New York Codes, Rules and Regulations › Title 10 - DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH › Chapter I - State Sanitary Code › Part 5 - Drinking Water Supplies › Subpart 5-2 - Water Well Construction › Section 5-2.3 - Definitions

Current through Register Vol. 46, No. 28, July 10, 2024
As used in this Subpart:
(a) Abandoned well means a well whose use has
				  been permanently discontinued. A well shall be deemed abandoned if it is in
				  such a state of disrepair that continued use for the purpose of obtaining a
				  satisfactory ground water supply is impracticable.
(b) Applicant means the owner, lessee or
				  other person having the possession and control of property on which a well is
				  to be constructed or abandoned.
(c)
				  Construction of water wells means all acts necessary to obtain ground water by
				  wells, including the location and excavation of the well.
(d) Permit-issuing official means the health
				  commissioner or health officer of a city of 50,000 population or over, the
				  health commissioner or health officer of a county or part-county health
				  district, the State regional health director or area director having
				  jurisdiction, a grade I or grade II public health administrator qualified and
				  appointed pursuant to Part 11 of this Title, or any county health director
				  having all the powers and duties prescribed in section 352  of the Public Health Law. The health
				  commissioner or health officer of a city of 50,000 population or over, or the
				  health commissioner or health officer of a county or part-county health
				  district, or such grade I or grade II public health administrator or county
				  health director may designate the director of environmental health of such
				  district; and the State regional health director or area director may designate
				  the district sanitary engineer as additional persons authorized to issue the
				  permits required by this Part.
(e)
				  Installation of pumps and pumping equipment means the procedure employed in the
				  placement, protection and preparation for operation of pumps and pumping
				  equipment, including all construction involved in making entrance to the well
				  and establishing seals.
(f) Person
				  means any individual, public or private corporation, political subdivision,
				  government agency, municipality, industry, copartnership, association, firm,
				  trust, estate or any other legal entity.
(g) Pumps and pumping equipment means any
				  equipment or materials utilized or intended for use in withdrawing or obtaining
				  ground water for any use; including, without limitation, seals and tanks,
				  together with fittings and controls.
(h) Yield means the quantity of water per
				  unit of time which may flow or be pumped from a well at a stabilized drawdown
				  water level.
(i) Specific capacity
				  means the rate of yield of well per unit drawdown expressed either as gallons
				  per minute per foot or as liters per minute per meter.
(j) Water well contractor means any person,
				  firm, or corporation engaged in the business of constructing water
				  wells.
(k) Well means any
				  excavation that is drilled, cored, bored, washed, driven, dug, jetted, or
				  otherwise constructed when the intended use of such excavation is for the
				  location or acquisition of ground water, but such term does not include an
				  excavation made for the purpose of obtaining or for prospecting for oil,
				  natural gas, minerals, or products of mining or quarrying, or for inserting
				  media to repressure oil or natural gas-bearing formation or for storing
				  petroleum, natural gas or other products.[FN1]
[FN1] Counties wishing to do so may include within the
					 coverage of this definition de-watering, seismological, geophysical,
					 prospecting, observation or test wells.