Consultant recommends removing agricultural exemption from Wellhead Protection ordinance; second reading tabled

Liberty Flora of Intera presented the second reading of Ordinance 2026-7, describing changes made to reduce ambiguity and recommending a substantive clarification: she urged removing the current exemption for agricultural uses so that agricultural activities that fall under commercial or industrial categories (for example, large-scale tanks, fuel storage or confined feeding operations) would be subject to the ordinance's upgrade requirements. "Intera's recommendation is to remove that exemption so that agricultural uses falling under the commercial and industrial category would be subject to the same upgrade requirements as other covered uses," Flora said, and she clarified the change would primarily affect new agricultural uses.