§ 26-333. Purpose.

(a)

Wis. Admin. Code ch. NR 111, directs suppliers of water for municipal water systems to require the abandonment of all unused, unsafe or noncomplying wells located on the premises served by their system, by local ordinance or water utility rule, to prevent such wells as acting as channels for contamination or vertical movement of water and to eliminate all existing cross-connections and prevent all future cross connections.

(b)

To prevent contamination of groundwater and to protect public health, safety and welfare by assuring that unused, unsafe or noncomplying wells or wells which may serve as conduits for contamination or wells which may be illegally cross connected to the village water system, are properly abandoned.

(Ord. No. 9-1-52, § 1, 12-4-1990)