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ORDINANCE NO. 2696
AN ORDINANCE AMENDING THE NORTH RICHLAND HILLS CODE OF
ORDINANCES, CHAPTER 23, UTILITIES, BY ADDING SECTION 23-14
OUTLINING WELLHEAD PROTECTION MEASURES; PROVIDING A A
SEVERABILITY CLAUSE; PROVIDING A PENALTY; AUTHORIZING
PUBLICATION; AND ESTABLISHING AN EFFECTIVE DATE
WHEREAS, the City of North Richland Hills utilizes underground water to supply potable
water to its citizens in emergencies; and
WHEREAS, the City of North Richland Hills must protect the underground water sources and
its water well sites from contaminants and pollutants; and
WHEREAS, the quality of water to be supplied must meet the quality criteria prescribed by the
Texas Commission on Environmental Quality (TCEQ's) Drinking Water Rules
and Regulations, including Rule No. 290.41(c)(1), and the City Council finds that
the rules and regulations are being complied with; NOW, THEREFORE,
BE IT ORDAINED BY THE CITY COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF NORTH RICHLAND
HILLS, TEXAS:
Section 1:
THAT all matters stated in the preamble are found to be true and correct and are
incorporated herein.
Section 2:
THAT Chapter 23, Utilities, ofthe North Richland Hills Code of Ordinances, be
amended by adding a new Section 23-14 which shall read as follows:
"Section 23-14 Wellhead Protection Measures.
(a) The construction and operation ofunderground petroleum and chemical storage tanks and
liquid transmission pipelines, stock pens, feedlots, dump grounds, privies, cesspools,
septic tank or sewage treatment drain fields, or improperly constructed water wells of any
depth, and all other construction or operation that could create an unsanitary condition
within, upon, or across the property, are prohibited within a 150 foot radius of any City
water well. Improperly constructed water wells are those wells which do not meet the
surface and subsurface construction standards for a public water supply well as required
by this ordinance and State law.
(b) The construction of clay tile or concrete sanitary sewers, sewer appurtenances, septic
tanks, stonn sewers, and cemeteries is specifically prohibited within a 50-foot radius of
any City water well.
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(c) No well site shall be located within 500 feet of a sewage treatment plant or within 300
feet of a sewage wet well, sewage pumping station, or a drainage ditch which contains
industrial waste discharges or the wastes from sewage treatment systems.
(d) No water well shall be located within 500 feet of animal feed lots, solid waste disposal
sites, lands on which sewage plant or septic tank sludge is applied, or lands irrigated by
sewage plant effluent.
(e) All known abandoned or inoperative wells (unused wells that have not been plugged)
within one quarter mile of a proposed well site shall be reported to the TCEQ, along with
existing or potential pollution hazards.
(f) City representatives shall be granted access to private property within 150 feet of any
water well used by the public water system to verify that none ofthe prohibited sources
of pollution have been constructed."
Section 3:
Section 4:
Section 5:
Section 6:
It is hereby declared to be the intention of the City Council that the sections,
paragraphs, sentences, clauses and phrases of this ordinance are severable and, if
any phrase, clause, sentence, paragraph or section of this ordinance shall be
declared unconstitutional or otherwise invalid by the final judgment or decree of
any court of competent jurisdiction, such invalidity shall not affect any of the
remaining phrases, clauses, sentences, paragraphs and sections ofthis ordinance,
since the same would have been enacted by the city council without the
incorporation in this ordinance of any such invalid phrase, clause, sentence,
paragraph or section.
Any person, firm or corporation violating any provision ofthis ordinance shall be
deemed guilty of a misdemeanor and upon final conviction thereof fined in an
amount not to exceed Two Thousand Dollars ($2,000.00). Each day any such
violation shall be allowed to continue shall constitute a separate violation and
punishable hereunder.
The City Secretary is hereby authorized and directed to cause the publication of
the descriptive caption and penalty clauses of this ordinance as an alternative
method of publication provided by law.
This ordinance shall be in full force and effect immediately upon passage.
AND IT IS SO ORDAINED.
PASSED AND APPROVED this 9th day of June, 2003.
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