Kan. Admin. Regs. § 82-3-601a - Pit construction; sensitive groundwater areas; reporting
(a) Freeboard. All
drilling, work-over, burn, and containment pits shall be constructed with a
minimum of 12 inches of freeboard. All emergency and settling pits shall be
constructed with a minimum of 30 inches of freeboard.
(b) Pit construction. If required by the
conservation division to be sealed, pits shall be constructed so that the
bottoms and sides have a hydraulic conductivity no greater than 1 * 10-7
cm/sec. during their use. The hydraulic conductivity shall be established by
liners, which shall include any of the following:
(1) A natural clay liner;
(2) a soil-mixture liner composed of soil
mixed with cement, bentonite, clay-type, or other additives to be applied to
pits whose walls do not exceed a slope of three to one;
(3) a recompacted clay liner composed of in
situ or imported clay soils that are compacted or restructured to be applied to
pits whose walls do not exceed a slope of three to one;
(4) a manufactured liner composed of
synthetic material to be applied to pits in a manner that ensures its integrity
while the pit is open;
(5) a
combination of two or more types of liners described in paragraphs (b)(1)
through (4); or
(6) any other
liner or groundwater protection system acceptable to the conservation division.
(c) Emergency pit
construction. In sensitive groundwater areas as designated in table III as
adopted by reference in K.A.R. 82-3-601b, emergency pits shall be sealed.
Emergency pits located in sensitive groundwater areas shall be constructed and
sealed as set out in paragraphs (b) (1) through (6).
(d) Construction depth. No pit shall be
constructed to a depth greater than five feet above the shallowest existing
water table in the vicinity of the well.
(e) Reporting.
(1) The hydraulic conductivity of natural
liners shall be determined by one of the soil tests approved by the American
society of testing and materials and contained in either of the following ASTM
publications, both of which are hereby adopted by reference:
(A) "Standard test methods for measurement of
hydraulic conductivity of saturated porous materials using a flexible wall
permeameter," published January 2001; and
(B) "standard guide for comparison of field
methods for determining hydraulic conductivity in the vadose zone," published
December 1990 and reapproved in 1998.
Alternately, the hydraulic conductivity of natural liners shall be determined by using another field or laboratory test approved by the commission and conducted by either the operator or the operator's contractor.
(2)
(A) Test results for pits required to be
sealed according to subsection (b) shall be reported to the appropriate
district office at the time of spud notification.
(B) Written documentation of test results
shall be filed with the conservation division on a form prescribed by the
commission within five days after spudding the well.
(C) Test results for work-over and emergency
pits shall be reported to the conservation division when the pit application is
filed.
(D) The right to verify
test results through on-site investigation may be exercised by the conservation
division.
Notes
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