What are source protection plans?
Justice O’Connor suggested a minimum”list of ingredients” that should be included in watershed-based source protection plans: • A water budget for the watershed, or a plan for developing a water budget where sufficient data are not yet available, • The identification of all significant water withdrawals, including municipal intakes, • Landuse maps for the watershed, • The identification of wellhead areas, • Maps of areas of groundwater vulnerability, that include characteristics such as depth to bedrock, depth to water table, the extent of aquifers and recharge rates, • The identification of all major point and non-point sources of contaminants in the watershed, • A model that describes the fate of pollutants in the watershed, • A program for identifying and properly decommissioning abandoned wells, excavations, quarries, and other shortcuts that can introduce contaminants into aquifers, • The identification of areas where a significant direct threat exists to the safety of drinking wa
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