[HISTORY: Adopted by the Town Meeting of the Town of Longmeadow
as §§ 2-504 and 2-505 of the General Bylaws. Amendments
noted where applicable.]
A person shall not dig, bore, drive or drill a well if he does
not have a permit to do so from the Department of Public Works. A
person shall not install a new well or convert from a public to a
private water system without first obtaining a permit from the Board
of Health. A person shall not connect a well to a water system that
is also connected to the water system of the Town of Longmeadow.
A person shall not use water from a well for domestic water
purposes until the owner of the property on whose land the well is
located has provided to the Board of Health of the Town of Longmeadow
an analysis of a water sample, certified by a testing agency acceptable
to the Board of Health, that shows that the water provided by the
well is free from pathogenic bacteria or other disease-producing organism
and does not contain a chemical or mineral substance that is capable
of causing unfavorable physiological effects upon a person who consumes
the water.
