Resources
Source Water Protection Guidance Documents
There are numerous source water protection guidance documents and tools that have been developed by the Nevada Division of Environmental Protection. The below documents, fact sheets, and tools may help community leaders, consultants, public water systems representatives and the general pubic to better understand source water protection efforts in Nevada and how to address preventable contamination of their community’s drinking water sources.
Source Water Protection Publications and Factsheets:
- WHP and Nevada Regulations for Protection of Ground Water
- WHPP: Tools for Local Government - EPA publication
- Local Authority for Groundwater and WHP
- Abandoning Unused Water Wells
- Home Heating Oil Tanks - Fact Sheet
- Operation and Maintenance of Large-Capacity Septic Systems – Fact Sheet
- Domestic Septic Systems – Fact Sheet
- Domestic Animals and Nitrate
- Groundwater Protection Public Education Materials
- Management Approaches for Potential Sources of Contamination
- Safer Alternatives to Hazardous Household Products