Draft Guidance for Comment

The Department of Energy and Environmental Protection and the Connecticut Council on Soil and Water Conservation have collaborated to prepare the draft updates for the Connecticut Guidelines for Soil Erosion and Sediment Control and the Connecticut Stormwater Quality Manual and are seeking your feedback! Please consider joining the public comment period by sharing your feedback. Materials for review are linked below.

Feedback is due by close of business March 1, 2023. 

Please email comments to Kathleen.Knight@ct.gov

Informational Webinar

A informational webinar was held on February 22, 2023 2:00-3:30 PM to provide an overview of the drafted revisions and answer any questions. The meeting materials and recording are available below: 

• Presentation
• Meeting Recording

Draft Soil Erosion and Sediment Control Guidelines

Download the Full Draft Soil Erosion and Sediment Control Guidelines

Or choose one or more of the specifics sections to download separately:

• Draft Title Page, Acknowledgements and Table of Contents
• Draft Chapters 1 (Purpose and Function of Guidelines) & 2  (The Erosion and Sedimentation Process)
• Draft Chapters 3 (Erosion and Sediment Control Plans) & 4 (Construction Phasing and Sequencing, and Special Treatments)
• Draft Chapter 5 (The Functional Groups and Measures)
• Draft Appendices 

Draft Connecticut Stormwater Quality Manual

Download the Full Draft Connecticut Stormwater Quality Manual

Or choose one or more of the specific sections to download separately:

• Draft Title Page, Acknowledgements and Table of Contents
• Draft Background Chapters 1-3 (Introduction, Stormwater Impacts, and Preventing and Mitigating Stormwater Impacts)
• Draft Design Chapters (Set 1) 4-7 (Stormwater Management Standards and Criteria, Low Impact Development Site Planning and Design Strategies, Source Control Practices and Pollution Prevention, and Overview of Structural Stormwater Best Management Practices)
• Draft Design Chapters (Set 2) 8-11 (Selection Considerations for Stormwater BMPS, Stormwater Retrofits, General Guidance for Stormwater Infiltration Systems and Proprietary Stormwater BMPs)
• Draft Design Chapters (Set 3) 12 (Stormwater Management Plan) and 13 (Structural Stormwater BMP Guidance)
• Draft Appendices

Content last updated January 24, 2023