Nevada Administrative Code
Chapter 445A - Water Controls
UNDERGROUND INJECTION CONTROL
General Provisions
Section 445A.849 - Class V wells

Universal Citation: NV Admin Code 445A.849

Current through September 16, 2024

A Class V well is any injection well not included in Classes I, II, III and IV, including, without limitation:

1. Wells used to inject the water for heating or cooling by a heat pump;

2. Cesspools or other devices receiving wastes which have an open bottom and sometimes have perforated sides;

3. Wells used to inject water previously used for cooling;

4. Wells used to drain surface fluid, primarily the runoff from storms, into a subsurface formation;

5. Wells used for the injection of fluids accumulated from dewatering operations;

6. Drywells and wells used for the injection of nonhazardous wastes into a subsurface formation;

7. Wells used to replenish the water in an aquifer;

8. Wells used to inject water into an aquifer of fresh water to prevent the intrusion of water of a lower quality into the fresh water;

9. Wells used to inject a mixture of water and sand, mill tailings or other solids into subsurface mines;

10. Wells used to inject domestic sewage for facilities other than single-family residences and having a volume capacity of more than 5,000 gallons per day which are regulated as on-site sewage disposal systems pursuant to NAC 445A.950 to 445A.9706, inclusive;

11. Wells used to inject fluids into a zone, other than an oil or gas producing zone, to reduce or eliminate subsidence associated with the overdraft of fresh water;

12. Wells used for the storage of hydrocarbons in a gaseous state at standard temperature and pressure;

13. Geothermal injection wells used in contact and noncontact heating and aquaculture, and in the production of energy;

14. Wells used for solution mining of ores or minerals in conventional mines, such as stopes leaching;

15. Wells used to inject spent brine into the same formation from which it was withdrawn after extraction of halogens or their salts;

16. Injection wells used in experimental technologies;

17. Injection wells that are approved under a federal or state cleanup program and used to reinject pumped and treated contaminated groundwater, other than hazardous waste, back into the same formation;

18. Injection wells used to inject fluids for the chemical or microbiological treatment of contaminated groundwater or soil; and

19. Motor vehicle waste disposal wells.

Added to NAC by Environmental Comm'n, eff. 7-22-87; A by R042-01, 10-25-2001; R103-04, 2-11-2005; R194-07, 8-26-2008; A by R101-16A, eff. 12/21/2016

NRS 445A.425

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