It is the intent of the Well Head Protection Overlay District (sometimes referred to as the WP District or Overlay District or Protection Overlay District) to safeguard the health, safety and welfare of the customers of protected public water supplies and to protect the community’s potable water supply against contamination by regulating land use and the storage, handling, use and/or production of regulated substances as defined below. The land within the overlay district is that land in the Municipality that lies within a five (5) year travel time contour adjacent to existing and proposed public wells of a protected public water supply.
(Ord. 00-60. Passed 9-18-2000.)