DDW-2024-009605

August 6, 2024
Rodney Dastrup
Holden Town
P.O. Box 127
Holden, Utah 84636
Subject:Plan Approval, Well Drilling, Dobson Well (WS004);
Holden Town, System #14013, File #13234, SRF #3F1847
Dear Rodney Dastrup:The Division of Drinking Water (the Division) received the plans and specifications for drilling the Dobson Well (WS004) from your consultant, Jesse Ralphs with Sunrise
Engineering, on July 29, 2024.
We understand that this project consists of drilling a new well southeast of Holden Town. The new well will be drilled to a depth of 600 feet, with a borehole diameter of 20-inches and
permanent 12-inch diameter steel casing and screen. This project will include developing, test pumping and sampling the water from this well. The Dobson Well is identified as WS004 in
the Division’s database.
We have received the following information for drilling the Dobson Well:
Plans and specifications for borehole and well drilling.
Preliminary Evaluation Report
We have completed our review of the plans and specifications, stamped, and signed by Jesse M. Ralphs, P.E., and dated July 26, 2024,and found they basically comply with the applicable
portions of Utah’s Administrative Rules for Public Drinking Water Systems. On this basis, the plans for drilling and developing the Dobson Well are hereby approved. This approval pertains
to well drilling, development, aquifer testing, and disinfection of the Dobson Well only. Please be aware that discharge permits may be required by Utah Division of Water Quality for
discharges generated during well drilling and aquifer drawdown testing.
The Utah Division of Water Rights (State Engineer’s Office) regulates the drilling of water wells. Before the drilling of a well commences, the well driller must receive a start card
from the State Engineer’s Office. Please be aware that, for public drinking water supply wells, in addition to the Division of Drinking Water’s R309-515 rule, the Division of Water Rights’
rule R655-4 also applies and shall be followed.
After drilling is completed, you are required to submit additional information outlined in R309-515-6(5)(b) and (c) for review andobtain an approval from the Director for equipping this
well and constructing discharge piping and infrastructure necessary for introducing the well water into the distribution system. After obtaining the well equipping approval, you’ll then
be required to obtain an Operating Permit before the Dobson Well may be put in service. A checklist outlining the well approval process, including the items required for well equipping
and an Operating Permit, is enclosed for your information.
Please label the well water sample collected for new source chemical analysis with your water system number UTAH14013 and WS004 (for both the facility ID and sample point ID) on all
laboratory forms for each individual source. This will ensure proper identification and entry of the new source chemical analysis results in our database.
Approvals or permits from the local authority or county may be necessary before beginning construction of this project. As the project proceeds, notice of any changes in the approved
design, as well as any change affecting the quantity or quality of the delivered water, must be submitted to the Division. We may also conduct interim and final inspections of this project.
Please notify us when actual construction begins so that these inspections can be scheduled.
This approval must be renewed if construction has not begun or if substantial materials have not been ordered within one year of the date of this letter.
Concurrence – Preliminary Evaluation Report
The Division received the Preliminary Evaluation Report (PER) for the Holden Town Dobson Well from your consultant, Dao Yang, P.E., and Sunrise Engineering on July 11, 2024. The Division
concurs with this report. This PER must be refined, and a complete Drinking Water Source Protection (DWSP) Plan is submitted within one (1) year of the date of this letter. Refer to
R309-600-13(6) and R309-600-7(1). You must submit proof that the delineation has been submitted to Millard County to be covered under the Millard County Drinking Water Source Protection
Ordinance before the well can receive an operating permit.
Please contact Melissa Noble at [phone] or at [e-mail] if you have questions or concerns about the review of your Preliminary Evaluation Report.Well drilling will be funded
with USDA-RD funds and not SRF funds therefore eliminating the SRF requirements on plan approval for drilling only.
If you have any questions regarding this approval, please contact John Chartier, P.E., DEQ Central District Engineer, at [phone], or me at [phone].
Sincerely,
Michael Newberry, P.E.
Permitting and Engineering Support Manager
JLC/MNN/mrn/mdbEnclosure — Well Approval Checklistcc:Eric Larsen, Central Utah Public Health Department, [e-mail] Jesse Ralphs, P.E., Sunrise Engineering, [e-mail]
Rodney Dastrup, Holden Town, [e-mail] John Chartier, P.E., DEQ Central District Engineer, [e-mail] Melissa Noble, P.G., Division of Drinking Water, [e-mail]
Heather Pattee, Division of Drinking Water, [e-mail] jchartier 14013 13234 PADivision of Drinking WaterChecklist for New Public Drinking Water Wells
(per Utah Administrative Code, Rule R309-515-6)
System Name:System Number:Well Name & Description:1.Approval to Drill the Well
☐Project Notification Form (PNF)
☐Preliminary Evaluation Report (PER) concurrence
☐Well drilling specifications and plans
☐Valid Start Card or authorization to drill letter from the Division of Water Rights2.Approval to Equip the Well
☐PNF (if the well drilling and well equipping are designed by different consultants)
☐Well location data
☐Certification of well seal
☐Well driller’s report (well log)
☐Aquifer drawdown test results (step drawdown test & constant-rate test) for well yield determination
☐Chemical analyses of the well water
☐Plans and specifications for equipping the well

☐Pump information (e.g., pump specifications, pump curve & operating point, motor information, etc.)
☐Well head discharge piping
☐Well house design3.Operating Permit to Introduce the Well Water
☐Documentation of valid water right(s)
☐Recorded land use agreements, or documentation that the requirements for coverage under the City/County source protection ordinance have been met
☐Design engineer’s certification of conformance with plan approval conditions
☐Design engineer’s certification of rule conformance for any deviation from approved plans
☐As-built or record drawings
☐Evidence of O&M manual delivery to system owner
☐Satisfactory bacteriological results as evidence of proper flushing and disinfection