Sec. 22a-434a. Notice of contaminated wells; abatement of contamination or abandonment of well to be on land records.
Sec. 22a-434a. Notice of contaminated wells; abatement of contamination or
abandonment of well to be on land records. The Commissioner of Environmental
Protection may cause to be filed on the land records in the town wherein the subject
land is located a notice that water from a well on said land has been determined by the
Commissioner of Public Health to create an unacceptable risk of injury to the health or
safety of persons using the water for drinking or other personal or domestic uses. When
the water from said well is determined by the Commissioner of Public Health no longer
to present such a risk, or when the local or district director of health, in accordance with
the provisions of the Connecticut Well Drilling Code adopted pursuant to section 25-128, has verified that the well has been properly abandoned, the Commissioner of Environmental Protection shall cause to be filed on the land records in the town wherein the
notice was previously recorded a notice to that effect.
(P.A. 87-395; P.A. 93-381, S. 9, 39; P.A. 95-257, S. 12, 21, 58.)
History: 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.