DIVISION 1. GENERAL STATE POWERS OVER WATER 100-540›CHAPTER 2.5. Miscellaneous Powers of Department 205-347›ARTICLE 2. Surveys, Investigations, and Distribution of Water 225-238
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California Water Code · 2018-11 edition · updated 2026-10-04 · California
The department, either independently or in cooperation with any person or any county, state, federal or other agency, shall investigate and survey conditions of damage to quality of underground waters, which conditions are or may be caused by improperly constructed, abandoned or defective wells through the interconnection of strata or the introduction of surface waters into underground waters. The department shall report to the appropriate California regional water quality control board its recommendations for minimum standards of well construction in any particular locality in which it deems regulation necessary to protection of quality of underground water, and shall report to the Legislature from time to time, its recommendations for proper sealing of abandoned wells.
(Amended by Stats. 1969, Ch. 482.)
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