N.H. Rev. Stat. Ann. § 482-B:10
Record of Wells; Monitoring Wells
Effective Jul 1, 20251989, 339:1. 1998, 89:15. 2007, 89:1, eff. Dec. 8, 2007. 2025, 141:113, eff. July 1, 2025.
I. Within 90 days after completion of a well, the water well contractor shall provide the board with a record of the well containing the following information:
- (a) Name of the owner of the property on which the well is situated.
- (b) Name of the building contractor, if applicable.
(c) Location of the well by:
- (1) Coordinates provided by global positioning technology in units of decimal degrees of latitude and longitude, with at least 5 decimal places of precision and referenced to the World Geodetic System 1984 (WGS 84) datum or its successor;
- (2) Street address of the property as listed in the enhanced 911 street address guide to the extent it is publicly available on the date of submission of the report;
- (3) Tax map and lot number of the property; and
- (4) A drawing indicating the position of each well, if more than one well is located within the lot, relative to significant permanent man-made or natural features at a given site.
- (d) Date well was completed.
- (e) Proposed use of well.
- (f) Reason for constructing well.
- (g) Type of well.
- (h) Total depth of well.
- (i) Casing details.
- (j) Method or methods of sealing casing into bedrock, if applicable.
- (k) Screen details, if applicable.
- (l) Results, method, and duration of yield test or tests conducted.
- (m) Static water level, if encountered.
- (n) Depth to bedrock.
- (o) Description and depth intervals of unconsolidated surficial deposits encountered during the well drilling process.
- (p) Yield test at various depths, if performed.
- (q) Hydro fracturing or other well development details, if applicable.
- (r) Name of water well contractor or technical driller.
- (s) Additional well seals installed, if applicable.
- (t) A statement specifying whether a water quality sample was collected by the driller.
- (u) If the well location does not comply with setback requirements for wells under New Hampshire law or rules of the water well board, a statement identifying the law or rule with which the wells do not comply.
- (v) Date of the report.
- (w) Any other information required by rules adopted by the water well board.
- II. At a minimum, the technical drillers shall comply with the requirements of paragraph I for the deepest monitoring well installed at each property or place of business and for each monitoring well installed into the bedrock at each property or place of business.
- III. If the technical driller does not comply with the requirements of paragraph I for all the monitoring wells the driller installs at a single property or place of business, then the technical driller shall prepare and submit a map showing the location of each monitoring well installed by the technical driller relative to significant permanent man-made or natural features at a given site and relative to wells located with GPS coordinates in accordance with paragraph I.
Source. 1989, 339:1. 1998, 89:15. 2007, 89:1, eff. Dec. 8, 2007. 2025, 141:113, eff. July 1, 2025.