§ 415-29 MW-1 Municipal Well Recharge Area Overlay District.
A. Purpose. The Village recognizes that consequences of certain land use activities, whether intentional or accidental, can seriously impair groundwater quality. The purpose of the Municipal Well Recharge Area Overlay District (MW-1) is to protect municipal groundwater resources from certain land use activities by imposing appropriate restrictions upon lands located within the approximate groundwater recharge area of the Village's municipal wells. The restrictions imposed herein are in addition to those of the underlying residential, commercial, or industrial zoning districts or any other provisions of this chapter.
B. Zones A and B; well diameter; determination of prohibited use.
(1) The Municipal Well Recharge Area Overlay District is hereby divided into Zone A and Zone B as follows:
(a) Zone A is identified as the primary source of water for the municipal well aquifer and as the area most likely to transmit groundwater contaminants to the municipal wells. Zone A is more restrictive than Zone B.
(b) Zone B is identified as a secondary source of water for the municipal well aquifer and as an area where there is a lower probability of surface contaminants reaching the municipal well fields. Zone B is less restrictive than Zone A.
(2) Well diameter.
(a) The well on Cramer Street, Zone A and Zone B, shall be 200 feet in diameter.
(b) The well on Walter Road, Zone A, shall be 500 feet and Zone B should be 1/4 mile in diameter.
(3) Whether a prohibited use is occurring within a zone shall be determined by measuring the distance from the center of the well to the actual edge of the prohibited use and not the edge of a building or structure enclosing that use.
C. Zone A prohibited uses. The following land uses are hereby found to have a high potential to contaminate or have already caused groundwater contamination problems in Wisconsin and elsewhere. The following principal uses are hereby prohibited within Zone A of the Municipal Well Recharge Area Overlay District. Unless otherwise stated, the prohibited uses identified below apply to a facility that engages in the prohibited activity as its principal activity. Unless otherwise stated, where a prohibited land use activity occurs at a facility in a capacity that is merely accessory to the principal activity in which the facility is engaged, the prohibitions of this subsection do not apply with respect to those accessory activities.
(1) Areas for dumping or disposal of garbage, refuse, trash or demolition material.
(2) Asphalt products manufacturing plants.
(3) Automobile washing facilities.
(4) Automobile service stations.
(5) Building materials and products sales.
(6) Cartage and express facilities.
(7) Cemeteries.
(8) Chemical storage, sale, processing or manufacturing plants.
(9) Dry-cleaning establishments.
(10) Electronic circuit assembly plants.
(11) Electroplating plants.
(12) Exterminating shops.
(13) Fertilizer manufacturing or storage plants.
(14) Foundries and forge plants.
(15) Garages for repair and servicing of motor vehicles, including body repair, painting or engine rebuilding.
(16) Highway salt storage areas.
(17) Industrial liquid waste storage areas, including as an accessory activity, unless the Village Engineer certifies that the industrial liquid waste storage area in question does not pose a threat to the groundwater.
(18) Junkyards and auto graveyards.
(19) Metal reduction and refinement plants.
(20) Mining operations.
(21) Motor and machinery service and assembly shops.
(22) Motor freight terminals.
(23) Pain products manufacturing.
(24) Petroleum products storage or processing, including as an accessory activity, unless the Village Engineer certifies that the petroleum products storage or processing in question does not pose a threat to the groundwater.
(25) Photography studios, including the developing of film and pictures.
(26) Plastics manufacturing.
(27) Pulp and paper manufacturing.
(28) Residential dwelling units on lots less than 15,000 square feet in area. However, in any residence district, on a lot of record on the effective date of this chapter, a single-family dwelling may be established regardless of the size of the lot, provided that all other requirements of this chapter are complied with.
(29) Septage disposal sites, including as an accessory use.
(30) Sludge disposal sites, including as an accessory use.
(31) Storage and manufacture of toxic or hazardous materials; disposal of toxic or hazardous materials regardless of whether such disposal is a principal or accessory use.
(32) Underground petroleum products storage tanks for industrial, commercial, residential or other uses, including as an accessory use.
(33) Woodworking and wood products manufacturing.
D. Zone A conditional uses. The following conditional uses may be allowed in the Municipal Well Recharge Area Overlay District, subject to the provisions of Article
IV:
(1) Any other business or industrial use not listed as a prohibited use.
(2) Animal waste storage areas and facilities.
(3) Center-pivot or other large-scale irrigated agricultural operations.
