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.