DDW-2024-006637

March 19, 2024
Chance Baxter
Bear River Water Conservancy District
102 West Forest Street
Brigham City, Utah 84302
Subject:Plan Approval, Well Drilling, Harper Ward Well (WS002);
Bear River WCD - Harper Ward, System #02068, File #13615, SRF# 3S1849
Dear Chance Baxter:The Division of Drinking Water (the Division) received the plans and specifications for the proposed drilling of the Harper Ward Well from your consultant, Scott Greenhalgh
on January 20, 2024. The Division provided review comments to your consultant on February 22, 2024. The Division received revised specifications on February 26, 2024.
We understand that this project consists of drilling a new drinking water well using cable tool methods to an approximate depth of 420 feet below ground surface (bgs). The well will
consist of a new 12-inch diameter carbon steel production casing between 0 and 420 feet bgs. The production casing will be perforated between 360 and 400 feet bgs. A 16-inch diameter
conductor casing will be installed between 0 and approximately 120 feet bgs. The Harper Ward Well is identified as WS002 in the Division’s database.
We have received the following information for the Harper Ward Well:
Plans and specifications for borehole and well drilling.
Preliminary Evaluation Report.
Valid Start Card from the Division of Water Rights.
We have completed our review of the plans and specifications, stamped, and signed by J. Lance Nielsen, P.E., dated 7/19/2023, and found they basically comply with the applicable portions
of Utah’s Administrative Rules for Public Drinking Water Systems. On this basis, the plans and specifications for drilling the Harper Ward Well are hereby approved. This approval pertains
to well drilling, development, aquifer testing, and disinfection of Harper Ward 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 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 Harper Ward 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 UTAH02068 and WS002 (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.
Preliminary Evaluation Report Concurrence
The Division received the Preliminary Evaluation Report (PER) for Harper Ward Well #1 and Harper Ward Well #2 from your consultant, Lance Nielsen, P.E., with Hansen, Allen & Luce, Inc.
on January 30, 2024, with supplemental information requested and submitted on February 15, 2024. The Division concurs with this report. This PER must be refined, and a complete Drinking
Water Source Protection (DWSP) Plan 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 Box Elder County to be covered under the Box Elder County Drinking Water Source Protection Ordinance before the wells can receive Operating Permits. If you have any
questions about the source protection requirements, please contact Noah Zorsky at [phone] or via email at [e-mail].
The project, as described herein, is generally eligible for assistance under the state Drinking Water State Revolving Fund Financial Assistance Program. All change orders must be reviewed
and approved for compliance with the Drinking Water Rules, the conditions of this construction approval, and the DWSRF Program’s financial assistance requirements.
The project may now be advertised for bids. But, as a condition of the project funding, you must not award the contract or proceed with construction until the Division of Drinking Water
has authorized you to do so. This is necessary to comply with applicable requirements and to protect you, as the funding recipient, by ensuring that the contract meets the requirements
for funded projects.
If you have any questions regarding this approval, please contact Hunter Payne, of this office, at [phone], or me at [phone].
Sincerely,
Michael Newberry, P.E.
Permitting and Engineering Support Manager
HP/NZ/DLB/mrn/mdbEnclosure — Well Approval Checklistcc:Ben Harker, Bear River Health Department, [e-mail] Nielsen, P.E., Hansen, Allen, & Luce, [e-mail]
Greenhalgh, P.G., Hansen, Allen, & Luce, [e-mail] Baxter, Bear River Water Conservancy District, [e-mail] Payne, Division of Drinking Water, [e-mail]
Zorsky, P.G., Division of Drinking Water, [e-mail] Spevak, Division of Drinking Water, [e-mail]
hpayne 02068 13615 PA Well DrillingDivision 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