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to articulate the need for this kind of planning and initiate action. DEQE 

 should initiate an aggressive outreach and loan program to promote water 

 supply planning in towns with no public water through planning grants and 

 greater technical assistance. DEQE/DWS should also set up a grant program 

 for assistance to communities for Zone II delineation. Finally, DWS 

 should utilize the new source approval process to educate local officials 

 on Zone II protection and to exert some control on inappropriate land uses 

 in these areas. 



7.2.2 Enhanced Groundwater Protection in Landfill Programs 



(See Appendix I) 



CCAMP reviewed landfills at a time when the DEQE Solid Waste Program 

 was emerging from four years of limited staffing and low program ranking. 

 As a result, protecting groundwater from landfill leachate and incorporat- 

 ing a groundwater protection strategy within the overall solid-waste pro- 

 gram was woefully lacking at the state level, where primary regulatory 

 authority lies. Particularly troublesome was the inadequate or nonexist- 

 ent groundwater monitoring at landfill sites. Key CCAMP recommendations 

 for landfills include: 



o Impacts to public- and private-water supplies should be the first 

 priority of DEQE's landfill management program. A prioritized 

 ranking system should be established and implemented to drive all 

 landfill activities: siting, plan review, monitoring, inspection, 

 capping, closure and enforcement. 



o No landfills should be sited in Zone lis of public water supplies. 

 Existing landfills in Zone lis should be phased out as soon as 

 possible . 



o DEQE should establish a well-defined, comprehensive landfill 

 monitoring program. All landfills in the state should be required to 

 install adequate groundwater-monitoring systems. 



o DEQE and local authorities should develop a workable system for 

 sharing information and data on all groundwater monitoring conducted 

 at landfills to better assess threats to drinking water supplies. 



7.2.3 Private Wells (See Appendix J) 



Following an evaluation of the needs to protect private wells in the 

 towns of Barnstable and Eastham, CCAMP recommended that both county and 

 state agencies immediately take steps to develop guidance documents for use 

 by homeowners and local officials for the protection of this resource. 



