Sec. 22a-354g. Findings.
Sec. 22a-354g. Findings. The General Assembly finds that aquifers are an essential natural resource and a major source of public drinking water; that reliance on groundwater will increase because opportunities for development of new surface water supplies
are diminishing due to the rising cost of land and increasingly intense development; that
numerous drinking water wells have been contaminated by certain land use activities
and other wells are now threatened; that protection of existing and future groundwater
supplies demands greater action by state and local government; that a groundwater
protection program requires identification and delineation of present and future water
supplies in stratified drift aquifers supplying drinking water wells; that a comprehensive
and coordinated system of land use regulations should be established that includes state
regulations protecting public drinking water wells located in stratified drift aquifers;
that municipalities with existing or proposed public drinking water wells in stratified
drift aquifers should designate aquifer protection agencies, and that the state should
provide technical assistance and education programs on aquifer protection to ensure a
plentiful supply of public drinking water for present and future generations.
(P.A. 89-305, S. 1, 32.)