History of the Sole Source Aquifer Program: A Community‐Based Approach for Protecting Aquifers Used for Drinking Water Supply
History of the Sole Source Aquifer Program: A Community‐Based Approach for Protecting Aquifers Used for Drinking Water Supply
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唯一水源含水层计划的历史：基于社区的保护饮用水供应含水层的方法
DOI：
10.1111/j.1745-6592.1997.tb00588.x
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发表时间：
1997
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通讯作者：
Calvin J. Terada
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作者：
W. Mccabe;C. Job;J. J. Simons;John S. Graves;Calvin J. Terada
唯一水源含水层方案帮助防止了许多社区饮用水供应受到污染。如果含水层提供社区饮用水的唯一或主要来源，当地地下水用户可以根据《安全饮用水法》向环境保护局(EPA)提出申请，要求将其指定为“唯一来源含水层”并加以保护。自1974年以来，65个社区和多社区地区的居民和官员已请愿并得到环境保护局的帮助，以防止当地地下饮用水水源受到污染。这意味着环境保护局可以审查联邦财政资助的项目，以确定它们是否会污染含水层并造成公共健康危害。如果它们可能造成污染，环保局可以要求修改或停止该项目。该方案在服务人口和受影响资金方面的重要性是巨大的，表明唯一水源含水层方案是保护用作饮用水来源的地下水的重要地方工具。提供了受该计划保护的三个不同唯一来源含水层指定的例子：新泽西海岸平原含水层系统、大迈阿密河潜谷含水层系统(俄亥俄州)和东部蛇河平原含水层(爱达荷州)，分别服务于543,000,921,000和275,000人口。在所有三个例子中，通过唯一水源含水层计划防止地下水污染保护了社区饮用水供应。
The Sole Source Aquifer Program has helped prevent contamination of many community drinking water supplies. If an aquifer supplies the sole or principal source of a community's drinking water, a local ground water user may petition the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) under the Safe Drinking Water Act for its designation and protection as a “sole source aquifer.” Since 1974, residents and officials of 65 communities and multi‐community areas have petitioned and received assistance from the EPA to prevent contamination of their local ground water source of drinking water. This designation means that EPA may review federal financially assisted projects to determine if they would contaminate the aquifer and cause a public health hazard. If they could cause contamination, EPA can request that the project be modified or stopped. The significance of this program in terms of population served and funds affected has been substantial, indicating the Sole Source Aquifer Program has been an important local tool for protecting ground water used as a source of drinking water. Information is given on three different examples of sole source aquifer designations protected under this program: the New Jersey Coastal Plain Aquifer System, the Great Miami River Buried Valley Aquifer System (Ohio), and the Eastern Snake River Plain Aquifer (Idaho), serving populations of 543,000, 921,000, and 275,000, respectively. In all three examples, preventing ground water contamination through the Sole Source Aquifer Program has protected the community drinking water supply.