Legislation/Regulation -- Federal Groundwater Laws (PDF)

Articles in this section of the JOURNAL are dedicated to providing current information about legislative and regulatory developments pertinent to the drinking water industry. They address needs and concerns of water utilities from a practical standpoint; they are not intended to reflect official positions or policies of A WW A. Robert J. Saner, of the Washington , D.C., law firm White, Fine & Verville, and Frederick W. Pontius, A WWA associate director for regulatory affairs, prepared this summary of existing federal groundwater statutes based on a larger groundwater legislative project conducted by the A WWA Groundwater Protection Technical Advisory Workgroup and financed by the Water Industry Technical Action Fund. [The SDWA] empowers USE PA to bring an action for injunctive relief against anyone contaminating a groundwater source of public drinking water.