Groundwater Protection Rule & Strategy

This rule sets out groundwater management strategies, groundwater classification criteria, and groundwater quality standards.  For more information, regarding this rule, please contact Rodney Pingree at 802-241-3418.

Groundwater Protection Rule and Strategy - Effective 2/1/2005 (392kb PDF)

Interim Groundwater Quality Standards
The Interim Groundwater Quality Standards listed in the following table either replace or are supplemental to the Primary Groundwater Quality Standards in Appendix One, Table 1, of the Groundwater Protection Rule and Strategy, Chapter 12 of the Environmental Protection Rules.

Procedure for Class IV Groundwater Reclassification 11/12/2000 (197kb PDF)

Procedure for Class I and II Groundwater Reclassification 8/12/2008 (108kb PDF)