The U. S. Environmental Protection Agency's ground-water classification system and wellhead protection program; Description, status and implications

Conference · Thu Jan 01 00:00:00 EST 1987 · Proceedings, Annual Meeting, Air Pollution Control Association; (USA)

OSTI ID:5054863

Mlay, M; Valdes, J J ^[1]

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1. U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, Washington, DC (US)

As the need to protect ground water has become recognized, a wide array of programs and requirements have emerged at all levels of government to address a variety of different potential sources of contamination and to clean up already contaminated ground water. EPA, states and others have sought ways to accommodate this variability in designing and implementing programs to protect ground water for present and future needs and help assure the most effective use of always-limited resources. This objective is a key feature of EPA's Ground-Water Protection Strategy and the Wellhead Protection Program recently enacted as part of the Safe Drinking Water Act Amendments of 1986. An overview of the EPA program is presented in this paper.

• OSTI ID: 5054863
• Report Number(s): CONF-870695-; CODEN: PRAPA
• Journal Information: Proceedings, Annual Meeting, Air Pollution Control Association; (USA), Vol. 1; Conference: 80. annual meeting of the Air Pollution Control Association, New York, NY (USA), 21-26 Jun 1987; Other Information: Technical Paper 87-19.2; ISSN 0193-9688
• Country of Publication: United States
• Language: English

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