1. (a) Any person who applies to the Department of Public Health for an exception to the separating distance requirements for the repair or new construction of a subsurface sewage disposal system relative to a water supply well, shall notify all owners of properties with water supply wells affected by the exception request of such application by certified mail, return receipt requested. The notice shall include a copy of the application.
2. (b) A decision approving such an application shall not be an affirmative defense for the owner of the subsurface sewage disposal system to any claim of liability for damages relating to contamination caused by the proximity of a subsurface sewage disposal system to a water supply well.

(P.A. 07-244, S. 7; P.A. 08-184, S. 4.)

History: P.A. 07-244 effective July 11, 2007; P.A. 08-184 amended Subsec. (a) by substituting “an exception to the separating distance requirements for” in place of “authorization relating to” re applications to department, by replacing provision re waiver of proximity requirement with “relative to a water supply”, by changing notification requirements from “abutting” properties to properties “with water supply wells affected by the exception request”, and by deleting provision re department's decision constituting a final decision for purposes of Sec. 4-183, and amended Subsec. (b) by substituting “water supply” for “private residential”.