This article establishes regulations for controlling development activities surrounding wellheads.

(Ord. No. 91-1-5, § 2, 5-6-91)

The city council finds that a clean source of potable water is vital for the continued welfare for citizens and visitors to Neptune Beach.

(Ord. No. 91-1-5, § 2, 5-6-91)

The provisions of this part shall be implemented to achieve the following intentions and purposes of the city council:

(1)

To safeguard the health, safety, and welfare by ensuring the protection of the principle source of water from potential contamination; and

(2)

To control development in and adjacent to designated wellheads to protect water supplies from potential contamination.

(Ord. No. 91-1-5, § 2, 5-6-91)

Editor's note— Ord. No. 2017-16, § 1, adopted June 5, 2017, relocated the provisions of § 27-375, Definitions, to § 27-15 herein. Former § 27-375 derived from Ord. No. 91-1-5, § 2, adopted May 6, 1991.

Editor's note— Ord. No. 2022-03, § 1(Exh. A), adopted Aug. 1, 2022, deleted § 27-376 entitled "Development activities within wellhead protection zones," which derived from Ord. No. 91-1-5, § 2, adopted May 6, 1991.

(a)

The following land uses are prohibited within wellhead buffer zones, which consist of all land within two hundred (200) feet of a potable water well:

(1)

Facilities for the bulk storage, handling or processing of materials on the Florida Substance List (F.S. Ch. 442);

(2)

Activities that require the storage, use, handling, production or transportation of restricted substances: agricultural chemicals, petroleum products, hazardous/toxic wastes, industrial chemicals, medical wastes, etc.; and

(3)

Wastewater treatment plants, percolation ponds, and similar facilities.

(b)

These prohibitions are in addition to other protective measures for wellfields that may be imposed by county, regional, state, or federal authorities.

(Ord. No. 91-1-5, § 2, 5-6-91; Ord. No. 2022-03, § 1(Exh. A), 8-1-22)