2019 Connecticut General Statutes
Title 25 - Water Resources. Flood and Erosion Control
Chapter 482 - Well Drilling
Section 25-131 - Well records. Drilling, excavating and pumping activities affecting underground water resources.

(a) Within sixty days, or other period established by the board, after the completion of a water-supply well, a well drilling contractor shall provide the owner, the board and the Department of Energy and Environmental Protection with a copy of a record indicating the well owner's name and address, location of the well, well depth, geologic materials and thickness of materials penetrated, amount of casing, static water levels and any other information which may be required by the regulations adopted under this chapter. Standard forms for the record shall be provided by the board. A record for a drive point well where no earth materials are removed from the well bore shall be sufficient if the owner's name, well location, depth, casing, static water level and screen data are indicated. Such records shall bear the signed statement of the local director of health that he has approved such well.

(b) Drilling, excavating and pumping associated with the oil, gas or brine well industries and the construction, quarrying and mining industries and the disposal of any materials shall be subject to this chapter only insofar as they relate to the pollution and depletion of underground water resources.

(c) Within sixty days, or other period established by the board, after completion of a non-water-supply well, a well drilling contractor shall provide the owner, the board, the Commissioner of Energy and Environmental Protection and the local director of health or his agent with a copy of a record indicating the well owner's name and address, well depth, geologic materials and thickness of materials penetrated, amount and type of casing, static water levels, a site map indicating the location of the well and any other information which may be required by the regulations adopted under section 25-128.

(d) The abandonment of non-water-supply wells shall be conducted in accordance with the regulations adopted under section 25-128 regarding abandonment of wells.

(1969, P.A. 659, S. 6; 1971, P.A. 872, S. 141; P.A. 96-17, S. 5; P.A. 11-80, S. 1.)

History: 1971 act replaced water resources commission with department of environmental protection in Subsec. (a); P.A. 96-17 amended Subsec. (a) to apply previously existing provisions to water-supply wells and added new Subsecs. (c) and (d) re records for non-water-supply wells and abandonment of non-water-supply wells, respectively; pursuant to P.A. 11-80, “Commissioner of Environmental Protection” and “Department of Environmental Protection” were changed editorially by the Revisors to “Commissioner of Energy and Environmental Protection” and “Department of Energy and Environmental Protection”, respectively, effective July 1, 2011.