HB 1876 - DIGEST

     Provides that each year, the department of health shall determine the volume of water annually withdrawn by each public water system with one thousand or more service connections and shall determine the annual average amount of water withdrawn per service connection in the system.

     Directs the department to group the systems by geographic areas with similar climatological characteristics and, using these averages and adjusted averages as appropriate, shall determine the annual average amount of water withdrawn per service connection in each such group.  This average for the public water systems in each geographic group constitutes the water withdrawal target rate for the group.

     Requires the department to publish these target rates annually.