Idaho Code 42-3913 – Minimum Standards — Rules and Regulations — Adoption
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The water resource board shall adopt minimum standards for the construction or abandonment of deep injection wells. Such standards shall require each deep injection well to be so constructed as to protect the ground water of this state from waste and unreasonable contamination. Each licensed well driller or operator will be furnished with a copy of the adopted standards, and will be required to construct each deep injection well drilled after the effective date of said rules and regulations in compliance with the determined standards. Failure by a licensed driller to comply with such standards shall constitute cause for revocation of the well driller’s license in accordance with section 42-238, Idaho Code.
The water resource board shall also adopt minimum standards for the construction and abandonment of shallow injection wells. Any person who constructs or abandons a shallow injection well without complying with such standards shall be guilty of a misdemeanor.
Terms Used In Idaho Code 42-3913
- Deep injection well: means an injection well which is more than eighteen (18) feet in vertical depth below land surface. See Idaho Code 42-3902
- Injection: means the subsurface emplacement of fluids through an injection well, but excludes the following:
Idaho Code 42-3902Injection well: means any feature that is operated to allow injection which also meets at least one (1) of the following criteria:
Idaho Code 42-3902Licensed driller: means any person holding a valid license to drill water wells in Idaho as provided and defined in section 42-238, Idaho Code. See Idaho Code 42-3902 Operator: means any individual, group of individuals, partnership, company, corporation, municipality, county, state agency, taxing district or federal agency who operates or proposes to operate any injection well. See Idaho Code 42-3902 person: includes a corporation as well as a natural person;
Idaho Code 73-114Shallow injection well: means an injection well which is less than or equal to eighteen (18) feet in vertical depth below land surface. See Idaho Code 42-3902 State: when applied to the different parts of the United States, includes the District of Columbia and the territories; and the words "United States" may include the District of Columbia and territories. See Idaho Code 73-114