{"data":{"id":"us-me/22-m.r.s.-2601-a","jurisdiction":"us-me","citation":"22 M.R.S. §2601-A","heading":"Scope","body":"This chapter establishes a system designed to help ensure public health; to allow the State, municipalities and public water systems to identify significant public water supplies and strive for a higher degree of protection around source water areas or areas that are used as public drinking water supplies; to allow the State, municipalities and water systems to pursue watershed or wellhead protection activities around significant public water supplies; and to improve testing for and treatment of contaminants or properties in residential private drinking water wells.","path":["TITLE 22: HEALTH AND WELFARE","SUBTITLE 2: HEALTH","PART 5: FOODS AND DRUGS","CHAPTER 601: WATER FOR HUMAN CONSUMPTION","SUBCHAPTER 1: GENERAL PROVISIONS"],"source_url":"https://legislature.maine.gov/statutes/22/title22sec2601-A.html","current_through":"January 1, 2026","vintage":"","retrieved_at":"2026-09-04T15:12:31Z","sha256":"3cb8415762ec30f370697e1328c2acf59d937f1c3df7479dec366a8c713c35c1","source_id":"us-me","stale":false,"prev":"us-me/22-m.r.s.-2601","next":"us-me/22-m.r.s.-2602"},"notice":"GroundRules: Original legal text. Not legal advice."}