Oregon Administrative Rules › Chapter 690 - WATER RESOURCES DEPARTMENT › Division 240 - CONSTRUCTION, MAINTENANCE, ALTERATION, CONVERSION AND ABANDONMENT OF MONITORING WELLS, GEOTECHNICAL HOLES AND OTHER HOLES IN OREGON › Section 690-240-0375 - Monitoring Well Construction Notice Required (Start Card)

Current through Register Vol. 63, No. 7, July 1, 2024
(1)
			 Each bonded Monitoring Well Constructor licensed to operate in the State of
			 Oregon and each landowner holding a landowner's permit shall provide a start
			 card as required in ORS
			 537.762 before commencing the
			 construction, alteration, or abandonment of any monitoring well or conversion
			 of any other hole, geotechnical hole, or water supply well to a monitoring
			 well. The start card shall contain the following information:
(a) Name, telephone number, electronic mail
			 address and post-office address of the owner of the well;
(b) Street address of the well. If property
			 does not have an address, then the street address nearest to the proposed
			 well;
(c) The approximate location
			 of the monitoring well by county tax lot number, township, range, section and
			 nearest quarter-quarter section;
(d) The latitude and longitude of the well as
			 established by a global positioning system;
(e) The proposed depth and diameter of the
			 well;
(f) The proposed purpose or
			 use of the groundwater from the proposed well if the well is new, altered, or
			 converted;
(g) The time frame
			 proposed for beginning and completing the construction, alteration, abandonment
			 or conversion;
(h) The time frame
			 proposed for annular seal placement. If the actual date of seal placement is
			 not the date proposed on the start card, the licensed or permitted person shall
			 notify the department of the change at least four (4) hours before placing the
			 seal. Notification shall be submitted:
(A)
			 Electronically by department approved methods; or
(B) By mail, or hand delivery, to the region
			 office where the well to be drilled, altered, converted, or abandoned is
			 located. If this method is used, then the notification must be on a department
			 approved notification form and received by the region office at least four (4)
			 hours prior to placing the seal; or
(C) By electronic mail. If notification is
			 sent by electronic mail, then the electronic mail shall include a completed
			 copy of a department approved notification form. If department approved
			 notification form is not attached to the electronic mail, then original
			 notification form must be submitted to the Department within three (3) working
			 days of the date of electronic mail notification.
(i) The well identification label number, if
			 assigned;
(j) The water right
			 application, permit or certificate number, if applicable;
(k) The original well log number, if
			 applicable;
(l) The type of work
			 proposed;
(m) Notification of any
			 need for special standards;
(n) The
			 signature and license number, if applicable, of the bonded and licensed or
			 permitted person who would undertake the work;
(o) For an existing well, the current purpose
			 or use of the well and the existing depth and diameter of the well.