Articles About wellhead protection

• Plan to protect local drinking water updated

  By Megan BachmanApril 19, 2018

  

  An update the Village of Yellow Springs Wellhead Protection Plan, first passed in 2001, features new strategies to protect the aquifer that is the source of local drinking water.

• Village Council— Morris Bean, police ‘overreach‘ are topics

  By Diane ChiddisterJuly 14, 2016

  

  At their July 5 meeting, Council members heard from villagers concerned about the environmental practices of the local company Morris Bean, and also about the “overreach” of some local police officers.

• EPA cites Morris Bean for discharge

  By Megan BachmanOctober 2, 2013

  Morris Bean & Company will soon bid out a project to fill in a sinkhole at its Hyde Road plant after the Ohio Environmental Protection Agency cited the company for releasing industrial wastewater into the sinkhole and potentially contaminating groundwater.

• Plan dropped; wellhead likely safe

  By Lauren HeatonMay 31, 2012

  Sometime in 1988, a host of volatile organic chemicals were found deep in the aquifer that feeds the Village’s municipal drinking water wells. Around the same time, the federal government mandated safeguarding the quality of the groundwater.