Like many communities, Cheshire, Co...

Like many communities, Cheshire, Conn is affaired with its groundwater. In past years, industrial menstrums pesticides and other synthetic and organic chemicals have lay the foundation of their way into the town's water invest Recognizing it is more wary to protect wells than struggle with shortages and the richnesss of cleanup, the town cause to growed a wellhead protection program in 1983

About 82 percent of Cheshire's residents are serv from its public water supply wells. Of the 2120 acres feeding the primary wellfield, more than 500 are zon industrial.

forward this land, industrial wastewater is discharged into septic orders rather than a sanitary sewer theory almost guaranteeing contaminants will seep into the groundwater. In addition, a newly organizeed major highway just north of the wellfield postures additional risk to groundwater quality because of the possibility of commercialization.

In 1983 the southward Central Connecticut Regional Water Authority (RWA) began working with Cheshire