Land Use Ordinance - June 2008 - City of Vineland

City of Vineland
Land Use Ordinance Amendment
Design Standards for Wellhead Protection
reasonably likely to pose a significant threat to the water quality of a public community well.
Wellhead protection areas consist of three tiers, corresponding to areas on average, from which
groundwater flows to a well in two years (Tier 1), five years (Tier 2), and 12 years (Tier 3).
These areas are delineated by the New Jersey Geological Survey of the New Jersey Department
of Environmental Protection (NJDEP). The location of the existing wellhead protection areas in
the City of Vineland are mapped on Map CO-1, Conservation Plan, in the Conservation Plan
Element of the City Master Plan adopted by the City Planning Board. For any planned location
of a new public community well for which the NJDEP has not delineated the wellhead protection
area, the wellhead protection area shall be the area within a radius of two thousand (2,000) feet
from the location of the proposed wellhead.
C. Applicability. Any of tract of land that is the subject of an application for subdivision,
site plan, conditional use, or use variance approval, and which is located in a wellhead protection
area, shall be subject to the standards and limitations set forth for wellhead protection.
D. Prohibited activities. The following activities shall not be allowed within a wellhead
protection area:
(1) Permanent storage or disposal of hazardous wastes, industrial or municipal sludge or
radioactive materials, including solid waste landfills.
(2) Collection and transfer facilities for hazardous wastes, solid wastes that contain
hazardous materials, and radioactive materials.
(3) Any activity requiring the underground storage of hazardous substances or waste in
excess of an aggregate of three-hundred (300) gallons.
E. Permitted activities. The following activities involved, conducted, or proposed as part of
an otherwise permitted use or accessory use in the zone shall be allowed in a wellhead protection
area only upon the finding as part of any required site plan, subdivision, conditional use, or
variance approval, that best management practices, or other procedures or measures, as set forth
below in subsection H, are in place such that a minimal threat is posed by the activity to
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