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Source Water Protection (SWP)

How to Manual: How to Update and Enhance Your Local Source Water Protection Assessments

This manual describes opportunities for improving source water assessments performed under the Safe Drinking Water Act 1453. It includes: local delineations, potential contaminant source inventories, and susceptibility determinations of source water assessments.

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How to Manual: How to Update and Enhance Your Local Source Water Protection Assessments (PDF)(36 pp, 798 K, September 2006, EPA816-K-06-004)
This manual is intended to help Source Water Protection (SWP) Partners protect the raw sources of their drinking water from Potential Contaminant Sources (PCSs)