CPA · Nuisance and General Sanitation Regulation
Part 2 — Potable Water Water Supplies
15 Wells Location and maintenance of wells
that is intended or used for human consumption within
(a) 10 metres of any watertight septic tank, pump out tank or
other watertight compartment of a sewage or waste water
system,
(b) 15 metres of a weeping tile field, an evaporative treatment
mound or an outdoor toilet facility with a pit,
Section 18 AR 243/2003
(c) 30 metres of a leaching cesspool,
(d) 50 metres of sewage eff luent on the ground surface,
(e) 100 metres of a sewage lagoon, or
(f) 450 metres of any area where waste is or may be disposed
of at a landfill within the meaning of the Waste Control
Regulation (AR 192/96).
(1.1) A person shall not change the use of a water well to a water
well that supplies water that is to be used for human consumption
from any other use if the water well is located within any of the
distances referred to in subsection (1)(a) to (f).
(2) A person shall not locate
(a) a watertight septic tank, p ump out tank or other watertight
compartment of a sewage or waste water system within 10
metres,
(b) a weeping tile field, an ev aporative treatment mound or an
outdoor toilet facility with a pit within 15 metres,
(c) a sewage lagoon w ithin 100 metres, or
(d) a landfill so that an ar ea where waste is or may be
disposed of is located within 450 metres
of a water well that supplies water that is intended or used for
human consumption.
(3) A person shall not deposit sewage effluent on the ground
surface within 50 metres of a water well referred to in subsection
(2).
AR 243/2003 s15;162/2014