Connecticut DEP

Department of Energy and Environmental Protection

• This four (4) channel low band system can be used by all DEEP Environmental Conservation staff. The most frequent users are the State Environmental Conservation Police (EnCon, formerly Conservation Officers) and the State Parks.
• A number of vehicles used by State agencies are equipped with DEEP radios for emergency use. Typically they are vehicles leased from the Department of Administrative Services. Use of the radios by non-DEEP staff has continually dropped to virtually nothing now that everyone has a cell phone.
• DEEP EC Emergency Dispatch (CO) is located at DEEP Headquarters in Hartford, CT.
• To report violations to DEEP (hunting, fishing, or any illegal/suspicious activity on State land, call:
  (860) 424-3333
• DEEP Website

DEEP System Frequencies

Channel	Frequency	Type	Tone	Description
1	44.6800		114.8	Parks, Forestry, Haz-Mat, K9, Eastern District EnCon Police
2	44.7200		114.8	Haz-Mat Alternate, EnCon as necessary (little activity)
3	44.7600		114.8	Shoreline Parks, Marine District EnCon Police
4	44.9200		114.8	Western District EnCon Police & Lake Authorities
5	151.3550		114.8	NEW On scene channel, Shoreline Parks, Marine District EnCon Police
6	171.5750	R	114.8	NEW Repeater operations, Shoreline Parks, Marine District EnCon Police
7	172.2750	S	114.8/CSQ	EnCon Police Portables/Mobile Extender

• Do not use a PL in your scanner for the extender frequency or you will only hear the portables.
• If you are near the coast, you may pick up NY EnCon activity from Long Island on the mobile extender frequency with a PL of 94.8

DEEP EC Unit Numbers

Number Series	User
100 - 200's	Park Supervisors/Possibly other administrative staff
300's	Aquarion Water Company Police
600's	EnCon Police
700's	Seasonal Conservation Officers
800's	Lake Authority Marine Patrol
900's	HAZMAT/Spill Response

• EnCon Police officers also have CSP radios in their vehicles. If necessary, they will call in to whichever Troop they are in the area of.
• Since CSP already have their own 600 number series, EnCon officers call in as 6 + their own number (example: 631 would call in as 6631).
• DEEP HAZMAT/Spill Response personnel have CSP portables and identify with 6 + their 900 unit number.

Connecticut Lake Authorities

• Lake Authorities are essentially corporations formed by two or more towns which have within their territorial limits a body of state water and are authorized by CGS 7-151a.
• Lake Patrol Officers are appointed by the Commissioner of the DEP and are authorized to carry a baton, firearm, or both upon completion of the proper training. CGS 7-151b
• Lake Patrol Officers are supervised by the EnCon sergeant responsible for the area the lake is in.

Lake Authority Frequencies

• Lake Authority Marine Patrol units on Lake Housatonic and Candlewood Lake contact DEEP Dispatch on DEEP Ch. 4
• Marine Patrol Units are typically only active during the recreation season (Memorial Day Weekend - Labor Day).

Frequency	Type	Tone	Authority (Member Towns)	Active Marine Patrol	DEP Law Enforcement District
			Bantam Lake Authority (Litchfield & Morris)	Unknown	Western
DEEP 4 Nextel			Candlewood Lake Authority (Brookfield, Danbury, New Fairfield, New Milford & Sherman)	Yes	Western
			Gardner Lake Authority (Bozrah, Montville & Salem)	Yes¹	Eastern
155.2950		131.8	Lake Housatonic Authority (Derby, Oxford, Seymour and Shelton)	Yes	Western
			Lake Lillinonah Authority (Bridgewater, Brookfield, New Milford, Newtown & Roxbury)	Yes¹	Western
			Lake Waramaug Authority (Kent, Warren & Washington)	Yes¹	Western
Local PD's CTSP			Lake Zoar Authority (Monroe, Newtown, Oxford & Southbury)	Yes	Western
			Rogers Lake Authority (Lyme & Old Lyme)	Yes¹	Eastern/Marine

¹: According to web sources. Assistance with confirmations would be appreciated.

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