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R.I. Gen. Laws § 46-14-1. Contamination of drinking water sources prohibited
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Bathing, swimming, discharge of any sewage or drainage or refuse or polluting matter which may pollute or corrupt or impair the purity or quality of a public drinking water supply or which renders the water supply injurious to health or poses a potential significant risk to publi…
R.I. Gen. Laws § 46-14-2. Order to remove polluting matter from premises
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(a) The director of health, when satisfied that any sewage, drainage, refuse, or polluting matter exists in a locality such that there is danger that the sewage, drainage, refuse, or polluting matter may pollute, or corrupt, or impair the purity or quality of any of the waters de…
R.I. Gen. Laws § 46-14-2.1. Contamination of private well — Notice to municipal water supply agency
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Any state department or agency which discovers or receives information that a private well or water supply has become contaminated, which contamination may pose a potential danger to the local public water supply, shall, upon receipt of the information, provide written notificati…
R.I. Gen. Laws § 46-14-2.2. Contamination of local water supply — Notice to city or town
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If the state department of health discovers that a water supply to a municipality has become contaminated, which contamination may pose a potential danger to the public, the director of health shall, within forty-eight (48) hours of the discovery of the contamination, notify the …