Groundwater sources shall be located so that there will be no
danger of pollution from flooding or from insanitary surroundings,
such as privies, sewage, sewage treatment plants, livestock and animal
pens, solid waste disposal sites or underground petroleum and chemical
storage tanks and liquid transmission pipelines, or abandoned and
improperly sealed wells.
(2005 Code, sec. 13.4.190)
(a)
No well site which is within 50 feet of a tile or concrete sanitary
sewer, sewerage appurtenance, septic tank, storm sewer, or cemetery,
or which is within 150 feet of a septic tank perforated drainfield,
areas irrigated by low dosage, low angle spray on-site sewage facilities,
absorption bed, evapotranspiration bed, improperly constructed water
well or underground petroleum and chemical storage tank or liquid
transmission pipeline, will be acceptable for use as a public drinking
water supply. Sanitary or storm sewers constructed of ductile iron
or PVC pipe meeting AWWA standards, having a minimum working pressure
of 150 psi or greater, and equipped with pressure type joints may
be located at distances of less than 50 feet from a proposed well
site, but in no case shall the distance be less than 10 feet.
(b)
No well site shall be located within 500 feet of a sewage treatment
plant or within 300 feet of a sewage wet well, sewage pumping station
or drainage ditch which contains industrial waste discharges or the
wastes from sewage treatment systems.
(c)
No water wells shall be located within 500 feet of animal feedlots,
solid waste disposal sites, lands on which sewage plant or septic
tank sludge is applied, or lands irrigated by sewage plant effluent.
(2005 Code, secs. 13.4.191–13.4.193)
Livestock in pastures shall not be allowed within 50 feet of
water supply wells.
(2005 Code, sec. 13.4.194)
All known abandoned or inoperative wells (unused wells that
have not been plugged) within one-quarter mile of a proposed well
site shall be reported to the TCEQ along with existing or potential
pollution hazards. These reports are required for community and nontransient,
non-community groundwater sources. Examples of existing or potential
pollution hazards which may affect groundwater quality include, but
are not limited to: landfill and dump sites, animal feedlots, military
facilities, industrial facilities, wood-treatment facilities, liquid
petroleum and petrochemical production, storage, and transmission
facilities, class 1, 2, 3, and 4 injection wells, and pesticide storage
and mixing facilities. This information must be submitted to the TCEQ
prior to construction or as required by the executive director of
the TCEQ.
(2005 Code, sec. 13.4.195)
