Illinois Statutes Chapter 415. Environmental Safety § 5/14.1. Community water supply; minimum setback zone

(a) No new community water supply well may be located within 200 feet of any potential primary or potential secondary source or any potential route.

(b) No new community water supply well deriving water from fractured or highly permeable bedrock or from an unconsolidated and unconfined sand and gravel formation may be located within 400 feet of any potential primary or potential secondary source or any potential route. Such 400 foot setback is not applicable to any new community water supply well where the potential primary or potential secondary source is located within a site for which certification is currently in effect pursuant to Section 14.5.

(c) Nothing in this Section shall affect any location and construction requirement imposed in Section 6 of the “Illinois Water Well Construction Code”, approved August 20, 1965, as amended,  1 and the regulations promulgated thereunder.

(d) For the purposes of this Section, a community water supply well is “new” if it is constructed after September 24, 1987.

(e) Nothing in this Section shall affect the minimum distance requirements for new community water supply wells relative to common sources of sanitary pollution as specified by rules adopted under Section 17 of this Act.