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Agricultural |
Animal burial areas |
Irrigation sites |
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Animal feedlots |
Manure spreading areas/pits |
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Fertilizer storage/use |
Pesticide storage/use |
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Commercial |
Airports |
Jewelry/metal plating |
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Auto repair shops |
Laundromats |
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Boatyards |
Medical institutions |
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Construction areas |
Paint shops |
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Car washes |
Photography establishments |
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Cemeteries |
Railroad tracks and yards |
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Dry cleaners |
Research laboratories |
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Gas stations |
Scrap and junkyards |
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Golf courses |
Storage tanks |
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Industrial |
Asphalt plants |
Petroleum production/ |
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Chemical manufacture/ |
storage |
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storage |
Pipelines |
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Electronics manufacture |
Septage lagoons and sludge |
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Electroplaters |
Storage tanks |
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Foundries/metal fabricators |
Toxic and hazardous spills |
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Machine/metal working shops |
Wells (operating/abandoned) |
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Mining and mine drainage |
Wood preserving facilities |
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Residential |
Fuel oil |
Septic systems, cesspools |
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Furniture stripping/ |
Sewer lines |
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refinishing |
Swimming pools (chemicals) |
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Household hazardous |
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Household lawn chemicals |
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Other |
Hazardous waste landfills |
Recycling/reduction facilities |
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Highway spills |
Road deicing operations |
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Municipal incinerators |
Road maintenance depots |
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Municipal landfills |
Storm water drains/basins |
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Municipal sewer lines |
Transfer stations |
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Open burning sites |
Well/borehole drilling |
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| NOTE: This list is not exhaustive. Common sources of ground-water contamination include, but are not limited to, the above sources. (Adapted from US EPA, 1991, Protecting Local Ground-Water Supplies Through Wellhead Protection: EPA 570/9-91-007, 18 p.) |
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