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Connecticut Department ofEnergy and Environmental Protection

Connecticut Department of Energy and Environmental Protection

The View from DEEP

Dennis J. Greci, P.E.Supervising Sanitary EngineerBureau of Water Protection and Land Reuse

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The Clean Water Fund

• Call for Projects FY 2014-2015– Submissions currently being reviewed–Draft Priority List for public comment by late

Nov 2013–Approx $ 1.8 Billion in short-term needs

identified in submissions received to date.


Clean Water Fund : Available Resources

(in $ Millions ) FY 2012 FY2013 FY2014 FY2015

Revenue Bonds

180.0 180.0 318.0 260.8

General Obligation Bonds

90.6 92.0 67.0 218.0

Total 270.6 272.0 385.0 478.8


CWF: Guidance documents online• Updated eligibility memos on utility relocation

and roadway restoration• Draft memo regarding use of Project Labor

Agreements (PLAs); comments due by November 12th

• Other memos in development:– Green infrastructure eligibility– Nutrient reduction eligibility (revised to include

phosphorus)


NPDES Permits

• Updates to renewed permits include:–Disinfection criteria• Discharges to fresh water now using e. coli• Discharges to marine water using enterococci

and fecal coliform

–Phosphorus–CSO Monitoring–NetDMR


Sewage Right-to-Know

• Sewage “Right to Know” Act (PA 12-11)– Affects information distribution and notification

after sewage bypass or CSO event– Takes some requirements that were in NPDES

Permit and makes them state law.– Requires DEEP to post maps and impact data of

areas potentially affected by CSO events.– Requires DEEP to post impact data regarding

sewage spills.


• Website active as of June 2013

• Shows outfalls and overflow locations

• Coming 2014: second map will show bypass events (SSOs)


Nitrogen Trading Program

• Nitrogen trading program:– Value of Credit: somewhere in the $6 per pound

range– Report will be finalized shortly

• Nitrogen General Permit– Expires end of 2014– Staff working on renewing permit


Operator Certification

• Next Test is Jan 8, 2014– applications due by Nov 22, 2013

• Reduced number of testing sites (4 to 3)– Three Rivers CC (Norwich)– Naugatuck Valley CC (Waterbury)– Tunxis CC (Farmington)

• Summer exam will be July, 2014.


Operator Certification test results• Results for Summer exam 2013

• Class 1: 25 of 43 passed– (21 of 33 OIT) (4 of 8 repeatees)

• Class 2: 17 of 28 passed– (5 of 12 OIT) (3 of 7 repeatees)

• Class 3: 8 of 23 passed – (5 of 9 OIT) (3 of 13 repeatees)

• Class 4: 4 of 11 passed – (3 of 9 repeatees)


Legislation: Public Act 12-155• Gives CWF the authority to make components of all

phosphorus upgrades eligible for 30% grants.• Work groups are currently meeting to discuss detailed

topics– scientific methods, – non-point sources, and – municipal implementation

• Presentations and schedules are available on DEEP website:

• http://www.ct.gov/deep/phosphorus


Governor’s Executive Order 37• State is soliciting public comments

on regulations that are “…outdated, unnecessarily burdensome, insufficient, or ineffective.”

• Email suggestions to:•

[email protected]• Or visit the website at

www.governor.ct.gov/regulations


Transformation: Municipal Leads


For further information on many of these topics, please see the Municipal Facilities website:

www.ct.gov/deep/municipalwastewater


Questions?

SEASONS GREETINGS !

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Documents

environmental protection

repeatees slide

phosphorus slide

renewing permit slide

land reuse slide

bypass events ssos slide

repeatees class

marine water