Virginia Administrative Code › Title 4 - CONSERVATION AND NATURAL RESOURCES › Agency 25 - DEPARTMENT OF ENERGY › Chapter 150 - VIRGINIA GAS AND OIL REGULATION › Part I - Standards of General Applicability › Article 2 - Permitting › Section 4VAC25-150-90 - Plats

Current through Register Vol. 40, No. 24, July 15, 2024
A. When filing an
					 application for a permit for a well or corehole, the applicant also shall file
					 an accurate plat certified by a licensed professional engineer or licensed land
					 surveyor on a scale, to be stated thereon, of 1 inch equals 400 feet (1:4800).
					 The scope of the plat shall be large enough to show the board approved unit and
					 all areas within the greater of 750 feet or one half of the distance specified
					 in § 45.2-1616 of the Code of Virginia from the proposed well or corehole.
					 The plat shall be submitted on a form prescribed by the director.
B. The known courses and distances of all
					 property lines and lines connecting the permanent points, landmarks or corners
					 within the scope of the plat shall be shown thereon. All lines actually
					 surveyed shall be shown as solid lines. Lines taken from deed or chain of title
					 descriptions only shall be shown by broken lines. All property lines shown on a
					 plat shall agree with any one of the following: surveys, deed descriptions, or
					 acreages used in county records for tax assessment purposes.
C. A north and south line shall be given and
					 shown on the plat, and point to the top of the plat.
D. Wells or coreholes shall be located on the
					 plat as follows:
1. The proposed or actual
					 surface elevation of the subject well or corehole shall be shown on the plat,
					 within an accuracy of one vertical foot. The surface elevation shall be tied to
					 either a government benchmark or other point of proven elevation by
					 differential or aerial survey, by trigonometric leveling, or by global
					 positioning system (GPS) survey. The location of the government benchmark or
					 the point of proven elevation and the method used to determine the surface
					 elevation of the subject well or corehole shall be noted and described on the
					 plat.
2. The proposed or actual
					 horizontal location of the subject well or corehole determined by survey shall
					 be shown on the plat. The proposed or actual well or corehole location shall be
					 shown in accordance with the Virginia Coordinate System of 1983, as defined in
					 § 1-600 of the Code of Virginia, also known as the State Plane Coordinate
					 System.
3. The courses and
					 distances of the well or corehole location from two permanent points or
					 landmarks on the tract shall be shown; such landmarks shall be set stones, iron
					 pipes, T-rails or other manufactured monuments, including mine coordinate
					 monuments, and operating or abandoned wells which are platted to the accuracy
					 standards of this section and on file with the division. If temporary points
					 are to be used to locate the actual well or corehole location as provided for
					 in
					 4VAC25-150-290,
					 the courses and distances of the well or corehole location from the two
					 temporary points shall be shown.
4.
					 Any other well, permitted or drilled, within the distance specified in §
					 45.2-1616 of the Code of Virginia or the distance to the nearest well completed
					 in the same pool, whichever is less, or within the boundaries of a drilling
					 unit established by the board around the subject well shall be shown on the
					 plat or located by notation. The type of each well shall be designated by the
					 following symbols as described in the Federal Geographic Data Committee (FGDC)
					 Digital Cartographic Standard for Geologic Map Symbolization:
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Symbols for additional features as required in
						4VAC25-150-510,
						4VAC25-150-590,
						and
						4VAC25-150-680
						should be taken from the FDGC standard where
						applicable.