APPENDIX H 



CAPE COD AQUIFER MANAGEMENT PROJECT (CCAMP) RECOMMENDATIONS 



WATER SUPPLY PLANNING 



December, 1986 



Introduction 



The importance of water-supply planning is repeatedly made apparent to 

 the Institutions Committee in our examination of the major groundwater 

 protection issues facing Cape Cod. For each town, such as Barnstable with 

 a sophisticated understanding of its water resource and its future water 

 supply needs, there are other towns, particularly those partially or total- 

 ly dependent on private wells, which have not examined their future needs, 

 nor identified the areas they will need to protect for future well sites. 

 DEQE/DWS needs to conduct an extensive outreach program to provide these 

 towns with technical assistance in planning for water supply development. 

 This outreach effort should be geared particularly to those towns on pri- 

 vate wells that will need to develop public supplies soon. DEQE should 

 also expand its current outreach efforts to include technical assistance 

 to towns relating to groundwater protection and the compilation of 

 water-resource-management plans. 



The Zone II delineation process and the restriction of certain activi- 

 ties to protect that zone, were pioneered in the Aquifer Land Acquisition 

 Program. The experience gained from this program should be built on and 

 adapted to other water-supply activities at the state level. DEQE/DWS 

 should offer incentives to municipalities to delineate the Zone lis to 

 their wells and offer guidelines on control mechanisms that might be adapt- 

 ed to protect these areas. 



INSTITUTIONS COMMITTEE RECOMMENDATIONS 



(PRIORITY RECOMMENDATIONS ARE MARKED WITH AN ASTERISK (*)) 



Outreach 



*1. DEQE/DWS, in conjunction with DEM/DWR, should conduct an analysis of 

 the towns in the state which rely completely (or largely) on private 

 wells to determine which towns will most likely need to develop public 

 water supplies in the future. DWS should design an outreach program 

 targeted to those towns that will reach that point first to provide 

 technical assistance to help them undertake the necessary 

 water-supply-development planning. (See also recommendation 3.) 



