Well owner definition

Well owner or “Well Operator” – means the person who owns the groundwater where a well is located or is to be located or the person who operates a well or a water distribution system supplied by a well.

Well owner means the person who owns a possessory interest in: (1) the land upon which a well or well system is located or to be located; (2) a well or well system; and (3) a person that has the legal right to occupy the property and to capture groundwater withdrawn from a specific well or well system located on the property. The term "well owner" includes, but is not limited to, a person that holds an operating permit for the well; a person who owns the well or who has leased the water rights for the well and property on which the well is located; and the landowner to the extent the water rights have not been leased or otherwise severed. [Amended June 12, 2012]

Well owner means any person or his or her agent who holds the title or other property rights in or to a well.

Examples of Well owner in a sentence

• The Subdistrict will mail out a notice to each Subdistrict Member and Contract Well owner when the fee calculation process is complete.

• The Subdistrict Board of Managers requires a Subdistrict or Contract Well owner to notify the Subdistrict if there is a water court or Division of Water Resources administrative change as to the conditions of the groundwater right at the time of joining the Subdistrict.

• At a minimum, the form of security must be sufficient to fund the obligations of the Contract Well owner to the Subdistrict for the term of the contract plus twenty (20) years.

• Subdistrict Wells with multiple application types will be classified into the highest applicable consumptive use tier for that particular Subdistrict Well unless the Subdistrict Well owner can meter each application type separately utilizing a totalizing flow meter approved under the Measurement Rules or an approved alternative method for measurement as described in Rule 6.0 below.

• Any complaint as to the individual Subdistrict Well groundwater withdrawal amounts obtained by the Subdistrict from the records of the Division of Water Resources or an approved alternate method of measurement must be made to the Subdistrict no later than September 1st of the year in which the notice, described in Rule 5.6.5 above, is sent to the Subdistrict Well owner.

More Definitions of Well owner

Well owner means a person who has an ownership interest in a well, operates a well, owns land on which a well is located, or owns the water withdrawn or to be withdrawn from a well.

Well owner means the person who owns the land upon which a well is located or is to be located, or a person who owns an easement that allows that person to drill or operate a well.

Well owner means the person who holds a possessory interest in: (1) the land upon which a well is located or to be located, and who has authority to and who may lawfully produce groundwater from this land and/or (2) the well itself as long as this person has the authority to produce groundwater from the land on which the well is located, as evidenced by written documentation that establishes the consent of the landowner to this person’s ownership and operation of the well.

Well owner means any person who owns land used for any purpose on which a well has been drilled.

Well owner means the person who owns a possessory interest in the land upon which a well or well system is located or to be located.

Well owner means the person who owns the real property on which a well exists or is to be drilled provided however, in the case of any monitoring well or remediation required by the Department or the Commissioner, the well owner shall be the person responsible for such monitoring or remediation.

Well owner means the person who owns a possessory interest in: (1) the land upon which a well or well system is located; or (2) the well or well system.