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Farm•A•Syst: An Action Program for Safe Drinking Water

Editor's note
The following abstract describes a publication that is only available for purchase. A link to ordering information is on this page.

The goal of Farm•A•Syst is to help you protect the groundwater that supplies your drinking water.

Farm•A•Syst fact sheets provide information on factors that influence pollution risks, health and legal concerns related to specific pollutants, and sources of additional information and assistance.

This folder contains the following nine worksheets and seven fact sheets:

• WQ651, Assessing the Risk of Groundwater Contamination From Drinking-Water Well Condition
  This worksheet and fact sheet, will take you step by step through your drinking water well condition and management, rank your activities according to "risk level," and determine which of your practices are safe and which practices need modification.
• WQ652 to Assessing the Risk of Groundwater Contamination From Pesticide Storage and Handling
  This worksheet and fact sheet, takes you step by step through your pesticide handling, storage and disposal, ranks your activities, helps you analyze "risk levels" of pesticide practices and determine which practices are safe and which need modification.
• WQ653, Assessing the Risk of Groundwater Contamination From Fertilizer Storage and Handling
  This worksheet and fact sheet, will analyze your fertilizer practices, rank your activities and take you step by step through fertilizer handling, storage and disposal.
• WQ654 to Assessing the Risk of Groundwater Contamination From Petroleum Product Storage
  This worksheet and fact sheet, takes you step by step through your petroleum-product storage practices, analyzes the information and ranks it to determines which practices require modification.
• WQ655, Assessing the Risk of Groundwater Contamination From Hazardous-Waste Management
  This worksheet and fact sheet, analyzes hazardous waste practices with a ranking system to determine which practices require modification.
• WQ656, Assessing the Risk of Groundwater Contamination From Household Wastewater Treatment
  This worksheet and fact sheet, analyzes the "risk level" of household wastewater treatment practices by ranking and determines which practices need modification.
• WQ657, Assessing the Risk of Groundwater Contamination From Animal Manure Management Facilities
  This worksheet and fact sheet, ranks activities according to how they might affect groundwater and determines which activities need adjustments.
• WQ658, Reducing the Risk of Groundwater Contamination by Site Evaluation
  This worksheet, helps you determine how physical characteristics of your farmstead site, such as soil type, bedrock characteristics and depth to groundwater, affect groundwater.
• WQ659, Assessing the Risk of Groundwater Contamination: Overall Farmstead Assessment
  This worksheet, combines the rankings from previous worksheets to determine your risk of groundwater contamination.

Keywords

• Evaluate groundwater pollution potential
• Farmstead activities and structures
• Protect drinking water

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• Folder with 16 publications

WQ650, new January 1996