Remediation Site Clean Up

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• Connecticut Brownfield Remediation & Liability Relief Programs

  DEEP and the Department of Economic and Community Development’s Office of Brownfield Remediation and Redevelopment (OBRD) work closely together to provide liability relief and financial assistance for cleanup and redevelopment of Brownfields in Connecticut.

• Federal Superfund Sites in Connecticut

  Information on the Federal Superfund sites in Connecticut.

• Potable Water Program

  The Potable Water Program assists individuals whose private or public drinking water supply wells may be at risk of becoming contaminated or have become contaminated as a result of human activity. Many resources are included on this page.

• Remediation Division Contacts

  The Remediation Division is organized into five districts (geographic regions along municipal boundaries shown on a map) for all programs.

• Funding Sources

  Potential brownfields funding sources.

• Brownfields Success Stories

  Yankee ingenuity and entrepreneurial spirit is helping Connecticut transform brownfields from burdens to significant assets to their communities, frequently making the communties healthier and more walkable.

• Brownfields in Connecticut

  DEEP’s Remediation Division oversees the assessment and cleanup of brownfields, sites that are abandoned or underutilized due to the presence or potential presence of pollution, to return them to productive use.

• Federal Brownfields Resources

  Information to assist in obtaining EPA grants and liability protections for brownfield sites in Connecticut.

• Voluntary Remediation Program CGS 22a-133y Fact Sheet

  This Voluntary Remediation Program (VRP) is an elective program for property owners to expedite the remediation of certain contaminated properties in an area where groundwater is classified as GB or GC.

• Analytical Methods for Petroleum Releases

  The Extractable Total Petroleum Hydrocarbons (ETPH), Extractable Petroleum Hydrocarbons (EPH), and Volatile Petroleum Hydrocarbons (VPH) are analytical methods that are commonly used in Connecticut to characterize petroleum releases.

• LEP Board - Legislation Advisories

  LEP Board Legislation Advisories

• LEP Board Disciplinary Actions

  List of disciplinary actions the LEP Board has taken. Copies of the LEP Board's final disciplinary actions, including reprimands, consent orders, voluntary surrenders, suspension or revocation of licenses are available.

• Covenant Not to Sue

  A Covenant Not to Sue is an agreement between DEEP and a prospective purchaser or owner of a polluted site that DEEP will not institute a claim against a party who has or will clean up that property.

• Ecological Risk Assessment Guidance

  Ecological Risk Assessment is a structured scientific evaluation of the potential for harm to occur to ecological receptors as a result of exposure to some stressor, often an exposure to chemical contamination.

• Technical Impracticability Variance

  A Technical Impracticability Variance is a remedial option provided under the Connecticut Remediation Standard Regulations (RSRs) when non-aqueous phase liquids cannot be contained or removed in accordance with Section 22a-133k-2(g) of the RSRs, remediation to the extent technically practicable has reduced the concentration of pollutants in groundwater to steady-state concentrations, or as otherwise specified in EPA guidance.