West Virginia Code of State Rules › Agency 64 - Health › Title 64 - LEGISLATIVE RULE WEST VIRGINIA DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH AND HUMAN RESOURCES › Series 64-19 - Water Well Regulations › Section 64-19-3 - Definitions

Current through Register Vol. XLI, No. 28, July 12, 2024
3.1. Application.
				-- The Bureau's standard forms for applying for well driller and pump installer
				certification, water well permit or permit modification, including any
				additions, revisions, or modifications to the form.
3.2. Apprentice. -- A person working under
				the direction of a master or journeyman well driller or a pump
				installer.
3.3. Bureau. -- The
				Bureau for Public Health in the West Virginia Department of Health and Human
				Resources.
3.4. Casing. -- Pipe or
				tubing, constructed of specific materials with specified dimensions and
				weights, that is installed in a borehole during or after completion of the
				borehole to support the side of the hole and thereby prevent caving, to allow
				completion of the well, to prevent formation material from entering the well
				and to prevent entry of undesirable water into the well.
3.5. Certified Well Driller. -- An individual
				granted a written certificate by the Commissioner to drill, construct, alter or
				abandon water wells who meets the requirements of this rule.
3.6. Commercial Well -- A well that serves
				small businesses and facilities in which water is the prime ingredient of the
				service rendered.
3.7.
				Commissioner. -- The Commissioner of the West Virginia Bureau for Public Health
				or his or her designee.
3.8.
				Continuing Education Hour. -- One hour of participation in an organized
				continuing education experience under the direction of a sponsor approved by
				the Commissioner for renewal of a certification. One Continuing Education Hour
				is equal to one point.
3.9. Design
				Standards. -- Those specifications, drawings, and other details promulgated by
				the Commissioner to ensure proper location, design, construction, completion
				and abandonment of water wells and installation or removal of water pumps as
				referenced in the Bureau's rules, Water Well Design Standards, 64CSR46, and
				Public Water System Design Standards, 64CSR77.
3.10. Dewatering Well. -- A well used to
				lower groundwater levels to allow for construction of footings, sewer lines,
				building foundations, dams, etc.
3.11. Hand Dug Well. -- A manually excavated
				well of a permanent nature installed for water supply.
3.12. Heat Pump or Geothermal Well. -- Any
				well constructed to use the heat exchange properties of either groundwater or
				of geologic material penetrated by the well.
3.13. Inactive Well. -- A well that is no
				longer actively used. It shall have a sanitary well cap and remain in a state
				of repair to prevent contamination from entering the well. It may be used in
				the future or be properly abandoned.
3.14. Industrial Well. -- A well used in
				industrial processing, fire protection, washing, packing, or manufacturing of a
				product excluding food and beverages, or similar non-potable uses.
3.15. Irrigation Well. -- A well used to
				provide water for plants, livestock, or other agricultural processes.
3.16. Journeyman Well Driller. -- A person
				certified by the Commissioner to practice well drilling under the general
				supervision of a master well driller.
3.17. Master Well Driller. -- A person
				certified by the Commissioner to practice well drilling including pump and
				pumping equipment installation, and removal, when maintenance or repair of a
				well is required.
3.18. Person. --
				An individual, partnership, association, syndicate, company, firm, trust,
				corporation, government corporation, institution, department, division, bureau,
				agency, federal agency or any other entity recognized by law.
3.19. Potable Water. -- Water free from
				impurities in amounts sufficient to cause disease or harmful physiological
				effects, with bacteriological, chemical, physical and radiological quality
				conforming to applicable rules and standards of the Bureau for Public
				Health.
3.20. Potable Water Well.
				-- Any water well that provides potable water, other than a public water supply
				for human consumption.
3.21. Public
				Water System. -- Any water supply or system that regularly supplies or offers
				to supply water for human consumption through pipes or other constructed
				conveyances, if serving at least an average of twenty-five individuals per day
				for at least sixty days per year, or which has at least fifteen service
				connections, and includes:
3.21.a. Any
				collection, treatment, storage, and distribution facilities under the control
				of the owner or operator of the system and used primarily in connection with
				the system; and
3.21.b. Any
				collection or pretreatment storage facilities not under such control which are
				used primarily in connection with the system.
3.21.c. A public water system does not
				include a system which meets all of the following conditions:
3.21.c.1. It consists only of distribution
				and storage facilities and does not have any collection and treatment
				facilities;
3.21.c.2. It obtains
				all of its water from, but is not owned or operated by a public water system
				that otherwise meets the definition;
3.21.c.3. It does not sell water to any
				person; and
3.21.c.4. It is not a
				carrier conveying passengers in interstate commerce.