Kansas Administrative Regulations
Agency 5 - DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE-DIVISION OF WATER RESOURCES
Article 25 - BIG BEND GROUNDWATER MANAGEMENT DISTRICT NO. 5
Section 5-25-2 - Well spacing
Universal Citation: KS Admin Regs 5-25-2
Current through Register Vol. 43, No. 12, March 20, 2024
(a) With the exception of those wells described in subsection (b), the minimum spacing of all wells described in an application to appropriate water for beneficial use, other than those wells for domestic use, shall be 1,320 feet from the following:
(1) All other non-domestic
wells and proposed non-domestic wells that carry an earlier priority;
and
(2) baseflow nodes.
Non-domestic wells shall be 660 feet from all existing domestic wells, except those domestic wells owned by the applicant.
(b)
(1) Each replacement well drilled within 300
feet of the originally authorized point of diversion shall be exempt from the
well spacing requirement of subsection (a).
(2) Each non-domestic well that proposes the
withdrawal of groundwater from the Dakota aquifer or any bedrock aquifer shall
be one mile from all other wells withdrawing groundwater from the same
formation, including domestic wells, except those domestic wells owned by the
applicant.
(3) Each new well that
enables the establishment of augmentation in the Rattlesnake creek subbasin
pursuant to
K.S.A.
82a-706b, and amendments thereto, in relation
to other wells that enable or provide augmentation shall be exempt from the
well spacing requirement of subsection (a).
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