Oklahoma Administrative Code › Title 785 - Oklahoma Water Resources Board › Chapter 30 - Taking and Use of Groundwater › Subchapter 3 - Permit Application Requirements and Processing › Section 785:30-3-6 - Well spacing

Current through Vol. 41, No. 20, July 1, 2024
(a)
Spacing requirements .
(1) Within bedrock groundwater basins or subbasins where the maximum annual
										yield has been determined, no new or proposed well(s) shall be authorized by regular permit to be drilled and
										completed within one thousand three hundred twenty feet (1320') of an authorized existing well or proposed
										well location on lands of another, provided that the well on lands of another is capable of taking water from
										the same basin.
(2) Within alluvium and terrace groundwater
										basins or subbasins where the maximum annual yield has been determined, no new or proposed well(s) shall be
										authorized by regular permit to be drilled and completed within six hundred sixty feet (660') of an
										authorized existing well or proposed well location on lands of another, provided that the well on lands of
										another is capable of taking water from the same basin.
(3) For
										applications filed on or after October 1, 2019 within minor bedrock groundwater basins or subbasins, no new
										or proposed well(s) shall be authorized by temporary permit to be drilled and completed within one thousand
										three hundred twenty feet (1320') of an authorized existing well or proposed well location on lands of
										another, provided that the well on lands of another is capable of taking water from the same basin.
(4) For applications filed on or after October 1, 2019 within
										minor alluvium and terrace groundwater basins or subbasins, no new or proposed well(s) shall be authorized by
										temporary permit to be drilled and completed within six hundred sixty feet (660') of an authorized existing
										well or proposed well location on lands of another, provided that the well on lands of another is capable of
										taking water from the same basin.
(5) Spacing requirements for
										major bedrock basins or subbasins and for major alluvium and terrace basins or subbasins may be imposed on
										new or proposed wells requested to be authorized by applications for temporary permits filed on or after
										October 1, 2019, and after the Board has conducted at least one public hearing on the spacing setback
										provisions at a location within or in close proximity to the major basin or subbasin pursuant to Section
										1020.17 of Title 82 of the Oklahoma Statutes.
(6) These well spacing provisions shall not be applicable to
										plugged or abandoned wells, or wells authorized pursuant to a provisional temporary permit if no regular,
										temporary, special or limited quantity permit application requesting authorization to use the same wells is
										filed, provided further that the well spacing provisions shall not be applicable to proposed wells on lands
										of another if the proposed wells on lands of another are no longer authorized pursuant to
										785:30-5-5(a)(9).