DRAFT Groundwater Management Plan
(Under Construction)
TABLE OF CONTENTS
SECTION 1.0 INTRODUCTION (pdf file)
1.1 Background and Institutional Framework
1.2 Goals and Objectives
1.3 Authority
1.4 Cooperating Agencies
SECTION 2.0 ENVIRONMENTAL ASSESSMENT (pdf file--text only)
2.1 Availability of Data
2.2 Pollution Attenuation in the Physical Environment
2.3 Evaluation of Groundwater Vulnerability to Pollution
2.4 Summary of Environmental Setting
SECTION 3.0 LAND USE AND POTENTIAL POLLUTION SOURCES (pdf file--text only)
3.1 Introduction
3.2 Land Use and Population Summary
3.3 Manure Storage Structures
3.4 Petroleum Product Pipelines
3.5 Biosolids Landspreading
3.6 Spray Irrigation of Wastewater
3.7 Unused or Unsafe Wells
3.8 Petroleum Product Storage Tanks
3.9 Private Onsite Wastewater Treatment Systems
3.10 Landfills
3.11 Storage and Use of Road Salt
3.12 Municipal Sewer Systems
3.13 Septage
3.14 Agricultural Chemicals – Nitrate Nitrogen
3.15 Agricultural Chemicals – Pesticides
SECTION 4.0 THE COUNTY'S GROUNDWATER RESOURCES (pdf file--text only)
4.1 Introduction
4.2 Groundwater Quantity
4.3 Groundwater Quality
SECTION 5.0 MANAGEMENT TECHNIQUES AND OPTIONS (pdf file--text only)
5.1 Existing State Regulatory and Educational Framework
5.2 Existing Local Groundwater Management Framework
SECTION 6.0 RECOMMENDATIONS (pdf file--text only)
6.1 GOALS
6.2 STRATEGIES
APPENDIX SR Soil Ranking System
APPENDIX PS Private Onsite Wastewater Treatment Systems
APPENDIX VG Portage County Value of Groundwater Survey
APPENDIX RE Status of Implementation of 1988 Plan Recommendations
APPENDIX CE Conservation Easements
APPENDIX AD Agricultural Diversification
APPENDIX WA Well Abandonment Sample Ordinance
APPENDIX HC High Capacity Well Resolution
APPENDIX PH Public Health Groundwater Quality Standards
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