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Well Driller Certification Program By Paul Blain Senior Hydrogeologist

Well Driller Certification Program By Paul Blain Senior Hydrogeologist MassDEP – Bureau of Resource Protection. Well Driller Certification Program. MassDEP. Program Functions: Certification of Well Drillers/Registration of Drill Rigs

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Well Driller Certification Program By Paul Blain Senior Hydrogeologist

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  1. Well Driller Certification Program By Paul Blain Senior Hydrogeologist MassDEP – Bureau of Resource Protection

  2. Well Driller Certification Program MassDEP • Program Functions: • Certification of Well Drillers/Registration of Drill Rigs • Updating of the Well Completion Report Database w/Data From Recently Drilled Wells • Respond to Requests for Well Completion Data • Processing of Backlogged Well Completion Reports

  3. WellDriller Certification Program MassDEP Program was transferred from DCR to MassDEP Legislation in Governors SFY 2010 Budget Effective October 1, 2009

  4. Well Driller Certification Program MassDEP • GSHP Wells must be drilled by a Massachusetts Certified Well Driller • Properly Completed Well Completion Reports must be Submitted

  5. Well Driller Certification Program MassDEP Certified Well Driller Information: http://www.mass.gov/dep/water/ drinking/drillers.xls

  6. Well Driller Certification Program MassDEP • MassDEP OGC – Amending Regulations • Promulgation Date – April 2010 • Well Driller Certificates/Rig Permits issued by DCR for SFY 2010

  7. Well Driller Certification Program MassDEP Compliance and Enforcement • Under Existing Regulations (313 CMR 3.00) • $300/Violation • Under MassDEP Regulations • Effective upon promulgation of 310 CMR 46.00 • Subject to MassDEP C & E Schedule

  8. Well Driller Certification Program MassDEP Database Transition Phase I - Certification of Well Drillers and Rig Permits Phase II – Electronic Filing of Well Completion Reports Phase III – SearchWell

  9. Well Driller Certification Program MassDEP Phase I • Development of an internal applications to manage the certification of well drillers and registration of drilling rigs • Completion Date - November 2009

  10. Well Driller Certification Program MassDEP Phase II • Develop a public facing application that will allow well drillers to submit Well Completion Reports electronically to MassDEP • Completion date – April 2010

  11. Well Driller Certification Program MassDEP Phase III • .NET public facing application that will reside on the MassDEP Website that will allow the searching of the well information database • Scheduled Release Date – April 2010

  12. Well Driller Certification Program MassDEP Phase III • Database Currently contains 80,000 wells • 90,000 Well Completion Reports Backlogged • Going Back to 1970s • Poor Locational Information • Quality Control Issues

  13. Well Driller Certification Program MassDEP Geologic Mapping Layers • Surficial Geology – in progress by OMSG/USGS • Bedrock Geology – Zen unless mapped by OMSG

  14. Well Driller Certification Program MassDEP Contact information: Steve Hallem – 617.292.5681 steve.hallem@state.ma.us Paul Blain – 617.292.5948 paul.blain@state.ma.us

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