Ordinances & Supporting Materials

Groundwater Ordinances

• Stratham, New Hampshire Aquifer Protection District
  This ordinance includes a cap on impervious cover at a site as a way to promote stormwater infiltration and recharge.

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• Hernando County, Florida Groundwater Protection and Siting Ordinance
  This ordinance seeks to protect aquifers through the establishment of a zone of protection system based on location and time of travel for groundwater.

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• Salt Lake City, Utah Groundwater Source Protection Overlay District
  This ordinance creates an overlay district that uses four distinct protection zones based on the time of travel. This ordinance also includes language dealing with the use of septic systems within the protection zones.

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• Lexington, Kentucky Sinkhole Ordinance
  Topography plays an important role in groundwater recharge. This ordinance seeks to prevent groundwater contamination by regulating land uses near sinkhole areas.

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• Weston, Wisconsin Wellhead Protection District
  This ordinance seeks to protect the potable drinking water supply for the town wells through prohibition of land uses identified as risks by geologic surveys.

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Surface Water Ordinances

• Tahoe Regional Planning Agency Source Water Protection
  This ordinance seeks to control impacts to wells, lake intakes, and springs through required plan review and a fixed radius zone of protection.

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• Buffalo, Minnesota Shoreland Management Overlay District
  This ordinance seeks to protect lake water quality through shoreland riparian buffer requirements and setback regulations for land uses.

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• Greensboro, North Carolina Water Supply Watershed District Overlay
  A reservoir protection ordinance that creates two distinct overlay districts with protection requirements based on distance from the reservoir.

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• County of York, Virginia Watershed Management and Protection Area Overlay District
  This ordinance uses a watershed approach to preventing contamination of surface drinking water supplies through land use regulation and impact study requirements.

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• Town of Skaneateles Lake Watershed District
  This ordinance creates an overlay district for two local lakes that seeks to protect water quality in accordance with the City of Syracuse water reservoir regulations.

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