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Conn. Gen. Stat. § 22a-417 (2025)

(Formerly Sec. 25-26a). 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 section 22a-352.

(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.

(1971, P.A. 191, S. 1–4; P.A. 73-555, S. 3, 10.)

History: P.A. 73-555 deleted former Subsecs. (a) and (b) which had defined “person” and prohibited discharge in Class A waters sewage or other effluent “which is less than tertiary treated”, inserting new Subsec. (a) prohibitions, relettered Subsec. (c) as (b) and included municipalities in applicability and deleted Subsec. (d) providing penalty under Sec. 25-31 for violations; Sec. 25-26a transferred to Sec. 22a-417 in 1983.

Cited. 21 CA 91.

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Cited in 1 case, 1990–1990 · leading case: Pac v. Upjohn Co., 571 A.2d 160 (Conn. App. Ct. 1990).
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Pac v. Upjohn Co., 571 A.2d 160 (Conn. App. Ct. 1990). · cites it 2× “Upjohn claims that the legislature did not expressly make violations of orders subject to the forfeiture provision, and that, therefore, § 22a-438 should apply only to the express statutory prohibitions in chapter 446k, such as General Statutes § 22a-417 (prohibiting the…”
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