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Home My Public Portal About527 Ordinance Amending Section 710 of the Code of Ordinances Regarding Private Wells on Property Served by the City Water Supply SystemCITY OF MEDINA ORDINANCE NO.527 An Ordinance Amending Section 710 of the Code of Ordinances Regarding Private Wells on Property Served by the City Water Supply System The city council of the city of Medina ordains as follows: SECTION I: Medina Code Section 710.01 through 710.04 is hereby amended by inserting the underlined text and deleting the stricken text as follows: Section 710.01. Definitions. For the purposes of this section, the following terms shall have the meanings given to them: Subd. 1. "Backflow Preventer" means any mechanical or air gap system designed and installed in order to prevent the accidental backflow of water from one source to another. Subd 2. "City Water Supply System" means all Public Water Supply Wells, water towers, reservoirs, treatment plants, water mains, and service lines that the city owns, operates or maintains and all private water lines connected to any of the above. Subd. 3. "Drinking Water Supply Management Area" means the surface and subsurface area surrounding a Public Water Supply Well, including the Wellhead Protection Area, which must be managed in accordance with the Wellhead Protection Plan. Subd. 4. "Irrigation Well" means any well that is installed to provide water to supplement the water level of a Storm Water Pond which is utilized for a Lawn and Landscape Irrigation System. Subd. 5. "Lawn and Landscape Irrigation System" means all pumps, lines or sprinkler heads which are located on private property or within the adjacent public right-of-way that have a sole purpose of irrigating landscape plants and/or grass. Subd. 6. "Private Water Supply Well" means a Water Supply Well that is not owned, operated or managed by the city. Subd 7 "Public Water Supply Well" means a Water Supply Well owned, managed or operated by the city. Subd. 8. "Seed Bed Preparation" means the preparation of top soil for any seeding, sodding or planting. A seed bed shall consist of a minimum of four inches of black top soil and two inches of humus or compost material. Subd. 9. "Storm Water Pond" means any basin that is designed and constructed to treat storm water runoff from a particular area. Ordinance No. 527 1 May 15, 2012 Subd. 10. "Water Supply Well" means a well that is not a dewatering well or monitoring well and includes wells used: (a) for potable water supply; (b) for irrigation; (c) for agriculture, commercial or industrial water supply; (d) for heating or cooling; (e) as a remedial well; and (fl for testing water yield for irrigation. commercial or industrial uses, residential su or public water supply. Subd. 11. "Wellhead Protection Area" means the surface and subsurface area surrounding a Public Water Supply Well as identified in the Well Protection Plan. Subd. 12. "Wellhead Protection Plan" means the city plan, which has been approved by the Minnesota Department of Health, which provides for the protection of all Public Water Supply Wells. Section 710.02. Private Water Supply Wells where City Water Supply System is Available. Subd. 1. Purpose. The City Water Supply System represents a significant .ublic investment and its operation in an efficient and sanitary manner is essential to protect public health safety and welfare to safeguard municipal finances and to support development within the community. It is the purpose of this ordinance to protect the integrity, financial stability, and adequacy of the City Water Supply System by restricting the installation of Private Water Supply Wells where the City Water Supply System is available and regulating the permitting of Private Water Supply Wells in locations where they pose a threat to City Water Supply Wells. Subd. 2. Private Water Supply Wells Prohibited where City Water Supply System is Available. (a No Private Water Suppl Well may be installed on any property where the City Water Supply System is available with the exception of the wells described in Subd. 2(b) of Section 710.02 below. For the purpose of this section, the City Water Supply System shall be considered available if the property is within the current or earlier time period of the Urban Services Phasing Plan of the City of Medina Comprehensive Plan. (b) Exceptions. (1) Irrigation Wells. Irrigation Wells may be installed to suy.lement water in storm water ponds which supply a Lawn and Landscape Irrigation System. Such Wells shall require prior written approval of the City. No Irrigation We11 shall be permitted by the City within the Drinking Water Supply Management Area unless the applicant can demonstrate to the satisfaction of the City that the Irrigation Well will not have a negative effect on a City Water Supply Well, impact the City's ability to provide an adply equatublic water sup e�or otherwise compromise the City Water Supply System. Ordinance No. 527 May 15, 2012 2 (2) Private Water Supply Wells used solely as part of a heating or cooling system for a building. (3) Private Water Supply Wells on property zoned Rural Residential -Urban Reserve (RR-UR), Rural Business Holding (RBH), or Rural Commercial Holding (RCH) if the City determines that connecting to the City Water Supply System is not economically feasible based on the use proposed on the property. Section 710.0403. Connections with Water Mains Prohibited. No person except employed or authorized by the City shall tap any distributing main or pipe of the City Water Supply System, or insert stop -cocks or corporation -cocks therein. Section 710.0304. Permits for Service Connections. Subd. 1. No connection or service tapping shall be made with a City water main without a permit which shall be issued by the City upon application by a licensed Master Plumber. Subd. 2. No permit shall be issued for a connection or service tapping with the City water main to anyone except a licensed Master Plumber. Subd. 3. Permits shall describe the location and size of each connection, and size must not be departed from in any degree, except on the written consent made on said permit by the officer giving the same. SECTION II: Medina Code Section 710.75, Subd. 2 is hereby amended by inserting the underlined text and deleting the stricken text as follows: 710.75. Lawn and Landscape Irrigation Systems. Subd. 2. Reserved. Definitions. For the purpose of this ordinance, the following terms shall have the meanings given to them. (a)"Backflow Preventer" means any mechanical or air gap system designed and installed in order to prevent the accidental backflow of water from one source to another. (b) "Irrigation Well" means any well that is installed to provide water to supplement the water level of a Storm Water Pond. (c) "Lawn and Landscape Irrigation System" means all pumps, lines or sprinkler heads whieh-afe-leeated-en-pfivate-prepeFty-ef-within-the-actiaeent-puhlic--Fight-4-way that have a sole purpose of irrigating landscape plants and/or grass. (d) "City Water Supply System" means any well, water tower, reservoir, treatment plant, water main, service line or any private water line connected to any of the above, Ordinance No. 527 3 May 15, 2012 that the city owns, operates, maintains or supplies. (e) "Seed Bed Preparation" means the preparation of top soil for any seeding, sodding or rmii} g,-,4-scca-vcv-srcrrrcvirsrsc-v rxvar-iire....., e....»..,. t.,1, .,.,.. and two inches of humus or compost material. LI LCLI JIVIIII water runoff from a particular area. SECTION III: The ordinance shall be effective upon its adoption and publication. Adopted by the city council of the city of Medina this 15th day of May, 2012. ( i)41< T.M. Crosby, Jr., May ATTEST: -f Scott T. Johnson, City Administrator -Clerk Published in the South Crow River News this 24`h day of May, 2012. Ordinance No. 527 4 May 15, 2012