Protecting Springfields drinking water is everybodys business'

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• Protecting Springfields drinking water is
  everybodys business.

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Drinking Water Protection Areas
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Drinking Water Protection Areas

• Time of Travel Zones or (TOTZ) Defined
• The approximate time it would take a pollutant
  entering the soil to reach a public well.
• The closer to a well - the less time it would
  take to reach it.
• 0-1yr 1-5yr 5-10yr 10-20yr

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Drinking Water Protection Plan10 Goals and
Management Strategies

• Implement A Public Education Program
• Adopt A Drinking Water Protection Overlay Zone
• Develop And Implement a Ground Water Monitoring
  Program

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Drinking Water Protection Plan10 Goals and
Management Strategies

• 4. Enhance The Existing Hazardous Waste
  Collection Program
• 5. Develop And Implement A Septic System
  Upgrade/Maintenance Program
• 6. Use And Enhance Existing Spill Response Plan

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Drinking Water Protection Plan10 Goals and
Management Strategies

• 7. Form Public Private Partnerships
• 8. Implement A Water Conservation Program
• 9. Use Property Purchase/Donation to Provide
  Protection Areas

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Drinking Water Protection Plan10 Goals and
Management Strategies

• 10. Consider Additional Recommendations
• a. Intergovernmental Coordination
• b. Stormwater Management
• c. Abandon Wells
• d. Evaluation Of New Well Sites

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City Code/Ordinances To Protect Drinking Water

• Springfield Drinking Water Protection Plan (DWPP)
  - 1999
• Management Goals Strategies
• Recommendations
• Contingency Plans
• Article 17- New Development -2000
• Implementation
• Time of Travel Zones (Overlay District)
• Zoning Changes

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Land Use Development Code, Article 17 - 2000

• (Applies to new/expanding businesses)
• Requirements
• Storage, labeling, training
• Restrictions
• Quantities, USTs (highest risk areas)
• Prohibitions
• DNAPL chemicals

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SUBs New Slow Sand Filter Treatment Facility
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SUBs Area of Concern

• Watershed
• 1,364 sq. Miles
• DWPP Addendum Management area (2002)
• 1,000 ft. setback
• 28 miles upstream
• Includes all perennial tributaries
• 47 sq. miles

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Proposed Springfield Drinking Water Protection
Ordinance Amendment to Municipal Code Chapter 5
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Proposed Ordinance

• Includes Article 17 standards and exemptions.
• Applies to existing businesses out to the 10 Year
  Time of Travel Zone.

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Proposed Ordinance

• Prohibits existing DNAPLs after 10 year
  Amortization period in the 0-1 and 1-5 TOTZ

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Proposed Ordinance

• In the 0-1 year TOTZ
• Prohibits more than 500 gallons of hazardous
  materials that would pose a risk to groundwater
  or surface water
• Prohibits underground hazardous materials storage
  facilities
• Hazardous materials pipelines
• Injection wells
• Solid waste landfills and transfer stations
• Fill materials containing hazardous materials

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• Protecting Springfields drinking water is
  everybodys business.