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Convincing Your Town to Adopt a Wellhead Protection Ordinance

An Introduction to a Model Ordinance and Best Management Practices

Table of contents

• Introduction
• How Groundwater Works
• Economic Impacts of Groundwater Contamination
• What Types of Land Uses Have the Potential to Contaminate Groundwater
• The Best Management Practices (BMP’s)
• The Model Ordinance
• Prohibited Land Uses
• Another Tool to Protect Groundwater Resources
• References

   

Prepared By:

Maine Rural Water Association, Brunswick, Maine
under a grant administered by the Maine Drinking Water Program

April 2005

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