(a) 
Use of underground water supplies.
The city utilizes underground water to supply potable water to its citizens in emergencies.
(b) 
Protection of underground water sources and well sites.
The city must protect the underground water sources and its water well sites from contaminants and pollutants.
(c) 
Water quality.
The quality of water to be supplied must meet the quality criteria prescribed by the Texas Commission on Environmental Quality (TCEQ) Drinking Water Rules and Regulations, including Rule No. 290.41(c)(1), and the city council finds that the rules and regulations are being complied with.
(Ordinance 2696, adopted 6/9/2003)
(a) 
Generally.
The construction and operation of underground petroleum and chemical storage tanks and liquid transmission pipelines, stock pens, feedlots, dump grounds, privies, cesspools, septic tank or sewage treatment drain fields, or improperly constructed water wells of any depth, and all other construction or operation that could create an unsanitary condition within, upon, or across the property, are prohibited within a 150-foot radius of any city water well. Improperly constructed water wells are those wells which do not meet the surface and subsurface construction standards for a public water supply well as required by this division and state law.
(b) 
Construction of sewer systems.
The construction of clay tile or concrete sanitary sewers, sewer appurtenances, septic tanks, storm sewers, and cemeteries is specifically prohibited within a 50-foot radius of any city water well.
(c) 
Location of new well sites.
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 a drainage ditch which contains industrial waste discharges or the wastes from sewage treatment systems.
(d) 
Location of wells near animal feed lots, solid waste disposal sites, etc.
No water well shall be located within 500 feet of animal feed lots, solid waste disposal sites, lands on which sewage plant or septic tank sludge is applied, or lands irrigated by sewage plant effluent.
(e) 
Report of abandoned or inoperative wells.
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.
(f) 
Access of city representatives for inspection.
City representatives shall be granted access to private property within 150 feet of any water well used by the public water system to verify that none of the prohibited sources of pollution have been constructed.
(Ordinance 2696, § 2(23-14), adopted 6/9/2003)