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Watershed - Any region or area measured in a horizontal topographic divide
which directs water runoff from precipitation, normally by gravity, into a stream, a
body of impounded surface water, or a coastal embayment, or any region or area
measured by a groundwater divide which directs groundwater into a stream, a
body of impounded surface water, or a coastal embayment.
Water Supply Well - Any public or private source of groundwater used for human
consumption, including but not limited to, a source approved for such use by the
local Board of Health or the Department in accordance with M.G.L. c. 111, §
122A or 310 CMR 22.00.
Wellhead Protection Areas - Areas of protection around a public drinking water
supply - see in-depth definitions on the Drinking Water website.
Wetland - Any land area or surface area so defined by the Massachusetts
Wetlands Protection Act, M.G.L. c. 131, § 40 and regulations promulgated
pursuant thereto at 310 CMR 10.00 or pursuant to § 404 of the Federal Water
Pollution Control Act, 33 U.S.C. 1341.
Working Level – The level between the pump “off” elevation and the high level
alarm elevation.
which directs water runoff from precipitation, normally by gravity, into a stream, a
body of impounded surface water, or a coastal embayment, or any region or area
measured by a groundwater divide which directs groundwater into a stream, a
body of impounded surface water, or a coastal embayment.
Water Supply Well - Any public or private source of groundwater used for human
consumption, including but not limited to, a source approved for such use by the
local Board of Health or the Department in accordance with M.G.L. c. 111, §
122A or 310 CMR 22.00.
Wellhead Protection Areas - Areas of protection around a public drinking water
supply - see in-depth definitions on the Drinking Water website.
Wetland - Any land area or surface area so defined by the Massachusetts
Wetlands Protection Act, M.G.L. c. 131, § 40 and regulations promulgated
pursuant thereto at 310 CMR 10.00 or pursuant to § 404 of the Federal Water
Pollution Control Act, 33 U.S.C. 1341.
Working Level – The level between the pump “off” elevation and the high level
alarm elevation.
