DDW-2025-003343

April 9, 2025
Rodney Wheeler
Stockton Town Water System
P.O. Box 240
Stockton, Utah 84071
Subject:Plan Approval, Well Drilling, Solider Canyon Well (WS011);
Stockton Town Water System, System #23010, File #19940
Dear Rodney Wheeler:The Division of Drinking Water (the Division) received the plans and specifications for the proposed Stockton Solider Canyon Well from your consultant, Christopher
DeKorver, and Bowen Collins & Associates on March 4, 2025. Review comments were sent on March 20, 2025, and the valid Well Drillers Start Card was received on March 25, 2025.
We understand that this project consists of the drilling and installation of a 24-inch diameter
surface casing to an approximate depth of 40 feet, the casing to be approximately 200 feet of
12-inch diameter steel blank casing, and 700 feet of 12-inch diameter wire wrap SS 304 screen;
installation of certified cement grout of the 12-inch surface casing to approximately 200 feet (as noted in the revised plan submittal received on 3-31-25); installation of gravel pack
and certified cement grout well seal of the 12-inch diameter production casing and screen assembly; and development and test pumping of the proposed Solider Canyon Well (identified as
WS011 in the Division’s database).
We have received the following information for Solider Canyon 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 Christopher DeKorver P.G. and dated March 4. 2025,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 Solider Canyon Well are hereby approved. This approval pertains to well
drilling, development, aquifer testing, and disinfection of Solider Canyon 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 Solider Canyon 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 UTAH23010 and WS011 (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 has also reviewed the Preliminary Evaluation Report (PER) for this source submitted by your consultant on March 4, 2024. The Division concurs with this report. This report
must be refined, and a complete Drinking Water Source Protection (DWSP) plan submitted within one year of the date of this letter. Refer to R309-600-13(6) and R309-600-7(1).
Please contact Noah Zorsky, P.G., at [phone] or at [e-mail] if you have questions or concerns about the review of your Preliminary Evaluation Report.
If you have any questions regarding this approval, please contact Brent Arns, of this office, at [phone], or me at [phone].
Sincerely,
Michael Newberry, P.E.
Permitting and Engineering Support Manager
BA/NAZ/mrn/mdbEnclosure — Well Approval Checklistcc:Bryan Slade, Tooele County Health Department, [e-mail] DeKorver, Bowen Collins & Associates, [e-mail]
Meli, Stockton Town, [e-mail] Wheeler, Stockton Town, [e-mail] Justin Huffman, Stockton Town, [e-mail] Zorsky, P.G.,
Division of Drinking Water, [e-mail] Martin, P.E., Division of Drinking Water, [e-mail] Arns, Division of Drinking Water, [e-mail]23010 19940 Solider
Canyon Well Drilling 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