Get Informed Then Get Involved

Local communities are responsible for protecting their community’s drinking water, and as a citizen, you can directly affect the success or failure of your community’s drinking water protection efforts. You can take an active role in protecting your community’s drinking water sources by understanding where your drinking water comes from and finding out about its quality, by conserving the amount of water that you use, and learning ways to prevent your water supply from becoming contaminated. 

Where do you live?

• Wellhead Protection GIS MAP (2002)
• EarthTech Land Use & Capture Zones Map 2008
• Baldwin Pond Wells Composite Map (November 2010)
• Campbell and Chamberlain Composite Map (November 2010)
• Happy Hollow and Meadowview Composite Map (November 2010)
• Zone I
• Capture Zone
• Zone II
• Aquifer Protection District

Water Conservation

• Water Saving Tips
• Rain Barrels
• Conservation Tips
• Rainfall
• Standards
• Stressed Basins
• Drought Advisory
• WPC How to Make Rain Gauge (April 2009)
• Drought Management Water Saving Tips (20 August 2010)
• Why Save Water

Septic System Maintenance

• Homeowner’s Guide
• Title V
• Care & Maintenance
• Inspections & Repairs
• New Construction
• Innovative/Alternative Technologies
• Financial Assistance

Lawn Maintenance

• Irrigation System
• Pesticide Fertilizer Application Guidance Horsley Witten (January 2007)

Toilets

• How your toilet works

Salt usage

• EPA Guidance for Sodium in Drinking Water
• WHS Parking Lot Salt Use (13 January 2009)
• Happy Hollow Sodium Test Data (Feb 1994-Nov 2010)
• Sodium dietary health risk
• MassDEP guidance Sodium 2006

Household Hazardous Waste 

• Wayland Board of Health Household Hazardous Waste Collection Registration Form
• Handling & Management
• Automotive Waste
• Hazard Free Home Checklist 
• Mercury
• Pharmaceuticals
• Electronics Recycling
• Green Living

Underground Storage Tanks (USTs)

• Protecting water from leaking USTs
• Managing USTs
• Important Compliance Information

Water Testing

• Certified Labs

Oil Heat

• Homeowner Heating Safety Law Requirements 

Cemeteries

• Cemeteries, Burials and the Water Environment – Guidance NI (2009)
• Groundwater Contamination from Cemeteries – Case Studies (2010)
• Hydrogeological Context of Cemetery Operations and Planning in Australia (2002)
• Pollution Potential of Cemeteries UK (2002)
• WHO Impact of Cemeteries on Environment and Public Health (1998)
• North Cemetery Topographical Base Plan
• MGL chap 114 secs 34, 35 – Cemeteries & Burials
• Planning Board Decision (18 June 2002)
• Board of Health minutes (4 June 02)
• North Cemetery Capital Appropriation Request FY13-17_0001
• Bidding Documents (21 February 2012)
• WaylandWells Memo (28 January 2012)