Drinking Water Protection and Land Use Planning

• Resources and Workshops:
  
  • Drinking Water Protection Bulletins
  • Drinking Water Protection Fact Sheet (Groundwater) (pdf)
  • Oregon Wellhead Protection Program Guidance Manual (pdf)
  • Using Source Water Assessments in Land Use Planning (pdf)
• Safe Drinking Water Revolving Loan Fund (SDWRLF): This low interest loan program is designed to finance drinking water system improvements needed to maintain compliance with the federal Safe Drinking Water Act. Community and nonprofit non-community water systems are eligible for funding. General loan fund information includes how and when to submit a "Letter of Interest", and a list of projects ready to be funded. Click here for more information.

More About Source Water Protection

• Oregon Department of Environmental Quality (DEQ): Drinking Water Protection Program: Links to the definitive resource for implementing drinking water protection management strategies that include land use planning, risk evaluation, preventing potential contamination, and other topics.
  
  • DEQ List of Surface Water Systems with Completed Source Water Assessments
• Oregon Drinking Water Services:
  
  • Delineation of Groundwater Drinking Water Protection Areas in Oregon
  • Summary of Drinking Water Protection Program
  • Community and Nontransient Noncommunity Water Systems with Completed Delineation (pdf)
  • Community and Nontransient Noncommunity Water Sysytems with Source Water Assessments (pdf)
  • Transient Noncommunity Water Systems with Completed Source Water Assessments (temporarily unavailable)