Demonstrating Benefits of Wellhead Protection Programs
Demonstrating Benefits of Wellhead Protection Programs

Author: Mark Blenis Williams

Publisher: American Water Works Association

Published: 2004

Total Pages: 116

ISBN-13: 9781583213353

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This study was designed to identify the key elements of wellhead protection programs (WHPP), the costs to develop and implement, to compile a list of benefits and to develop a generic method to measure those benefits. Utilizing the sparse literature and 9 cases studies, successful WHPP are discussed in relation to the USEPA 1986 SDWA amendments.

A Guide to Wellhead Protection
A Guide to Wellhead Protection

Author: Jonathan Douglas Witten

Publisher: American Planning Association

Published: 1995

Total Pages: 106

ISBN-13:

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There are many reasons to protect groundwater. More than half of the United States relies on it for drinking water. The population of the U.S. has increased by 20 million in the past 10 years, while the amount of groundwater available for consumption has remained the same. One gallon of gasoline can contaminate 1 million gallons of groundwater. And the cost of contamination clean up far exceeds that of a prevention program. This report provides the information needed to start a wellhead protection program. It reviews the fundamentals of water hydrology, the causes and effects of contamination, wellhead management and protection, and financial strategies available to communities interested in starting a program. The report also includes a table of land uses and their potential contaminants, a matrix that describes regulatory and nonregulatory devices to be used in a program, and a sample ordinance.