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HOUSE DOCKET, NO. 3603 FILED ON: 1/17/2025
HOUSE . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . No. 936
The Commonwealth of Massachusetts
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PRESENTED BY:
Michelle M. DuBois
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To the Honorable Senate and House of Representatives of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts in General
Court assembled:
The undersigned legislators and/or citizens respectfully petition for the adoption of the accompanying bill:
An Act protecting public drinking water by further regulating solid waste disposal facilities.
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PETITION OF:
NAME:DISTRICT/ADDRESS :DATE ADDED:Michelle M. DuBois10th Plymouth1/17/2025 1 of 2
HOUSE DOCKET, NO. 3603 FILED ON: 1/17/2025
HOUSE . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . No. 936
By Representative DuBois of Brockton, a petition (accompanied by bill, House, No. 936) of
Michelle M. DuBois for legislation to further regulate the building or expansion of solid waste
disposal facilities. Environment and Natural Resources.
[SIMILAR MATTER FILED IN PREVIOUS SESSION
SEE HOUSE, NO. 788 OF 2023-2024.]
The Commonwealth of Massachusetts
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In the One Hundred and Ninety-Fourth General Court
(2025-2026)
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An Act protecting public drinking water by further regulating solid waste disposal facilities.
Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives in General Court assembled, and by the authority
of the same, as follows:
1 SECTION 1. Section 150A of chapter 111 of the General Laws, as appearing in the 2020
2Official Edition, is hereby amended by inserting after the second paragraph, on line 37, the
3following paragraph:-
4 No site shall be assigned as a place for a new facility or for the expansion of an existing
5facility if the site is located within a zone of 400 feet of: (1) a public water supply well or well
6field; (2) that area of an aquifer which: (i) contributes water to a to a well under recharge and
7pumping conditions that allow safe yield of the well for 180 days without any natural recharge
8occurring, and (ii) is bounded by the groundwater divides which result from pumping the well
9and by contact of the edge of the aquifer with less permeable materials; or (3) that area of an
10aquifer which contributes water to a spring under naturally flowing conditions. Such zone may 2 of 2
11include streams or lakes that act as recharge boundaries. Such zone shall be considered to extend
12up-gradient to its point of intersection with prevailing hydrogeologic boundaries.
13 SECTION 2. The department of environmental protection may promulgate rules and
14regulations necessary to carry out the requirements of this act.