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Committee approves revised injection-well rules, adds framework for recycled-water injection
Summary
The Senate Resources and Environment Committee approved updated injection-well rules that reorganize permitting standards, align definitions with other state rules, and add standards for potential injection of recycled municipal and industrial wastewater.
The Idaho Senate Resources and Environment Committee approved a revised chapter on injection wells that the department says balances groundwater protection with new uses such as land application and potential recycled-water injection.
Eric Boe, Water Compliance Bureau Chief and rules review officer for the Department of Water Resources, told the committee the injection-well rules (docket 3703032301) provide procedures and minimum construction and operational standards for injection wells and are necessary to maintain the state's primacy over Class 5 injection-well regulation under the federal Safe Drinking Water Act of 1974. "The injection well rules specifically address classifications of injection wells, authorizations…
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