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reporting to the state violations of the isolation distance, and asking a local governmental unit to regulate these sources. Cleaning up contaminated ground water can be technically difficult, extremely expensive, and sometimes simply cannot be done. Contaminated ground water also affects the community by discouraging new businesses or residents from locating in that community. Vulnerability Assessment. Wellfield contamination can have the following potential impacts within a community: • Potable water system loss or disruption; • Sewer system outage; • Human health and safety; • Psychological hardship; • Economic disruption; and • Disruption of community services. Wellfield contamination has not been a major problem for most of Indian River County. There is some potential exposure to this hazard in the eastern portion of the County, but overall, the County vulnerability to this hazard is considered low. The County addresses the issue of wellfield contamination in the Comprehensive Growth Management Plan — Future Land Use Element. Risk Assessment. Historic Events. Due to the low probability of occurrence, this hazard will not be fully profiled. f. Communications Failure — Hazard Identification. As society emerges from industrial production into the age of information, we are seeing new kinds of technological accidents/disasters. Recently, a communications failure occurred that was the worst in 37 years of satellite serve. Some major problems with the telecommunications satellite Galaxy IV drastically affected 120 companies in the paging industry (Rubin, 1998). Radio and other forms of news broadcasts also were affected. The pager failure not only affected personal and business communications, but emergency management and medical personnel as well. Although telephone calls by land lines are among the safest communication technology, and the most resistant to space Indian River County Comprehensive Emergency Management Plan Basic Page 74