Current through Register Vol. 48, No. 9, September 27, 2024
1. To protect against or abate unreasonable
adverse or potential unreasonable adverse effects on other water users within a
designated capacity use area, including but not limited to adverse effects on
public use, the Department shall consider the best available information on the
geologic and hydrologic characteristics of the aquifer or aquifers and the
groundwater withdrawals of the area, and shall require groundwater users to
take such action as the Department deems necessary and appropriate for its
control.
2. Types of control
measures which the Department may require applicants, permit holders, and
groundwater withdrawers to take may include, but not be limited to, the
following:
a. Requirement of selective
withdrawal from other available freshwater aquifers than those currently
used;
b. Pumping arrangements to
reduce groundwater withdrawal in areas of concentrated pumping;
c. Selective curtailment or reduction of
groundwater withdrawals where it is found to be in the public interest or
general welfare or to protect the water resource;
d. Conjunctive use of aquifers, or waters of
less desirable quality where water quality of a specific character is not
essential;
e. Construction and use
of observation or monitor wells;
f.
Abandonment of wells, in accordance with Section N, that have penetrated zones
of undesirable water quality where such wells are determined by the Department
to be causing contamination of freshwater aquifers;
g. Prohibiting the hydraulic connection of
aquifers that could result in deterioration of water quality in a freshwater
aquifer(s);
h. Abandonment of
wells, not covered under Section L.2.f., in accordance with Section N
below;
i. Require the applicants,
permit holders, and groundwater withdrawers to cooperate with the Department
and other groundwater users in the affected area, in determining and
implementing reasonable and practical methods to conserve and protect the water
resources and to avoid or minimize adverse effects of the quantity and quality
of water available to persons whose water supply has been materially reduced or
impaired as a result of groundwater withdrawals; and
j. Such other necessary and appropriate
control or abatement techniques as are technically feasible and have proven to
be successful in other areas.
