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Learn how the Connecticut Fisheries Division monitors lobster populations in Long Island Sound.
Requesting APS and Alternative Criteria
The Remediation Standard Regulations (RSRs), contain numeric cleanup standards for 88 substances. When a contaminant at a site is not one of the 88 substances, Additional Polluting Substance (APS) criteria must be approved by the Commissioner to complete cleanup at the site under the RSRs. When the RSRs contain criteria for a substance but a party believes different numeric criteria are appropriate for a specific site, that party may request approval of Alternative Criteria.
The Remediation Division of the Bureau of Water Protection and Land Reuse is proposing amendments to Sections 22a-133k-1 through 22a-133k-3 of the Regulations of Connecticut State Agencies, the Remediation Standard Regulations (RSRs). The RSRs specify the standards for the remediation of environmental pollution in soil and groundwater.
Connecticut's shore belongs to the people.
View points of coastal access in Connecticut.
In many homes, the indoor air is often more polluted than the outdoor air.
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An Engineered Control is a permanent physical structure designed to safely isolate pollutants which would otherwise not comply with the self-implementing remedial options allowed in the Connecticut Remediation Standard Regulations (RSRs).
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.
Learn about the destructive southern pine beetle and its management in Connecticut
Forest Practices Advisory Board
CT Forest Practices Advisory Board