The State Legislature has found that the potable water for the northern
portion of the Great Neck peninsula is derived from aquifers which
are the sole source of water for all of Long Island and that the issues
of contamination and conservation of the aquifers and the need to
better manage the groundwater system on the Great Neck peninsula,
which had been operated by a private utility in 1985, were of such
statewide concern that the State Legislature created the Water Authority
of Great Neck North. It was the hope of the State Legislature that
said Authority would not only protect, preserve and enhance the quality
and quantity of the water within its supply area, but that it would
also serve as a model and as a leader of other water suppliers to
better manage, conserve and protect the groundwaters within and outside
its supply areas. The said Authority, after investigating water conservation,
regulation, and management programs, has recommended that all of the
municipalities within, or partially within, the Water Authority of
Great Neck North District adopt regulations prohibiting persons from
drilling, digging or tapping into any aquifers or other subsurface
source of water because of the possibility of contamination to the
aquifer systems; pumping, which could adversely affect salt water
intrusion into the public supply wells; and unregulated overpumping,
which could adversely deplete supply facilities and the delicate balancing
of the pumping from public supply wells.
This Board has determined that it would be in the best interest of
the health, safety and welfare of the inhabitants of the Village to
adopt said water conservation regulations.
No person shall drill into any aquifer or other subsurface source
of water within the Village.
In any case of unusual hardship, an application for a waiver
from this chapter may be made to the Board of Trustees.