{"id":4,"date":"2021-06-22T17:59:59","date_gmt":"2021-06-22T17:59:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.env.nm.gov\/ground-water-quality\/?page_id=4"},"modified":"2021-12-07T17:29:55","modified_gmt":"2021-12-07T17:29:55","slug":"ground-water-quality-bureau","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.env.nm.gov\/gwqb\/","title":{"rendered":"Ground Water Quality Bureau"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">The Ground Water Quality Bureau protects New Mexico\u2019s groundwater resources as mandated by the Water Quality Act and the New Mexico Ground and Surface Water Protection Regulations (20.6 NMAC) and identifies, investigates, and cleans up contaminated sites to protect human health and the environment.<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>The Ground Water Quality Bureau:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li>Issues groundwater discharge <a href=\"\/gwqb\/permits\/\">permits<\/a> to prevent contamination of resources;<\/li><li>Implements the department\u2019s responsibilities under the New Mexico Mining Act to ensure that environmental issues are addressed and standards are met;<\/li><li>Identifies, investigates, and remediates inactive hazardous waste sites through implementation of the federal <a href=\"\/gwqb\/sos\/\">Superfund program<\/a>;<\/li><li>Implements the <a href=\"\/gwqb\/ros-vrp\/\">Voluntary Remediation Program<\/a> and <a href=\"\/gwqb\/brownfields-program\/\">Brownfields Program<\/a>;<\/li><li>Oversees groundwater investigations and <a href=\"\/gwqb\/gwqb-cleanup\/\">clean-ups<\/a>; and<\/li><li><a href=\"\/gwqb\/funding-and-assistance\/\">Assists<\/a> communities and the regulated community through a variety of programs, like the &#8220;<a href=\"\/gwqb\/water-fairs\/\">water fairs<\/a>&#8220;.<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">GWQB Regulated Sites of Public Interest<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>Please visit our <a href=\"\/gwqb\/gwqb-sites-of-interest\/\">sites of interest page<\/a> to learn more about GWQB regulated sites with high public interest. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\"> <\/h2>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Ground Water Quality Bureau protects New Mexico\u2019s groundwater resources as mandated by the Water Quality Act and the New Mexico Ground and Surface Water Protection Regulations (20.6 NMAC) and identifies, investigates, and cleans up contaminated sites to protect human health and the environment. The Ground Water Quality Bureau: Issues groundwater discharge permits to prevent [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-4","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.env.nm.gov\/gwqb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/4","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.env.nm.gov\/gwqb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.env.nm.gov\/gwqb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.env.nm.gov\/gwqb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.env.nm.gov\/gwqb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4"}],"version-history":[{"count":13,"href":"https:\/\/www.env.nm.gov\/gwqb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/4\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":276,"href":"https:\/\/www.env.nm.gov\/gwqb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/4\/revisions\/276"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.env.nm.gov\/gwqb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}