DDW-2024-006762

March 21, 2024
Ben Mower
Ballard Water Improvement District
2381 East 1000 South
Ballard, Utah 84066
Subject:Plan Approval, Well Drilling, Ballard 7000 North Well (WS003) System #24001, File #13628, SRF #1896
Dear Ben Mower:The Division of Drinking Water (the Division) received the plans and specifications for the proposed drilling of the Ballard 7000 North well from your consultant, CRS
Engineering on February 21, 2024. The Division issued review comments on March 2, 2024, and updated plans and specifications were received on March 12, 2024. The Division understands
that the project consists of drilling a new well northwest of the intersection of 3500 East and 7000 North in Ballard. The new well is identified as WS003 in the Division’s database.
The Division has received the following information for the new well:
Plans and specifications for borehole and well drilling.
Preliminary Evaluation Report.
Valid Start Card from the Division of Water Rights.
The Division has completed its review of the plans and specifications, stamped, and signed by Mark Edward Chandler, P.E., and dated January 22, 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 the 7000 North Well are hereby approved. This approval
pertains to well drilling, development, aquifer testing, and disinfection of the new only. Please be aware that discharge permits may be required by the 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 the 7000 North 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 UTAH24001 and WS003 (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 the Ballard 7000 North Well from your consultant, CRS Engineering, on February 21, 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).
If you have any questions about the source protection requirements, please contact Noah Zorsky at [phone] or via email at [e-mail].
State Revolving Fund Requirements
The project, as described herein, is generally eligible for assistance under the Drinking Water Construction Assistance Program. All change orders will need to be reviewed and approved
for compliance with the Drinking Water Rules and the conditions of this construction approval.
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.
Federal regulations require that a concerted effort must be made to encourage the participation of small and disadvantaged business enterprises (DBE) by providing requisite information,
including plans and specifications on the project. In order to provide opportunities to DBE subcontractors, utilization goals for Minority-owned Business Enterprises (MBE) and Women-owned
Business Enterprises (WBE) have been determined to be 4% and 2%, respectively. As outlined in the contract documents, the prime contractor must submit a list of prepared MBE/WBE subcontractors
to be used on this project and documentation of solicitation efforts with the bid. The prime contractor's efforts to provide opportunities to DBEs must be reviewed and approved by this
office before the contract can be awarded.
If you have any questions regarding this approval, please contact Nathan Hall, P.E., TriCounty DEQ District Engineer at [phone], or me at [phone].
Sincerely,
Michael Newberry, P.E.
Permitting and Engineering Support Manager
NDH/NAZ/hp/mrn/mdbEnclosure — Well Approval Checklist
cc: Darrin Brown, TriCounty Health Department, [e-mail]
Ben Mower, Ballard WID, [e-mail]
Mark Chandler, CRS Engineering, [e-mail]
Nathan Hall, DEQ District Engineer, [e-mail] Ross, Division of Drinking Water, [e-mail] 24001 13628 PA Drilling - 7000 N WellDivision 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