Water

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• Volunteer Water Monitoring Program Overview

  CT DEEP encourages groups and individuals interested in helping to conserve and protect our water resources to become volunteer water monitors. The Volunteer Water Monitoring Program utilizes a three-tiered approach to volunteer water quality monitoring, which is also increasingly referred to as 'citizen science' or 'community science'. The three-tiered approach allows for participation by volunteers having a wide range of skills and interest levels.

• Dam Safety

• CT Guidelines on Erosion and Sediment Control - Errata Sheet

• Water Quality Classification Maps

  Water Quality Classification Maps by Town.

• Dam Registration and Dam Recordation

• Ambient Benthic Macroinvertebrate Monitoring

  The DEEP Water Monitoring Group has used benthic macroinvertebrate communities to help characterize stream and river water quality since the mid-1970s. Benthic macroinvertebrates are animals without backbones, who inhabit the bottom of rivers and streams, as well as many other waterbody types. These organisms are very well studied and have a long history of use as indicators of water quality. Certain types, including mayflies, stoneflies, and caddisflies, can survive only in the cleanest water quality conditions. Other major groups of macroinvertebrates are true flies, beetles, worms, crustaceans, and dragonflies.

• Cold Water Stream Habitat Map

  Cold Water Stream Habitat Map

• How Are Inland Wetlands and Watercourses Defined

  How Inland Wetlands and Watercourses are defined in Connecticut

• Water Quality Standards and Classification

  The Connecticut Water Quality Standards establish the water quality goals of Connecticut's waterbodies and form the foundation of Connecticut's water management programs.

• National Flood Insurance Program (NFIP)

  Information about the National Flood Insurance Program

• Surface Water Quality

• 2013 Proposed Water Quality Standards Regulations

  Previous (2013) proposed changes to the Connecticut Water Quality Standards.

• Watershed Based Plans

  explanation of 319 NPS watershed based plans

• Vernal Pools

  Provides a variety of online resources that review vernal pool ecology.

• MIW Training - Video 3

  Municipal Inland Wetlands Agency Training Video Series 3