(a) The purpose of this chapter is to safeguard the public health, safety and welfare by establishing a wellfield protection ordinance to protect the public water supply of the City of Marietta, Ohio. This shall be accomplished by implementing regulations that control the following activities in defined wellfield protection area:
(1) Use of regulated or potentially damaging substances; and
(2) Mining of industrial materials.
(b) These activities shall be controlled within specified areas for wellfield protection in and around any wellfield operated by the City of Marietta to obtain public drinking water.
(c) These regulations are intended to provide for the protection and availability of existing and future potable water supply by instituting rational and objective standards and criteria for the control of toxic, hazardous or any other substance or activity which adversely impacts the ground water supply within specifically defined geographic areas in and around the City's present and future wellfields, thereby enhancing the protection of the public potable water supply.
(Ord. 175(14-15). Passed 11-6-14.)