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Committee advances amended bill to regulate domestic wells in critical groundwater areas
Summary
The House Resources and Conservation Committee advanced Senate Bill 1083 as amended after the sponsor and stakeholders described measures to bring domestic well users into groundwater planning in critical areas and allow consolidation of subdivision wells.
The House Resources and Conservation Committee advanced Senate Bill 1083 as amended after an extended hearing with lawmakers and stakeholders about domestic wells and critical groundwater areas.
Representative Doug Pickett, sponsor, told the committee the bill is “the result of a long standing effort on the part of many, many interests in the State to address ongoing water concerns.” He said domestic wells account for a small share of total statewide use but that growth has produced many new diversion points: “over a 20 year period of time, 56,000 domestic wells have been drilled in Idaho,” he said, and those wells can cumulatively add up to significant new diversions.
Pickett described four primary elements of the bill:…
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