joint groundwater report - Texas Commission on Environmental ...

Table of ContentsACRONYMS ..........................................................................viSUMMARY ............................................................................ 1Purpose and Scope ................................................................... 1Notification to Local Officials and Public Information ....................................... 2Groundwater Protection ............................................................... 3Groundwater Monitoring .............................................................. 3Groundwater Contamination ........................................................... 5GROUNDWATER PROTECTION ........................................................ 11<strong>Texas</strong> Groundwater Protection Committee ............................................... 11Federal Involvement and Coordination ............................................... 12Comprehensive State Groundwater Protection Program .................................. 12Meetings ....................................................................... 13Groundwater Protection Policy ......................................................... 13Groundwater Classification System ..................................................... 13Risk-Based Cleanup Levels ........................................................... 14Groundwater Contamination .......................................................... 17Notification of Groundwater Contamination .............................................. 18Reporting Unauthorized Discharges and Spills ......................................... 19Reporting Historic Contamination ................................................... 20Public Information .................................................................. 20Regulatory Notification to Local Officials ............................................ 20State Agencies' Files ............................................................. 21Other Reports and Publications ..................................................... 21USER’S GUIDE ....................................................................... 23Rules and Definitions Related to Report Compilation ....................................... 23Using the Contamination Case Description Tables ......................................... 24Locating Specific Cases ........................................................... 24Data Fields ..................................................................... 24Enforcement Status Matrix ............................................................ 26Enforcement Status Codes ......................................................... 28Activity Status Codes ............................................................. 29GROUNDWATER PROTECTION PROGRAM DESCRIPTIONS .............................. 31<strong>Texas</strong> Natural Resource Conservation <strong>Commission</strong> ........................................ 31Compliance Support Division ...................................................... 32Enforcement Division ............................................................ 33Field Operations Division ......................................................... 34Industrial and Hazardous Waste Division ............................................. 35Municipal Solid Waste ............................................................ 40Petroleum Storage Tank Division ................................................... 42Pollution Cleanup Division ........................................................ 43Water Quality Division ........................................................... 45iii