14.36.020 Purpose and intent.
The purpose of this chapter is to protect the public health, safety, and welfare by protecting critical aquifer recharge areas and the city’s water resources that serve as the city’s potable water source. Specifically, the purpose of this chapter is to implement the following goals:
A. To protect the quality and to manage the quantity of ground water for all uses in the present and in the future.
B. To prevent ground water contamination by protecting the entire resource as effectively as possible, but within the limits of what is acceptable and affordable to the community.
C. To prevent contamination of drinking water supplies.
D. To assure that preventive actions are taken to protect water quality from further degradation and, in cooperation with the Department of Ecology, promote corrective actions in areas where degradation has occurred so that the net effect is a gradual improvement of the ground and surface water quality.
E. To provide legislation regulating land uses within critical aquifer recharge areas generally and more precise standards and regulations for designated wellhead protection areas. (Ord. 1505 §44 (part), 2017).