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Integrated Water Resource Management
Connecticut is using a new approach called Integrated Water Resource Management as the basis to address the existing goals of protecting and restoring Connecticut's waters.
Stream Flow Background Documents
Connecticut stream flow standards and regulations data links and background documents
This guidance was developed for landowners, industrial, commercial and residential property managers; charities, religious, civic and fraternal groups and organizations, public and private schools and educational institutions, municipal officials, and other interested parties regarding fund raising vehicle wash events and effective water pollution control.
Regulating Water Usage and Water Discharges
Regulating Water Usage and Water Discharges
Canada Goose Agricultural Damage Control
Information about obtaining a permit for controlling Canada geese causing agricultural damage.
Addressing conflicts with coyotes.
Access interactive CHEAPR program statistics.
Fishing Line Recycling Locations
Find fishing line recycling stations at inland and coastal sites around the state.
Anadromous alewives are important forage fish for large gamefish such as striped bass and bluefish as well as many other animals, including osprey and marine mammals.
They were first observed in Connecticut in the early 1980s at a few disjunct sites in the lower Housatonic and upper Quinebaug River drainages. Populations are expanding in both of these drainages, and individuals have recently been discovered in the Connecticut River drainage as well.
Connecticut’s smallest pike species. They are typically mistaken for small chain pickerel by anglers.
Learn about Connecticut's top predator and how the Wildlife Division is surveying the state's bobcat population.
Catfish and bullheads have eight barbels around the mouth: two off the snout, two off the corners of the mouth, and four under the chin. These long barbels give the impression of whiskers, hence the name “catfishes.”
The channel catfish is the state’s largest catfish species.
Climate Change
Addressing climate change presents residents, businesses, nonprofits, and municipalities a chance to create, evolve, and maintain a sustainable environment, a robust economy, and a higher quality of life today and tomorrow.
Recycling
Connecticut disposes of 2.4 million tons of trash annually, an estimated 1,370 pounds of trash per person per year. That's too much! Learn more about how we manage our waste and how to help us move toward more waste reduction, reuse and recycling.
DEEP Programs & Services
DEEP conserves, improves and protects Connecticut's natural resources and the environment, and makes cheaper, cleaner and more reliable energy available to people and businesses. Find DEEP's programs and services here.