supply impoundments or Salmon River
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(a) No person or municipality shall discharge any sewage into any waters of the state which are tributary to an existing water supply impoundment or any proposed water supply impoundment identified in the long-range plan for management of water resources prepared and adopted pursuant to § 22a-352.
Terms Used In Connecticut General Statutes 22a-417
- discharge: means the emission of any water, substance or material into the waters of the state, whether or not such substance causes pollution. See Connecticut General Statutes 22a-423
- municipality: means any metropolitan district, town, consolidated town and city, consolidated town and borough, city, borough, village, fire and sewer district, sewer district and each municipal organization having authority to levy and collect taxes or make charges for its authorized function. See Connecticut General Statutes 22a-423
- person: means any individual, partnership, association, firm, limited liability company, corporation or other entity, except a municipality, and includes the federal government, the state or any instrumentality of the state, and any officer or governing or managing body of any partnership, association, firm or corporation or any member or manager of a limited liability company. See Connecticut General Statutes 22a-423
- sewage: means human and animal excretions and all domestic and such manufacturing wastes as may tend to be detrimental to the public health. See Connecticut General Statutes 22a-423
- waters: means all tidal waters, harbors, estuaries, rivers, brooks, watercourses, waterways, wells, springs, lakes, ponds, marshes, drainage systems and all other surface or underground streams, bodies or accumulations of water, natural or artificial, public or private, which are contained within, flow through or border upon this state or any portion thereof. See Connecticut General Statutes 22a-423
(b) No person or municipality shall discharge into the Salmon River or any of its tributaries any sewage or any other effluent which is less than tertiary treated.