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Submitted by Schmalfuss_R on February 10, 2017 - 2:35pm
Contaminated drinking water wells are identified through the sampling efforts of the local County Public Health Units supported by the Water Supply Restoration Program (WSRP) funding.
Chapter 376.307(1)(e)4, Florida Statutes, authorizes subsidies for increased costs associated with potable water well construction for drinking water wells within delineated areas of hazardous waste contamination. The amount is limited to one-half the cost of the well including testing, or one-half the present-worth of the 10-year cost of providing and maintaining filters, and is subject to federal income tax laws.
The Water Supply Restoration Funding Program (Program) has a state-wide contracted plumber to install and maintain water filtration systems to private potable water wells at no cost to the property owners. The Program attempts to have these filtration system serviced based on on-going contamination. They are the property of the Department of Environmental Protection. There are three basic types of water filtration systems that are used - point of entry or granulated activated carbon, point of use or reverse osmosis or ion exchange filters.
When a property with a contaminated potable water well is adjacent to distribution lines from a public water system, a conn
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