New Jersey Administrative Code
Title 7 - ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION
Chapter 9D - WELL CONSTRUCTION AND MAINTENANCE; SEALING OF ABANDONED WELLS
Subchapter 1 - GENERAL REQUIREMENTS FOR PERMITTING OF WELLS, AND FOR LICENSING OF WELL DRILLERS AND PUMP INSTALLERS, PROCEDURES AND PRACTICES OF THE STATE WELL DRILLERS AND PUMP INSTALLERS EXAMINING AND ADVISORY BOARD
Section 7:9D-1.15 - Well record and well decommissioning reporting requirements

1. Within 90 days of completion of the drilling, constructing, installing, repairing, replacing, redesignating, or modifying any well requiring a permit to drill, the licensed well driller who performed the work or provided the onsite supervision shall submit a completed well record via the Department's electronic permitting system. For well records that cannot be accurately submitted via the Department's electronic permitting system or where applicants have no access to a computer, the Department may allow submission of a well record on a paper form prescribed by the Department. In addition to the information listed in (a)3 below, a completed paper well record requires the signature of the well driller submitting the paper well record.

2. Where a well is equipped with a pump having a capacity of 70 gpm or more and the equipment is installed after the well record has been submitted, the well record shall be amended by the well driller or pump installer and resubmitted to the Department through the electronic permitting system within 90 days of installation of the pumping equipment. If the pump is installed by a pump installer or a well driller from a drilling company other than the one listed on the original well permit, the following information shall be submitted via e-mail pursuant to N.J.A.C. 7:9D-1.17: pump type, capacity, depth setting, horsepower, date of pump installation, well permit number, and name and license number of the person who installed the pump;

3. Well records shall be accurate, complete, and include, at a minimum, the following: the geologic log as defined in this chapter, the location of the well, the date of well construction and date well completed, the size and depth of the well, the diameter of the borehole and well casing installed, and the length of well casing, the length of any well screen or open hole interval, a description of all equipment, type and amount of grout, and materials used to construct the well, the static water level and yield of the well, information on any permanent well pumping equipment installed by the well driller or pump installer, name and registration number of the well driller who constructed the well, and other such information pertaining to the construction of the well; and

4. The as-built location of the well shall be reported in all well records as follows:

1. Within 90 days of completion of the decommissioning of a well, the well driller who decommissioned the well or who provided the onsite supervision of the well decommissioning shall submit a completed well decommissioning report and any relevant attachments, via the Department's electronic permitting system. For well decommissioning reports that cannot be accurately submitted via the Department's electronic permitting system or where applicants have no access to a computer, the Department may allow submission of a well decommissioning report on a paper form prescribed by the Department. In addition to the information listed in (c)2 below, a completed paper well decommissioning report requires the signature of the well driller submitting the paper well decommissioning report.

2. A well decommissioning report shall include:

3. Where a site-wide permit is issued, and only a portion of the wells drilled under that permit are decommissioned, one well decommissioning report representing the deepest well that was decommissioned shall be submitted and a table listing the site specific local identification name or number and depths of all the decommissioned wells must be attached.