North Carolina Administrative Code
Title 15A - Environmental Quality
Chapter 02 - ENVIRONMENTAL MANAGEMENT
Subchapter C - WELL CONSTRUCTION STANDARDS
Section .0200 - CRITERIA AND STANDARDS APPLICABLE TO INJECTION WELLS
Section 02C .0201 - PURPOSE

Universal Citation: 15A NC Admin Code 02C .0201
Current through Register Vol. 39, No. 6, September 16, 2024

The rules in this Section establish classes of injection wells and set forth requirements and procedures for permitting, constructing, operating, monitoring, reporting, and abandoning approved types of injection wells. They also establish standards for abandoning, monitoring, and reporting non-permitted wells used for the injection of wastes or any substance of a composition and concentration such that, if it were discharged to the land or waters of the State, would adversely affect human health or would otherwise render those waters unsuitable for their best intended usage. Except as provided for in G.S. 143-215.1A, the discharge of any wastes to the subsurface by means of wells is prohibited by G.S. 143-214.2(b).

Authority G.S. 87-84; 87-87; 87-88; 143-211; 143-215.1A;
143-215.3(a)(1); 143-215.3(c);
Eff. August 1, 1982;
Amended Eff. May 1, 2012; September 1, 1996;
Readopted Eff. September 1, 2019.

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