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Water Plan (Pioneer Valley) 2002
sec.18AGeneral ecological outcomes
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sec.18A General ecological outcomes
Each of the following is a general ecological outcome for groundwater in the plan area— to maintain biological diversity of groundwater-dependent ecosystems; to maintain groundwater levels at depths, and groundwater flows, providing for the groundwater requirements of groundwater-dependent ecosystems; to maintain the capability of groundwater to flow from a part of an aquifer to another part of the aquifer or to watercourses, lakes, estuaries, near-shore marine systems or wetlands. s 18A ins 2009 SL No. 212 s 20
- (a) to maintain biological diversity of groundwater-dependent ecosystems;
- (b) to maintain groundwater levels at depths, and groundwater flows, providing for the groundwater requirements of groundwater-dependent ecosystems;
- (c) to maintain the capability of groundwater to flow from a part of an aquifer to another part of the aquifer or to watercourses, lakes, estuaries, near-shore marine systems or wetlands.