GEOG306 Lecture Notes - Lecture 5: Urban Land, Aquifer, Pressure Head
8 May 2019
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Groundwater, urban land use and aquifer protection (ch 7) What is source water protection: untreated water from streams, lakes, rivers and groundwater used for private and public drinking water systems, sources, surface water, groundwater. Introduced in 2005 and passed in 2006 based on recommendations of the o"connor. Report: to protect existing and future drinking waters in order to protect and enhance human and ecosystem health, swp represents first barrier in multi-barrier approach to providing safe and sustained water supplies. Focus of clean water act: reduce significant risks to drinking water, municipal water sources. Intake protection areas: highly vulnerable areas, plans to reduce significant risks to accept able levels and prevent future significant risks. Intake protection zones (ipz) vulnerability: closer to intake increased vulnerability to risk, zone 1 minimum 1 km radius, zone 2 minimum 2 hr travel time to intake. Dumfries: greenbrook aquifer, major aquifer providing water for waterloo.
