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353.120 Method of plugging well drilled through coal-bearing strata.
When any well drilled through a workable coal bed is abandoned, it shall at that time be
plugged to a point forty (40) feet below the lowest workable coal bed, in the following
manner: The hole shall be filled with mud, clay or other nonporous material from the
bottom to a point twenty (20) feet above the top of the lowest oil, gas or water-bearing
strata, or a permanent bridge shall be anchored thirty (30) feet below its lowest oil, gas or
water-bearing strata, and from this bridge it shall be filled with mud, clay or other
nonporous material to a point twenty (20) feet above the strata, at which point there shall
be placed a plug of cement or other suitable material that will completely seal the hole.
Between this sealing plug and a point twenty (20) feet above the next higher oil, gas or
water-bearing strata, the hole shall be treated in a like manner and at that point there shall
be placed another suitable plug, that will completely seal the hole. In a like manner the
hole shall be filled and plugged, or bridged, filled and plugged, with reference to each of
its oil, gas or water-bearing strata. Whenever such strata are not widely separated and are
free from water, they may be grouped and treated as a single productive stratum. After
plugging all strata, a final plug shall be anchored approximately ten (10) feet below the
bottom of the largest casing in the well and from that point to the surface the well shall be
filled with mud, clay or other nonporous material.
Effective: October 1, 1942
History: Recodified 1942 Ky. Acts ch. 208, sec. 1, effective October 1, 1942, from Ky.
Stat. sec. 3766b-13.
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