Vermont Statutes Title 10 Sec. 1417
Terms Used In Vermont Statutes Title 10 Sec. 1417
- Agency: means the Agency of Natural Resources. See
- Domestic: when applied to a corporation, company, association, or copartnership shall mean organized under the laws of this State; "foreign" when so applied, shall mean organized under the laws of another state, government, or country. See
- Farming: means farming as the term is defined in subdivision 6001(22) of this title. See
- following: when used by way of reference to a section of the law shall mean the next preceding or following section. See
- Groundwater: means water below the land surface, including springs. See
- Month: shall mean a calendar month and "year" shall mean a calendar year and be equivalent to the expression "year of our Lord. See
- Person: means any individual, partnership, company, corporation, cooperative, association, unincorporated association, joint venture, trust, the State of Vermont, or any department, agency, subdivision, or municipality, the U. See
- Secretary: means the Secretary of Natural Resources or the Secretary's designated representative. See
- Spring: means a groundwater source where groundwater flows naturally to the surface of the earth and is collected with a developed structure that is designed to locate or extract groundwater. See
- Surface water: means waters within the meaning of subdivision 1251(13) of this title. See
- Well: means any hole drilled, driven, bored, excavated, or created by similar method into the earth to locate, monitor, extract, or recharge groundwater where the water table or potentiometric surface is artificially lowered through pumping. See
- withdrawal: means the intentional removal by any method or instrument of groundwater from a well, spring, or combination of wells or springs. See
§ 1417. Existing groundwater withdrawal; reporting
(a) Beginning September 1, 2009, any person that withdraws more than 20,000 gallons per day, averaged over a calendar month at a single tract of land or place of business shall file a groundwater report with the Secretary of Natural Resources on or before September 1 for the preceding calendar year. The report shall be made on a form prescribed by the Secretary and shall include:
(1) the location, capacity, frequency, and rate of the withdrawal;
(2) a description of the use of the water withdrawn; and
(3) where feasible, the distance of each withdrawal from the nearest surface water source and wetland.
(b) The following are exempt from the reporting requirements of this section:
(1) a groundwater withdrawal for fire suppression or other public emergency purposes;
(2) a withdrawal reported to the Agency of Natural Resources under any program that requires the reporting of substantially similar data. The Agency of Natural Resources shall record such withdrawals with the information from withdrawals reported under this section;
(3) domestic, residential use;
(4) groundwater withdrawal for farming;
(5) dairy processors and milk handlers licensed in accordance with 6 V.S.A. § 2721;
(6) public water systems, as that term is defined in section 1671 of this title; and
(7) closed loop, standing column, or similar non-extractive geothermal heat pumps.
(c) The Secretary of Natural Resources may adopt rules to implement this section, including methods for calculating or estimating the amount of groundwater withdrawn from a well or spring. (Added 2007, No. 199 (Adj. Sess.), § 2, eff. June 9, 2008.)