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Article II. Wellhead Overlay (WHO) District
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20.30.070 WHO district intent, effect on uses, and effect on standards.
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A. District Intent. The wellhead overlay (WHO) district is intended to protect the public water supplies by minimizing the potential for contamination.

Land Use Restrictions.

•Uses that utilize or contain volatile, poisonous, toxic, or other material hazardous to the potability of water are restricted or prohibited

Development Standard Restrictions.

•Require certain land uses to connect to municipal sewer if in the wellhead overlay district

•Prevent underground storage tanks in the wellhead overlay district

Application of District.

•Areas within the 5-year recharge area for a public water supply or well field as delineated by study or by rule in the Indiana Administrative Code

•Wellhead recharge areas for municipal wells or wells used by manufactured home parks or other “shared” wellhead

B. Effect on Uses. All permitted uses in the base zoning district are permitted in the WHO district except as prohibited as follows. All special exception uses permitted in the base zoning district are allowed as such in the WHO district except as prohibited as follows.

The following land uses and site features shall not be permitted in the WHO district:

•Animal feed lot

•Animal mortality storage or disposal

•Cemetery

•Chemical storage or distribution

•Confined feeding operation

•Construction material landfill

•Crematorium

•Ethanol plant (or other biofuel plant)

•Fertilizer storage or distribution

•Golf course

•Gravel or sand mining

•Incinerator

•Industry that uses heavy metals or toxic chemicals in its manufacturing process or other operations

•Industry that has heavy metals or toxic chemicals as a by-product from its manufacturing process or other operations

•Junk yard

•Recycling processing

•Rendering plant

•Road salt storage

•Sanitary landfill or refuse dump

•Scrap metal yard

•Septic tanks sized for more than a single-family dwelling

•Settling ponds from industrial processes

•Sewage lagoons

•Spreading of animal waste on land

•Spreading of sewage treatment plant sludge on land

•Storage tanks (hazardous)

•Wastewater treatment facility

C. Effect on Standards. The development standards from the base zoning district shall apply to the WHO district in addition to the development standards described in JCC 20.30.100, WHO district development standards. [Ord. 12-27-11 § 3.07.]