Connecticut’s dam owners face additional inspection and reporting obligations under revised safety regulations implemented in February. Picking up where the General Assembly left off with the enactment of legislation in 2013 to better protect against dam failures, the regulations address a range of statutory changes, including requirements that dam owners register their dams if they have not done so already, professionally inspect their dams in accordance with an established regulatory schedule, and develop emergency plans for certain classes of dams. Nearly 3,300 dam owners are affected in one way or another by the new changes.

The General Assembly adopted Public Act No. 13-197, “An Act Concerning the Dam Safety Program and Mosquito Control,” in 2013. The act required registration by Oct. 1, 2015, with the Department of Energy and Environmental Protection for any dam that may, by its failing, endanger life or property. Subsequent owners and co-owners of a dam must also identify themselves to DEEP on the sale or transfer of the property. The law shifted responsibility from DEEP to dam owners to register and inspect dams and mandated that DEEP revise its regulations to formalize the new process. The act also directed DEEP to require owners of high hazard potential and significant hazard potential dams to develop an emergency action plan to monitor the dams and a notification procedure to alert local officials of any potential failure.

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