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Convincing Your Town to Adopt a Wellhead Protection Ordinance

An Introduction to a Model Ordinance and Best Management Practices


 

Prohibited Land Uses

Non-Agricultural Chemical Use, Storage, Handling

  • Dry Cleaner, Automobile Repair/Body Shop, Petroleum, Storage(>500 gal), Fertilizer Dealers, Boat Yards, Photo Shops
Image of a customer at a dry cleaning business

Agricultural Chemical Use, Storage & Handling

  • Pesticide Application, Petroleum-Based Fertilizer Application, Manure Spreading, Beneficial Use of Residuals

Storage, Handling & Processing of Solid Waste

  • Transfer Station/Landfill, Wood waste/Agricultural Cull Piles
Photo of a landfill

Vehicular Storage, Use

  • Commercial Overnight Parking, Maintenance & Refueling of Vehicles/Equipment, Fuel Storage in Gravel Pits/Rock Mining Area
Photo of a parking lot

Bulk Storage of Leachable Material

  • Including, but NOT limited to Concrete, Asphalt, Coal and Salt

Mining

  • Sand and Gravel Mining, Rock, Metallic Ore
Photo of a mining operation

Subsurface Injection

  • New Subsurface Wastewater Disposal System >1000gals, Discharge of Commercial or Industrial Wastewater or Washwater into Septic System (including Car Wash, Laundromat, etc.) (http://www.awwarf.org/research/topicsandprojects/execSum/2778.aspx), Replacement or Expansion of Subsurface Wastewater Disposal System, Open Ended Floor Drains or Sumps (Sump Pumps)


Storm Water Management

  • New Impervious Area, Detention, Retention, Infiltration

Commercial Water Production Wells

Utility Corridors

Essential Operations

  • Of the Water District or other Official Safety or Utility Entity

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