(a) The City Commission finds that groundwater is vulnerable to contamination originating from certain activities on the earth's surface and that the City has a significant public investment in the municipal water system, including the water source.
(b) The purpose of the City of Battle Creek Wellhead Protection Ordinance (“Ordinance”) is to safeguard the health, safety, and welfare of persons served by the City of Battle Creek Public Water Supply System by protecting groundwater that serves as drinking water from activities that have been found through research and experience to have an increased risk of causing contamination of ground water, thus providing a safe potable water supply now and for future generations.
(c) To protect the City's drinking water source from long-term contamination the City Commission does hereby adopt these supplemental regulations which are applicable to designated activities in areas identified in a wellhead protection zone map which is made a part of this chapter.
(Ord. 12-2. Passed 6-19-12.)