2014 Virginia Code
Title 45.1 - Mines and Mining
§ 45.1-361.44. Replacement of water supply


VA Code § 45.1-361.44 (2014) What's This?

If any water supply of a surface owner who obtains all or part of his supply of water for domestic use from a water well has been materially affected by contamination or partial or complete interruption proximately resulting from a gas well operation within 750 feet of the water well, the operator of such gas well shall promptly provide a replacement water supply which shall be capable of meeting the uses such water supply met prior to the contamination or partial or complete interruption.

1998, c. 227; 2009, c. 293.

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