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Source Water Protection Program

  • Jack Dunn
    New York State Department of Health, Bureau of Public Water Supply Protection
    547 River St
    Room 400, 4th Floor
    Troy, New York 12180-2216
    Phone: 518-402-7650  
    Email: jmd02@health.state.ny.us

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Publications for New York

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Case Studies for New York

    Title: New York: Allegany County Planning Department, Town and Village of Andover
    Subtitle: Septic System/GIS/Tax Map Pilot Project 
    Case Study Type: Protection 
    Description: The state Department of Health's (DOH) source water assessment identified septic systems as a possible threat to Andover's NY's water supply (private wells and a spring). The NY DOH, and Allegheny County planning department put 3,330 paper files on private septic systems into an electronic database and linked these to a database of digitized tax maps, which are updated annually. Since completion in Andover, this project has been expanded to include five additional towns and two villages, nearly doubling the number of septic systems that are tracked in the linked database. 


    Title: New York: Forestville
    Subtitle: Addressing Non-point Source Pollution 
    Case Study Type: Assessment and Protection 
    Description: The Village of Forestville, New York, is a small rural community with a population of 738. The village's drinking water is derived from two springs, the Hall and Henry springs, which discharge from shallow sand and gravel glacial aquifers. The main threat to the village's water supply has been nonpoint source (NPS) pollution.  


    Title: New York: New York City and Seven Upstate New York Counties
    Subtitle: Effective Watershed Management Earns Filtration Waiver for New York 
    Case Study Type: Assessment and Protection 
    Description: New York City's population of approximately eight million residents, shares its water supply with one million residents of Westchester, Putnam, Orange, and Ulster Counties, all consuming approximately 1.4 billion gallons of drinking water daily. The source of this water supply is a network of 19 surface water reservoirs, covering 2,000 square miles in a region of upstate New York that extends 125 miles north and west of New York City and encompasses two different regional watersheds. The challenge is to reconcile the public health and environmental resource protection interests of a large and distant city with the farming community's desire to maintain an agricultural way of life in the watershed region.  


    Title: New York: Rural Water Association
    Subtitle: Elected Officials and Rural Water Association Specialists Launch Six-County Strategy 
    Case Study Type: Protection 
    Description: By facilitating collaboration among local officials, the New York Rural Water Association (NYRWA) launched a project to develop SWP strategies for the municipal systems of six counties in eastern New York which a DOH assessment identified as highly susceptible to contamination. This project targets both ground and surface water-based systems serving up to 50,000 people. NYRWA is holding meetings with each municipality's chief elected official, water system operator, engineer, and others. Still in its early stages, the output of this project will be SWP strategies for all participating towns. Protection measures will include both regulatory and non-regulatory efforts that are based on each system's unique needs and preferences. 


    Title: New York: Skaneateles Lake Watershed
    Subtitle: Non-point Sources Addressed in NY Watershed Management Plan 
    Case Study Type: Assessment and Protection 
    Description: Skaneateles Lake, the fourth largest of the Finger Lakes in New York State, is long and narrow, averaging only three quarters of a mile in width over a length of sixteen miles. It is also deep, with a maximum depth of 300 feet. Given the high quality of the lake's water, The reliance on this water as drinking water for the City of Syracuse and the Town of Skaneateles, and the Villages of Skaneateles, Elbridge and Jordan and the high recreational value of the lake, the citizens of Syracuse and the Skaneateles Lake watershed have a vested interest in protecting their source of water from contamination.  


    Title: New York: Tioga County Planning Department, Town and Village of Candor
    Subtitle: Septic Systems GIS Pilot Project for Small Towns 
    Case Study Type: Protection 
    Description: Located in the Upper Susquehanna Watershed, the Town and Village of Candor rely on an unconfined aquifer to supply well-water to over 850 residents. A DOH source water assessment identified nitrates and pathogens as possible drinking water contaminants. The town planning department initiated a pilot project to collect and integrate septic system data into a geographical information system (GIS), using a GPS-loaded PDA in the field.. This data was integrated with digitized tax maps to generate clear GIS maps of regional septic systems, and color-coded to indicate those with a history of problems and hence pose a threat to groundwater. 


    Title: New York: Village of Clinton and Town of Kirkland
    Subtitle: Ordinance for Small Ground Water Public Water System in Rural NY 
    Case Study Type: Protection 
    Description: Based on a source water assessment that showed vulnerability of the 6 wells serving 3,000 residents of the Village of Clinton and the Town of Kirkland to pathogens and toxics, a source water team met to draft a drinking water protection ordinance. Representatives from the NY DEP and DOH, and the Town and Village municipalities met monthly with a local college professor of geology to draft an ordinance based on a model from a nearby municipality. The ordinance will establish zoning overlays and land use restrictions. The committee's first goal is to finesse the current delineation in the DOH source water assessments in order to make the ordinance legally defensible. This effort is ongoing. 


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