This is a wake-up call for our general assembly that our water must remain in the public trust and that there is an incredible amount of work to be done to ensure that our water remains a public trust resource.

We read the CT Viewpoints editorial “No net loss!’ Don’t’ cut down forests to build solar sites” published on Dec. 1 with interest. We here at Rivers Alliance of Connecticut, a nonprofit environmental advocacy group committed to protecting all the waters of Connecticut, sent a letter to the Department of Energy and Environmental Protection (DEEP) requesting that Commissioner Katie Scharf Dykes impose a moratorium on solar development on agricultural and forested land until adequate guidelines for siting are established.