Water Supply Protection Committee

NEXT MEETING: 
January 25, 2024, 8:00 am 
                                                         

Overview

Works with town staff, appropriate consulting and engineering firms, and other town boards and committees to ensure the protection of the Town of Amherst's water supply. It does this by:

1. monitoring the current and projected water supply needs of the Town, and the infrastructure needed to provide that volume of drinking water;
2. monitoring the presence or possible introduction of hazardous and/or toxic materials into the Town's drinking water;  and
3. analyzing the significance of trends in data monitored in the Atkins and Pelham watersheds, and Lawrence Swamp aquifer in respect to drought.

The committee makes its recommendations to Town Council and the Town Manager.

SOLAR WHITE PAPER

In 2022, a subcommittee of the Water Supply Protection Committee researched and wrote a white paper on the impacts of large-scale solar arrays on drinking water. The final draft of the white paper can be found by clicking here Version OptionsWater Supply Protection CommitteeHeadline Version OptionsWater Supply Protection CommitteeHeadline OptionsWater Supply Protection CommitteeHeadline.