Guidance and Policies

On this page you can find a compilation of ODW guidance documents and policies.

Manuals:

• Source Water Manual
• Project Review & Permit Procedures Manual
• Field Operations Manual
• Enforcement Manual
• Compliance Sampling and Reporting Guidance Manual
• Policy on Administration of the Equitable Access to Drinking Water Fund

Working Memos:

ODW’s current active working memos can be found in the Virginia Regulatory Town Hall Website.  We are in the process of replacing the working memos with comprehensive technical manuals, which will be available on this page upon completion.

Other Guidance Docs:

• Procedural Guidelines for Drinking Water Funding Recipients
• EPA: Revised Public notification Handbook
• EPA: Public Notification Handbook for Transient Non-community Water Systems
• EPA: Consumer Confidence Rule Compliance tools and documents
• EPA: Guidance on Sampling for Unknown Contaminants in Drinking Water
• Guidance on Main Break Types and Responses
  • Main Break Reporting Checklist
  • Main Break Types and Responses – chlorinated system
  • Main Break Types and Responses – non-chlorinated system
• Water Well Registration and GW-2 report template
• VDH Well Yield and Drawdown Test Procedures
• Well Development Handbook