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Connecticut public-health working group formed to review septic regulations, sets biweekly meetings

5784376 · September 12, 2025
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A stakeholder working group convened by the Connecticut General Assembly Public Health Committee agreed to a 2 p.m. biweekly meeting schedule, named Jim Paris as a volunteer co-chair, and outlined subgroups to review nitrogen assessments, cost impacts and regulatory process for on-site sewage disposal.

State Rep. Kristin McCarthy Dahe, co-chair of the Connecticut General Assembly Public Health Committee, convened a stakeholder working group to review sewerage disposal and on-site wastewater regulations and said members will meet biweekly at 2 p.m.; the next full meeting was scheduled for Wednesday the 17th (month not specified). Jim Paris, CEO of the Home Builders and Remodelers Association of Connecticut, agreed to serve as one of the group's co-chairs.

The group will review Public Act 25-97 and a set of draft regulations issued earlier this year by the Department of Public Health (DPH), with particular attention to nitrogen-assessment requirements and where those requirements might apply geographically. "We do want to follow the…

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