Source Water Assessment Program
Table of Contents

EXECUTIVE SUMMARY .........................................................................................................v
ACKNOWLEDGMENTS..........................................................................................................vi
REFERENCES............................................................................................................................vii
LIST OF ACRONYMS............................................................................................................viii

1 INTRODUCTION
1.1 Basic Requirements for the SWAP
1.2 Goal for Nebraska’s SWAP
1.3 Public Water Supply Systems in Nebraska
2 WELLHEAD PROTECTION AND RELATED PROGRAMS
2.1 The Wellhead Protection Program
2.2 Voluntary Protective Actions and Existing Protective State Regulations
2.2.1 Title 179 - Rules and Regulations for Public Water Supply Systems
2.2.2 Title 118 - Ground Water Standards
2.2.3 Title 196 - Nonpoint Source Ground Water Management
2.2.4 Ground Water Management and Protection Act
2.2.5 Title 117 - Surface Water Standards
2.2.6 Nonpoint Source Management Program
2.3 WHP Option for Nitrate Administrative Order
2.4 Changes to the Approved Wellhead Protection Program
2.5 The Wellhead Protection Area Act
3 DELINEATION METHODS
3.1 Wellhead Protection Areas for Ground Water Systems
3.1.1 Community Public Water Supply Systems
3.1.2 WHPA2, Computer Modeled Delineation
3.1.3 Fixed Radius on Non-Community PWSSs
3.1.4 Non-Transient, Non-Community Public Water Supply Systems
3.1.5 Transient, Non-Community Public Water Supply Systems
3.1.6 Delineations of Non-Adjacent Recharge Areas
3.2 Surface Water Systems and Ground Water Under the Direct Influence
3.2.1 Conjunctive Delineations of Surface Waters with Significant Hydrologic Connections
3.3 Responsibility
4 INVENTORY OF POTENTIAL CONTAMINANT SOURCES
4.1 Contaminants of Concern
4.1.1 List of Contaminants of Concern
4.2 Ground Water Systems, Two Level Approach
4.2.1 Level One - Database Search
4.2.2 NDEQs Database
4.2.3 Class V UIC Wells
4.2..4 Level Two - “On-the-Ground” Inventory
4.2.5 Transient, Non-Community PWSSs
4.2.6 Sampling Waivers
4.3 Surface Water Systems, Two Level Approach
4.3.1 Level One - Database Search
4.3.2 Level Two - “On-the-Ground” Inventory
4.4 Responsibility
5 VULNERABILITY ANALYSIS
5.1 Vulnerability Definition
5.2 Ground Water Systems
5.2.1 Phase One - Existing Sanitary Survey Program
5.2.2 Phase Two - More Detailed Vulnerability Analysis
Table 5.1 Vulnerability Scores Ranking for Ground Water Community PWSSs
Table 5.2 - Second Phase Vulnerability Analysis for Ground Water Community PWS Wells
5.2.3 Explanation of Table Characteristics
5.2.4 Non-Community PWSS
Table 5.3 Second Phase Vulnerability Analysis for Non-Community PWSS
Table 5.4 Vulnerability Scores Ranking for Non-Community PWSSs
5.2.5 Vulnerability by Well, Wellfield, or by System
5.3 Surface Water Systems
Table 5.5 Second Phase Vulnerability Analysis for Surface Water Systems
Table 5.6 Vulnerability Scores Ranking for Surface Water Community PWSSs
5.3.1 Explanation of Table Characteristics
5.4 Responsibility
6 MAKING ASSESSMENTS AVAILABLE TO THE PUBLIC
6.1 Information in a Source Water Assessment
6.2 Consumer Confidence Reports
6.2.1 Water Bills
6.2.2 Television, Community Access Channel on Cable
6.2.3 Posters and Flyers
6.2.4 Press Releases
6.2.5 Internet
6.2.6 NDEQs Internet Website
6.2.7 Public Meetings
6.2.8 Newsletters
6.2.9 Examples of Where To Have Assessments Available
6.2.10 SWAP Distribution List
6.3 Responsibility
7 PUBLIC STAKEHOLDER INVOLVEMENT
7.1 Advisory Committee
7.1.1 Meeting Dates
7.1.2 Invited Advisory Committee Participants
7.2 Surface Water Users Committee
7.2.1 Meeting Dates
7.2.2 Invited Surface Water Users Committee Participants
7.2.3 Mailings to Advisory Committee
7.2.4 Goal Setting Meeting
7.3 Other Public Outreach and Coordination
7.3.1 Public Stakeholder Meetings at NRD Offices
7.3.2 Public Presentations
7.3.3 Coordination with the Groundwater Guardian Program
7.3.4 Coordination with the Resource Conservation and Development Areas
7.3.5 Coordination with the Nebraska Rural Water Association
7.3.6 Coordination with the Lower Platte River Corridor Alliance
7.3.7 Programs and Groups Working in Cooperation with SWAP
7.3.8 Video Conference
8 ADDITIONAL NOTES
8.1 Updates
8.2 New Systems
8.3 Emergency Response Plan
8.4 Priority for Permits and Compliance NPDES Inspections
8.5 Ground Water Disinfection Rule
8.6 18 Month Extension
8.7 Tribes
List of Acronyms
CCRConsumer Confidence Report
CERCLAComprehensive Emergency Response Cleanup and Liability Act
CSIContaminant Source Inventory
CWAClean Water Act
DWSRFDrinking Water State Revolving Loan Fund
EPAEnvironmental Protection Agency
FYFiscal Year
GISGeographic Information System
GPSGlobal Positioning System
GWMAGround Water Management Area
GWUDIGround Water Under the Direct Influence of Surface Water
IISIntegrated Information System
LBLegislative Bill
LPRCALower Platte River Corridor Alliance
LUSTLeaking Underground Storage Tanks
MCLMaximum Contaminant Level
NDANebraska Department of Agriculture
NDEQNebraska Department of Environmental Quality
NDWRNebraska Department of Water Resources
NeRWANebraska Rural Water Association
NHHSNebraska Health and Human Services
NNRCNebraska Natural Resource Commission
NOGCCNebraska Oil and Gas Conservation Commission
NPDESNational Pollutant Discharge Elimination System
NPSNonpoint Source
NRCSNatural Resource Conservation Service
NRDsNatural Resources Districts
NSFMNebraska State Fire Marshal
PWSSPublic Drinking Water Supply System
RC&DResource Conservation & Development
RCRAResource Conservation Recovery Act
ROAResult Oriented Activity
SARASuperfund Amendments and Reauthorization Act
SDWASafe Drinking Water Act
SFMState Fire Marshal
SWAPSource Water Assessment Program
TOTTime of Travel
UICUnderground Injection Control
UNLUniversity of Nebraska - Lincoln
USDAU.S. Department of Agriculture
USGSU.S. Geological Survey
WDAWatershed Delineation Area
WHPAWellhead Protection Area
WHPPWellhead Protection Program


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