2014 Idaho Statutes
Title 39 - HEALTH AND SAFETY
Chapter 1 - ENVIRONMENTAL QUALITY -- HEALTH
Section 39-102 - STATE POLICY ON ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION.
2. The goal of the legislature in enacting the ground water quality protection act of 1989 shall be to maintain the existing high quality of the state's ground water and to satisfy existing and projected future beneficial uses including drinking water, agricultural, industrial and aquacultural water supplies. All ground water shall be protected as a valuable public resource against unreasonable contamination or deterioration. The quality of degraded ground water shall be restored where feasible and appropriate to support identified beneficial uses.
3. In enacting this law, the legislature intends to prevent contamination of ground water from point and nonpoint sources of contamination to the maximum extent practical. In attaining the goals enumerated in subsections 1 and 2 of this section, the legislature wishes to enumerate the following ground water quality protection goals:
History:
[39-102, added 1972, ch. 347, sec. 2, p. 1017; am. 1989, ch. 421, sec. 1, p. 1028.]
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