DDW-2024-007301

BE If ORDAINED by the Town Council of Meadow Town duly assembled and it is hereby ordained by the authority of same that the

bUowing ordinance known as the Drinking Water Source Protection Ordinance is adopted and made a part of the Code of Ordinance of the

Town, to wit:

Section 1. Short dtle and purpose.

(a) This ordinance shall be known as the "Drinking Water Source Protection Ordinance."

(b) The purpose of this ordinance is to insure the provision of a safe and sanitary drinking water supply for the Meadow Town

Water System by the establishment of drinking water source protection zones surrounding the wellhead for the well which

is the supply source for die Meadow Town water system and by the designation and regulation of property uses and

conditions which may be maintained within such zones.

Section 2. Definitions. When used in this ordinance the following words and phrases shall have the meanings given in this Section:

(a) Design standard - means a control which is implemented by a potential contamination source to prevent discharges to the

ground water. Spill protection is an example of a design standard.

(b) Land management strategies - means zoning and non-zoning controls which include, but are not limited to, the following:

zoning and subdivision ordinances, site plan reviews, design and operating standards, source prohibitions, purchase of

property and development rights, public education programs, ground-water monitoring, household hazardous waste

collection programs, water conservation programs, memoranda of understanding, written contracts and agreements, and

so forth.

(c) Pollution source - means point source discharges of contaminants to ground water or potential discharges of the liquid

forms .of "extremely hazardous substances" which are stored in containers in excess of "applicable threshold planning

quantities" as specified in SARA Tide m. Examples of possible pollution sources include, but are not limited to, the

following: storage facilities that Store die liquid forms of extremely hazardous substances, septic tanks, drain fields, class

V underground injection wells, landfills, open dumps, landfming of sludge and septage, manure piles, salt piles, pit privies,

and animal feeding operations with more than ten animal units. The following clarify the definition of pollution source:

(1) Animal feeding operation - means a lot or faciUty where the following conditions are met: animals have been or will

be stabled or confined and fed or maintained for a total of 45 days or more in any 12 mondi period, and crops,

vegetation forage growth, or post-harvest residues are not sustained in the normal growing season over any portion

of the lot or facility. Two or more animal feeding operations under common ownership are considered to be a single

feeding operation if they adjoin each other, if they use a common area, or if they uSe a common system for the disposal

of wastes. -
(2) Animal unit - means a unit of measurement for any animal feeding operation calculated by adding the following

numbers: the number of slaughter and feeder cattie multiplied by l.Q, plus the number of mature dairy cattle multiplied

by 1.4, plus die number of swine weighing over 55 pounds multiplied by 0.4, plus the number of sheep multiplied by

0,1, plus the number of horses multiplied by 2.0,

(3) Extremely hazardous substances - means those substances which are identified in the Sec. 302(EHS) column of the

"TITLE III LIST OF LISTS - Consolidated List of Chemicals Subject to Reporting Under SARA Title III," (EPA

560/4-91-011).

(d) Potential contamination source - means any facility or site which employs an activity or procedure which may potentially

contaminate ground water. A pollution source is also a potential contamination source.

(e) Regulatory agency - means any governmental agency With jurisdiction over hazardous waste as defined herein.

® Sanitary landfill - means a disposal site where solid wastes, mcluding putrescible wastes, or hazardous wastes, are disposed

of on land by placing earth cover thereon.

Septic tank/drain-field systems - means a system which is comprised of a septic tank and a drain-field which accepts

domestic wastewater from buildings or facilities for subsurface treatment and disposal. By their design, septic

tank/drain-field system discharges cannot be controlled with design standards.

(h) Wellhead - means the upper terminal of a well, including adapters, ports, seals, valves and other attachments.

iction 3. Establishment of drinking water source protection zones. There are hereby established use districts to be known as zones one, two,

ree, and four of the chinking water source protection area, identified and described as follows:

(a) Zone one is the area within a 100-foot radius from the wellhead.

(b) Zone two is the area within a 250-day ground-water time of travel to the wellhead, the boundary of the aquifer(s) which

supplies water to the ground-water source, or tlie ground-water divide, whichever is closer.

(c) Zone three is the area within a 3-3'ear ground-water time of travel to the wellhead, or margin of the collection area, tlie

boundary of the aquifer(s) which supplies water to the ground-water source, or the ground-water divide, whichever is closer.

(d) Zone four is the area within a 15-year ground-water time of travel to the wellhead, the boundary of the aquifer(s) which

supplies! water to the ground-water source, or the ground-water divide, whichever is closer.

ction 4. Permitted uses. The following uses shall be permitted within drinking water source protection zones:

(a) Airy use permitted within existing agiicultural, single family residential, multi-family residential, and commercial districts

so long as uses conform to die rules and regulations of the regulatory agencies,

(b) Any other open land use where any building located on the property is incidental and accessory to die primary open land

use.

ction 5. Prohibited uses. The following uses or conditions shall be and are hereby prohibited within drinking water source protection zones,

lether or not such use or condition may otherwise be oruinaiily included as a part of a use permitted under Section 4 ofthe ordinance.

(a) Zone one - The location of any pollution source as defined herein.

(b) Zone two - The location of a pollution source unless its contaminated discharges can be controlled with design standards.

(c) Zone three and four - The location of a potential contamination source unless it can be controlled through land

management strategies.

ction 6. Administration. The policies and procedures for administration of any source protection zone established under this ordinance,

rfuding without limitation those applicable to nonconfonning uses, exception, enforcement and penalties, shall be the same as provided

the existing zoning ordinance for the County, as the same is presently enacted or may from time to time be amended.

This Ordinance shall be effective as of^ftg* /£~
. All ordinances or parts of ordinances in conflict herewith shall

it be and the same are hereby repealed. ' I

ENACTED AND ADOPTED this (£~"dav of 7^9^-. „M"Jtm.2.

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