AN ACT CONCERNING LATTINS COVE

This Bill/Public Act passed in 1993 (Public Act-00332) prohibiting any maintenance work on Lattins Cove Boat Launch Ramp due to alleged complaints by neighbors about launching traffic. Part of a very long amendment to a Sales Tax bill (H.B. No. 6605), Sec. 18 states “The department of environmental protection shall not expend any funds for the expansion of the public boat ramp at Lattins Cove on Lake Candlewood in Danbury.”

Since then NO work (dredging, etc.) has been done on the ramp. Candlewood is the LARGEST inland waterbody in the state and has been a MAJOR fisheries management project for DEP. How then can this provision stand which prohibits the public adequate and safe access?? We urge ALL fishermen and other sportsmen to contact their legislators to repeal this parochial statute which is contrary to the public interest.