§ 414-4.202. Purpose and disclaimer.  


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  • This chapter is enacted to provide for the protection of the county's groundwater sources from degradation that could result from inadequately constructed, defective, or improperly abandoned wells, to provide for regulation of small water systems in accordance with federal standards as mandated by the state, and to require submission of tentative subdivision maps and building permit applications to the health officer for him to review the availability of an approved water supply prior to recordation of final maps and issuance of building permits. Notwithstanding the foregoing, by enacting this chapter, the county of Contra Costa neither assumes nor undertakes any obligations or responsibilities of any kind to assure, guarantee, preserve, or otherwise guard the adequacy, potability, or any other qualitative or quantitative feature of the county's groundwater sources in any manner whatsoever, and no cause of action against the county, its agents, directors, or employees shall be deemed to accrue under any theory whatsoever on the basis of the enactment of this chapter or any subsequent amendment thereto.

(Ord. 81-56 § 1).