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The following uses and activities are permitted within the wellhead protection area only upon the issuance of a wellhead protection area use permit by YTEP after approval by the Council:

(a) Agricultural operations, including but not limited to: cattle and other animal ranching operations, the growing of and fauna that can be sold for profit;

(b) Landfills and open dumps;

(c) Storage of liquid petroleum products, except when used for normal household use, outdoor maintenance, and the heating of a structure;

(d) Landfilling of sludge or septic system waste;

(e) Storage of chemicals unless such storage, including loading areas, is within a structure designated to fully contain any accidental spills;

(f) Storage of over 25 cubic yards of animal manure;

(g) Automobile junkyards;

(h) Installation of new private or public cesspools or septic tanks or other wastewater disposal system. However, the following activities are allowed:

(1) The replacement or repair of an existing treatment works that will not result in a design capacity greater than the design capacity of the existing treatment works;

(2) The replacement of existing subsurface sewage disposal system(s) with wastewater treatment works that will not result in a design capacity greater than the design capacity of the existing system(s);

(i) Industrial and commercial uses which discharge processed wastewater directly to septic tanks;

(j) Storage of fertilizers, as defined in the Yurok Tribal Code, unless such storage is within a structure designed to fully contain any accidental spills, with secondary containment;

(k) The use of septic system cleaners which contain toxic or hazardous chemicals, as defined by EPA guidelines;

(l) The application of pesticides, including herbicides, insecticides, fertilizers, fungicides, and rodenticides, for nondomestic or nonagricultural uses;

(m) Enlargement or alteration of existing uses that do not conform to this chapter;

(n) Those activities that involve the handling of toxic or hazardous materials in quantities greater than those associated with normal household use;

(o) The construction of ponds, pools or other water control devices;

(p) The construction of sewage disposal systems that do not meet septic tank sizing, leach field sizing and soil percolation requirements as will be established in the WQCP. [Ord. 73 § 4304, amended, 5/21/2020.]