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Public Health Aspects of Individual Water Wells a
Author(s) -
Hancock John C.
Publication year - 1963
Publication title -
groundwater
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.84
H-Index - 94
eISSN - 1745-6584
pISSN - 0017-467X
DOI - 10.1111/j.1745-6584.1963.tb01923.x
Subject(s) - scope (computer science) , spillover effect , public health , enforcement , subject (documents) , government (linguistics) , political science , health department , local government , public administration , environmental planning , business , law , environmental science , economics , medicine , computer science , nursing , linguistics , philosophy , library science , microeconomics , programming language
Local government in Michigan, and perhaps in other states, must try to bring the best thinking there is concerning solutions to health problems which are within their legally designated area of responsibility. One such local health department activity in Michigan is the construction and operation of private individual water well systems. Monroe County, which is just beginning to feel the effects of the suburban spillover from Detroit, Michigan, and Toledo, Ohio, recognized, in 1961, the need for regulation of such water well systems. The subsequent development of a Code, and its enforcement have made us realize that we are just beginning to fully understand a subject which is much broader in scope from a public health standpoint than just construction details and bacterial tests.