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Oconomowoc council adopts stronger wellhead protection rules, limits stormwater-pond chemicals
Summary
The council approved an amendment to the municipal zoning code (section 117.115) to expand wellhead protection requirements for shallow aquifers, requiring hazardous-chemical inventories, spill containment and emergency response plans, limiting some pond treatments to NSF 60 products, and adding development review by planning and utility staff.
The Oconomowoc Common Council voted to adopt ordinance 25-01074, amending section 117.115 of the city zoning ordinance to strengthen wellhead protection requirements for areas that feed municipal drinking wells.
Scott Osborne, speaking for city utilities, said the change extends protections beyond the deep sandstone municipal wells to include the city’s shallow sand-and-gravel aquifers and the city’s new Well 8. Osborne said the ordinance will require hazardous-chemical inventories, spill-containment measures and emergency response plans for sites within designated wellhead protection areas; it will also…
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