Aquifer Mining definition

Aquifer Mining means the existence of that condition where the average annual available recharge of an aquifer or portion of an aquifer is less than the annual production from that aquifer. For purposes of these rules the terms “aquifer overdrafting”, “reduction of artesian pressure”, and “the drawdown of the water table or aquifer”, means aquifer mining.
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Related to Aquifer Mining

  • Aquifer means a geologic formation, group of formations, or part of a formation capable of yielding a significant amount of groundwater to wells or springs.

  • Uppermost aquifer means the geologic formation nearest the natural ground surface that is an aquifer, as well as lower aquifers that are hydraulically interconnected with this aquifer within the facility's property boundary.

  • Underground mining means all methods of mining other than surface mining.

  • Vegetation means trees, shrubs, nursery stock and other vegetation and includes the limbs or growth of any Vegetation.

  • Water surface elevation means the height, in relation to the National Geodetic Vertical Datum (NGVD) of 1929, the North American Vertical Datum (NAVD) of 1988, or other datum, where specified, of floods of various magnitudes and frequencies in the floodplains of riverine areas.