- (a) “Back-up well” means a new production well that is installed to provide redundancy for an existing primary production well that operates and impacts water users and resources in a similar manner as the primary production well.
- (b) “Background well” means a monitoring well outside the expected area of influence of the test well that serves to identify regional background conditions throughout the pumping test program.
- (c) “Cone of depression” means a depression in the potentiometric surface of a body of groundwater that develops around a well from which water is being withdrawn and corresponds to the zone of influence of the withdrawal.
- (d) “Flow net” means a map showing lines of equal hydraulic head with lines showing the direction of groundwater flow such that the amount of groundwater flow through all sections of the net is equal.
- (e) “Large bedrock production well” means a large production well that is a bedrock well.
- (f) “Large overburden production well” means a large production well that is an overburden well.
- (g) “Large production well” means a production well having a permitted production volume of equal to or greater than 57,600 gallons in a 24-hour period.
- (h) “Monitoring well” means a well that is used to observe or sample groundwater.
- (i) “Porous media assumption” means groundwater flow that conforms to Darcy's Law, mainly flow through porous media that is laminar and of low velocity.
- (j) “Test well” means a well that is used during a pumping test from which groundwater is withdrawn or pumped, which might or might not become the large production well.
Source. (See Revision Notes #1 and #2 at part heading for Env-Dw 302) #11061, eff 4-1-16