Idaho Administrative Code › Title IDAPA 37 - Water Resources, Department of › Rule 37.03.03 - RULES AND MINIMUM STANDARDS FOR THE CONSTRUCTION AND USE OF INJECTION WELLS › Section 37.03.03.010 - DEFINITIONS

Current through August 31, 2023
01.
Abandonment
. See "permanent
			 decommission. (3-18-22)
02.
Abandoned Well
. See "permanent decommission". (3-18-22)
03.
Agricultural Runoff Waste
.
			 Excess surface water from agricultural fields generated during any agricultural
			 operation, including runoff of irrigation tail water, as well as natural
			 drainage resulting from precipitation, snowmelt, and floodwaters, and is
			 identical to the statutory phrase "irrigation waste water" found in Idaho Code
			 42-3902. (3-18-22)
04.
Applicant
. Any owner or operator submitting an application for permit to
			 construct, modify or maintain an injection well to the Director of the
			 Department of Water Resources. (3-18-22)
05.
Application
. The standard
			 Department forms for applying for a permit, including any additions, revisions
			 or modifications to the forms. (3-18-22)
06.
Aquifer
. Any formation that
			 will yield water to a well in sufficient quantities to make production of water
			 from the formation reasonable for a beneficial use, except when the water in
			 such formation results solely from fluids deposited through an injection well.
			 (3-18-22)
07.
Beneficial
			 Use
. One (1) or more of the recognized beneficial uses of water
			 including but not limited to, domestic, municipal, irrigation, hydropower
			 generation, industrial, commercial, recreation, aquifer recharge and storage,
			 stockwatering and fish propagation uses, as well as other uses which provide a
			 benefit to the user of the water as determined by the Director. Industrial use
			 as used for purposes of these rules includes, but is not limited to,
			 manufacturing, mining and processing uses of water. (3-18-22)
08.
Best Management Practice
			 (BMP)
. A practice or combination of practices that are more effective
			 than other techniques at preventing or reducing contamination of ground water
			 and surface water by injection well operation. (3-18-22)
09.
Casing
. A pipe or tubing of
			 appropriate material, of varying diameter and weight, lowered into a borehole
			 during or after drilling in order to support the sides of the hole and thus
			 prevent the walls from caving, to prevent loss of drilling fluid into porous
			 ground, or to prevent water, gas, or other fluid from entering or leaving the
			 hole. (3-18-22)
10.
Cementing
. The operation whereby a cement slurry is pumped into a
			 drilled hole and/or forced behind the casing. (3-18-22)
11.
Cesspool
. An injection well
			 that receives sanitary waste without benefit of a treatment system or treatment
			 device such as a septic tank. Cesspools sometimes have open bottom and/or
			 perforated sides. (3-18-22)
12.
Coliform Bacteria
. All of the aerobic and facultative anaerobic,
			 gram-negative, non-spore forming, rod-shaped bacteria that either ferment
			 lactose broth with gas formation within forty-eight (48) hours at thirty-five
			 degrees Celsius (35C), or produce a dark colony with a metallic sheen within
			 twenty-four (24) hours on an Endo-type medium containing lactose.
			 (3-18-22)
13.
Confining
			 Bed
. A body of impermeable or distinctly less permeable material
			 stratigraphically adjacent to one (1) or more aquifers. (3-18-22)
14.
Construct
. To create a new
			 injection well or to convert any structure into an injection well.
			 (3-18-22)
15.
Contaminant
. Any physical, chemical, biological, or radiological
			 substance or matter. (3-18-22)
16.
Contamination
. The introduction into the natural ground water of
			 any physical, chemical, biological, or radioactive material that may: (3-18-22)
a. Cause a violation of Idaho Ground Water
			 Quality Standards found in IDAPA 58.01.11 "Ground Water Quality Rule" or the
			 federal drinking water quality standards, whichever is more stringent; or
			 (3-18-22)
b. Adversely affect the
			 health of the public; or (3-18-22)
c. Adversely affect a designated or
			 beneficial use of the State's ground water. Contamination includes the
			 introduction of heated or cooled water into the subsurface that will alter the
			 ground water temperature and render the local ground water less suitable for
			 beneficial use. (3-18-22)