Wis. Admin. Code NR 507.14
Documentation of monitoring devices and geologic sampling
Cite as Wis. Admin. Code NR § 507.14
Documentation of monitoring devices and geologic sampling.
Documentation of monitoring devices and geologic sampling. All well construction and abandonment, well development, and boring advancement and abandonment activities shall be documented and reported to the department in accordance with s. NR 141.23 and this section. These activities shall be documented in all major plan submittals including initial site reports, feasibility reports, plans of operation, construction documentation or environmental contamination assessment reports. If no plan is being prepared at the time of these activities, documentation of the activities shall be submitted to the department within 60 days after the activities.
(1) Well location. Documentation of all well locations shall be done in accordance with s. NR 141.065 . Geographic information system locational information shall be provided for all borings and wells. The locations shall be collected using a reference coordinate system and projection datum specified by the department. The reference coordinate system, projection datum, and units shall be provided for each point. The date, method, and tools used to collect locational information for each point shall be included. The department may approve in writing other methods of geolocation that provide similar or better accuracy.
(2) Soil and bedrock description. Documentation of soils and bedrock shall include all of the following:
(a) A description of each major soil sample unit including its structure, mottling, voids, layering, lenses and geologic origin and visual classification according to the unified soil classification system.
(b) A description of any continuous bedrock core samples including percent recovery, RQD and fracture frequency.
(3) Boring logs. Boring logs shall include all of the following:
(a) Elevations of land surface and bottom of boring, corrected to national geodetic survey datum.
(b) If the boring is converted to a well, the water level at the time of drilling, date of water level measurement and a well construction diagram on the boring log.
(4) Boring and well abandonment documentation. Documentation of the abandonment of wells and borings shall include all of the following:
(a) If the well is a public or private water supply well, any forms required under ss. NR 812.10 and 812.26 .
(b) Updated forms previously submitted to the department such as the groundwater monitoring well information form, to reflect the current condition of the monitoring system.
(c) Facility name, all facility identification numbers provided by the department, well or boring name, installation or completion date, and the name of the person or firm that completed the work. If a well is installed, documentation shall include well type and all identification numbers provided by the department.
(d) Monitoring well abandonment documentation in accordance with s. NR 141.25 that shall include the original well, drilling, and boring construction information and abandonment materials and methods, including whether well components were removed.
(e) For all monitoring wells or water supply wells located within the approved limits of waste, copies of completed well abandonment information required under par. (d) shall be included in an appendix of the liner construction documentation report for the landfill phase in which the well was located. The information required under this paragraph is in addition to the well abandonment reporting requirements of ss. NR 141.25 (4) and 812.26 (7) .
(5) Forms. Documentation of activities performed under this chapter shall be submitted on the most recent version of the department forms listed in this subsection at the time the activities were performed and be completed as instructed. The department may approve replicate forms generated by the facility owner or operator for use in submitting the required information. The forms include:
(a) Groundwater monitoring well information form 4400-089, for use whenever monitoring points are added or removed from the monitoring system, including water supply wells. Following this submittal of the form, future submittals may contain only the changes to the monitoring network being documented.
(b) Groundwater monitoring inventory form 3300-067 for all water supply wells.
(c) Monitoring well construction form 4400-113A.
(d) Monitoring well development form 4400-113B.
(e) Well/drillhole/borehole abandonment form 3300-005.
(f) Soil boring log information form 4400-122.
(6) Miscellaneous. The owner or operator shall document raw data and calculated results of in-situ hydraulic conductivity tests, water level measurements and dates, computations of well yield, if determined and any changes in well construction, casing elevation and other features subsequent to drilling.