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2011 West Virginia Code
CHAPTER 22. ENVIRONMENTAL RESOURCES
ARTICLE 6. OFFICE OF OIL AND GAS; OIL AND GAS WELLS; ADMINISTRATION; ENFORCEMENT.
§22-6-35. Civil action for contamination or deprivation of fresh water source or supply; presumption.
WV Code § 22-6-35 (2002 through Reg Sess) What's This?
In any action for contamination or deprivation of a fresh water source or supply within one thousand feet of the site of drilling for an oil or gas well, there shall be a rebuttable presumption that such drilling, and such oil or gas well, or either, was the proximate cause of the contamination or deprivation of such fresh water source or supply.
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