Groundwater Contacts

Your local code enforcement officer or licensed plumbing inspector.  If your concern is about a septic system affecting ground water, first contact your local code enforcement officer or plumbing inspector.  Additional help is available from DHS Division of Health Engineering at 287-5338.

Department of Environmental Protection (DEP), Bureau of Land & Water Quality
    Some topic areas:  nonpoint source pollution program; questions on direct discharges to Maine waters, excluding septic systems; Site Location of Development program; sand-salt storage; underground injection control program.

Groundwater - John Hopeck 287-7733,  Bill Noble 287-7748
Groundwater education -- Marianne DuBois 287-2115
Groundwater database -- Mark Holden   287-7779
Subsurface Discharge Program, including underground injection control (UIC) program, and sand and salt program - Erich Kluck 287-7814 & 791-8110

Department of Environmental Protection (DEP), Bureau of Remediation and Waste Management
    Some topic areas:  underground storage tank program; sludge spreading; solid waste landfills; hazardous substance sites; licensing of commercial small quantity hazardous waste generators.  Report petroleum product spills (or leaking storage tanks) to the DEP spill hotline at 1-800-482-0777.

Department of Human Services (DHS), Division of Health Engineering, Drinking Water Program (regulates public drinking water supplies).  Drinking water program staff list.

Department of Human Services (DHS), Division of Health Engineering, Subsurface Wastewater Program (regulates septic system installation and siting, and maintains records of the designs of constructed systems) go to this page for contacts.