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No structure or facility of the following enumerated and listed types shall be located within the distances hereinafter set forth from a deep public well within the city of Ida Grove, Iowa:

(1) Well house floor drains – five feet.

(2) Water treatment plant wastes – 50 feet.

(3) Sanitary and industrial discharges – 400 feet.

(4) Floor drains from pump house to surface – none within five feet:

(a) Five to 10 feet water main materials enclosed in concrete permitted;

(b) Ten to 25 feet must be water main material;

(c) Twenty-five to 75 feet must be watertight sewer pipe.

(5) Floor drains to sewer, water plant wastes, storm or sanitary sewers or drains:

(a) None permitted within 25 feet;

(b) If closer than 75 feet, must be water main material;

(c) If between 75 and 200 feet, must be watertight sewer pipe.

(6) Force mains:

(a) None permitted within 75 feet;

(b) If within 400 feet, must be water main materials.

(7) Land application of solid waste – 100 feet.

(8) Irrigation of wastewater – 100 feet.

(9) Concrete vaults and septic tanks – 100 feet.

(10) Mechanical wastewater treatment plants – 200 feet.

(11) Cesspools and earth pit privies – 200 feet.

(12) Soil absorption fields – 200 feet.

(13) Lagoons – 400 feet.

(14) Chemical application to ground surface – 100 feet; above ground storage – 100 feet; on or underground storage – 200 feet.

(15) Animal pasturage – 50 feet.

(16) Animal enclosure – 100 feet.

(17) Animal wastes:

(a) Land application of solids – 100 feet;

(b) Land application of liquid or slurry – 100 feet;

(c) Storage tank – 100 feet;

(d) Solids stockpile – 200 feet;

(e) Storage basin or lagoon – 400 feet.

(18) Earthen silage storage trench or pit – 100 feet.

(19) Basements, pits, sumps – 10 feet.

(20) Flowing streams or other surface water bodies – 50 feet.

(21) Cisterns – 50 feet.

(22) Cemeteries – 500 feet.

(23) Private wells – 200 feet.

(24) Solid waste disposal sites – 1,000 feet. [Ord. 427, 1993; Code 1975 § 6-1.0403.]