Kan. Admin. Regs. § 5-24-7

Current through Register Vol. 44, No. 2, January 9, 2025

Section 5-24-7 - Well construction criteria

(a) Each nondomestic well that is not subject to regulation under the Kansas chemigation safety law, K.S.A. 2-3301 et seq., and amendments thereto, and that is completed after May 1, 1983 shall include the installation of a check valve that meets or exceeds specifications adopted by the chief engineer which were in effect at the time the well was completed.

(b) All wells, including domestic wells, to be completed in a cretaceous aquifer shall be constructed in a manner that prevents the cretaceous aquifer from mixing with all quaternary, tertiary, and any other cretaceous water-bearing strata that have no natural hydraulic connection between the formation or formations in which the well will be screened.

Authorized by and implementing K.S.A. 82a-1028; effective May 1, 1983; amended Jan. 10, 2003.