
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.
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RCRA Corrective Action, Closure, and Stewardship
Connecticut is authorized for RCRA Closure and Corrective Action, which requires facility owners and operators to clean up properties that have treated, stored, or disposed of hazardous waste. Information regarding financial assurance, ecological risks, RCRA closure, and various guidance documents.
List of Contaminated or Potentially Contaminated Sites in Connecticut
Information regarding contaminated sites or potentially contaminated sites in Connecticut.
Federal Superfund Sites in Connecticut
Information on the Federal Superfund sites in Connecticut.
Remediation Standard Regulations Fact Sheet
Connecticut's Remediation Standard Regulations (RSRs) provide detailed guidance and standards that may be used at any site to determine whether or not remediation of contamination is necessary to protect human health and the environment.
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.
The Remediation Standard Regulations that established the requirements for the remediation of contamination within Connecticut were organized by environmental media and relied, in part, on risk-based criteria that established remediation goals for various contaminants typically found at remediation sites.
Remediation Division Documents
How to best search for CT DEEP Remediation Division information and files online.
Connecticut Department of Energy & Environmental Protection Remediation Division guidance documents
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.
Trichloroethylene Developmental Risks
As a result of the increased understanding of the developmental risks posed by TCE, the Connecticut Department of Public Health (CT DPH) and Department of Energy and Environmental Protection (DEEP) developed joint guidance in February 2015.
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.