Fiscal Note
This ordinance change allows the City of Madison to issue rebates of 50% of the cost, up to $1,000, for abandoning private wells within the City or the Madison Water Utility's service area. A private well abandonment rebate program is anticipated to be created and implemented beginning in 2010. The 2010 Landfill Operating Budget request will include expenditure authority for the rebate portion of the program, to be funded using Landfill Remediation fees. Other program costs (e.g. administration) will be included in the 2010 Water Utility Operating Budget.
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Amending Section 13.21(1), creating Section 13.21(9) and renumbering current Sections 13.21(9) and (10) of the Madison General Ordinances to create a well abandonment rebate of fifty percent (50%) of the cost of abandoning private wells up to one thousand dollars ($1,000), and amending Section 35.025(1) of the Madison General Ordinances to provide for funding of this rebate through the landfill remediation fee.
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DRAFTER'S ANALYSIS: This Ordinance amends Sec. 13.21(1) of the Madison General Ordinances, renumbers Secs. 13.21(9) and (10), and creates a new Sec. 13.21(9) that creates a well abandonment rebate of up to fifty percent (50%) of the cost, up to one thousand dollars ($1,000), of abandoning private wells located in the City of Madison and the Madison Water Utility service area. The funding of this rebate is being provided for through the landfill remediation fees, and is established through cross-references in the newly created Sec. 13.21(9) and the amendments also being made to Sec. 35.025. Due to the hazard improperly abandoned wells pose to the groundwater quality, their impacts have similar qualities to landfills. Therefore, all residents of the City of Madison and customers of the Madison Water Utility benefit by the proper abandonment of these wells as required by Sec. 13.21. By providing a rebate for property owners to abandon private wells, it is hoped that more ...
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