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Committee approves updated injection‑well rules, including framework for recycled water injection
Summary
The committee approved revised injection‑well rules that reorganize standards, clarify definitions and add a framework for potential injection of recycled municipal or industrial water into aquifers.
The Idaho Senate Resources and Environment Committee approved revised rules and minimum standards for the construction and use of injection wells (docket 3703032301), including a newly drafted section establishing standards for the quality of recycled water derived from municipal or industrial wastewater.
Eric Boe, the department’s Water Compliance Bureau Chief and rules regulation officer, told the committee the chapter was reorganized to make content easier to locate and to align definitions with other rule sets such as the Department of Environmental Quality’s recycled‑water rules. Boe said the chapter preserves primacy for Idaho to regulate Class 5 injection wells under the federal Safe Drinking Water Act, a primacy the…
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