SECTION .0500 - CENTRAL COASTAL PLAIN CAPACITY USE AREA

 

15A NCAC 02E .0501       DECLARATION AND DELINEATION OF CENTRAL

COASTAL PLAIN CAPACITY USE AREA

The area encompassed by the following 15 North Carolina

counties and adjoining creeks, streams, and rivers is hereby declared and

delineated as the Central Coastal Plain Capacity Use Area: Beaufort, Carteret,

Craven, Duplin, Edgecombe, Greene, Jones, Lenoir, Martin, Onslow, Pamlico,

Pitt, Washington, Wayne and Wilson.  The Environmental Management Commission finds

that the use of ground water requires coordination and limited regulation in

this delineated area for protection of the public interest.  The intent of this

Section is to protect the long term productivity of aquifers within the

designated area and to allow the use of ground water for beneficial uses at

rates which do not exceed the recharge rate of the aquifers within the

designated area.

 

History Note:        Authority G.S. 143-215.13;

Eff. August 1, 2002.