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Well Driller Program And SearchWell MAHB Certification Program Marlboro Holiday Inn, Marlboro, MA November 2, 2013 By Steve Hallem Well Driller Program MassDEP – Bureau of Resource Protection, Drinking Water Program. Well Driller Certification Program. MassDEP. Program Consists of :
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Well Driller Program And SearchWell MAHB Certification Program Marlboro Holiday Inn, Marlboro, MA November 2, 2013 By Steve Hallem Well Driller Program MassDEP – Bureau of Resource Protection, Drinking Water Program
Well Driller Certification Program MassDEP Program Consists of : • Certification of Well Drillers/Registration of Drill Rigs • Approximately 360 Well Drillers • Approximately 450 rigs • Updating of the Well Completion Report Database w/Data From Recently Drilled Wells • Respond to Requests for Well Completion Data • From BOH/Home Owners/Buyers/Realtors • Other Drillers • Engineers/Consultant • Office of the State Geologist • Processing of Backlogged Well Completion Reports • Well Completion Cards submitted to DCR to be entered into database (90,000 Now 20,000)
Well Driller Certification Program MassDEP • Well Drillers Must: • Be certified in Massachusetts to drill a well • Must use a drill rig with a current MA sticker • Must submit a Well Completion Report (WCR) within 30 days of completing a well • Must submit a WCR for any well (private potable, irrigation, geothermal, or monitoring well) left in the ground for 48 hours or longer
Well Driller Certification Program MassDEP Compliance and Enforcement • Under old DCR Regulations (313 CMR 3.00) • $300/Violation • Under MassDEP Regulations • Currently in effect with 310 CMR 46.00 • Subject to MassDEP C & E Schedule • Could be Up to $10,000
Well Driller Program Can assist you… MassDEP • Be a resource for types of wells and general drilling practices • Provide a list of certified drillers • Provide the SeachWell database tool for wells in your town • If you don’t see it in SearchWell, give us a call and we will look through the paper files
Well Driller Certification Program MassDEP Database • Well Drillers are submitting about 90% of WCR on-line. Data goes into SearchWell within 15 minutes. • Some drillers still submit paper forms which staff enter. • Old forms from DCR are being entered by staff.
Well Driller Certification Program MassDEP • Database Currently contains 130,000 wells • 30,000 Well Completion Reports Backlogged • Going Back to 1970s • Poor Locational Information
Well Driller Program SearchWell MassDEP What is it: • Its primary function is for users to view our well data • It can be viewed • Saved in an Excel spreadsheet • Printed as a simple well report • You can view well locations on a map, if the well has location data (lat/lon).
Well Driller Certification Program MassDEP Geologic Mapping Layers* • Surficial Geology – in progress by USGS • Bedrock Geology – Zen unless mapped by Office of State Geologist * Data provided in part by Well Driller Program
Well Driller Program MassDEP • Well locations: • Very accurate if location collected by the driller using GPS • Some what accurate if lot number is known • Less accurate if location is from an “address match”. • All are good for general positions but not accurate enough for set back determinations.
Well Driller Certification Program MassDEP Can use your help… • Let us know if a driller is trying to take out a well permit and is not certified. • Only allow certified drillers to obtain a well permit. • Keep copies of the well permits on hand and match it with a copy of the WCR (which the drill should mail to you). Let us know if you have a well permit without a WCR to go with it. • Let us know of any problems with wells someone drills.
Well Driller Registration Program MassDEP Contact information: • Steve Hallem – 617.292.5681 • steve.hallem@state.ma.us • Paul Blain – 617.292.5948 • paul.blain@state.ma.us