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Krog planners brief commission on watershed protection tools for drinking‑water safety
Summary
Krog planners Heidi Samoker and Sonia Carrizales presented a Western Connecticut Council of Governments study showing that about 80% of land in public water supply watersheds is privately owned and that Connecticut lacks state riparian buffer requirements; they highlighted appendices with model zoning language and stormwater screening matrices.
Heidi Samoker, principal planner at Krog, and Sonia Carrizales, environmental planner at Krog, presented findings from a watershed protection study produced by the Western Connecticut Council of Governments and oriented commissioners to resources communities can use to protect drinking‑water supplies.
Samoker stressed that roughly 80% of land in a public water supply watershed is privately owned, so local zoning and land‑use controls are often the only protections for those recharge areas. "If it's privately owned, the only protection is…
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