42-3901 Ground Water as Public Resource — Protection
42-3902 Definitions
42-3902A Prohibition of Injection of Hazardous Wastes and of Radioactive Wastes
42-3903 Deep Injection Wells — Construction — Modification — Use — Permit Required
42-3903A Shallow Injection Wells — Authorization for Construction and Use
42-3904 Application for Permit — Owner — Operator Responsible — Notice of Construction Form
42-3905 Fees — Transmitted to State Treasurer
42-3907 Department of Water Resources — Public Notice and Investigation
42-3908 Permit Approving Construction and Use — Conditions — Rejection of Application
42-3909 Disapproval of Application — Owner or Operator Entitled to Hearing — Procedure — Judicial Review
42-3910 Cancellation of Permit — Notice — Hearing — Review
42-3911 Failure to Obtain Required Permit or Submit Required Information — Penalty
42-3912 Drillers — Must Be Licensed — Approved Permits — Certified Copies
42-3913 Minimum Standards — Rules and Regulations — Adoption
42-3914 Board to Establish Standards
42-3915 Adoption of Regulations
42-3916 Enforcement Procedure — Injunctive Relief
42-3917 Civil Penalties — Injection of Hazardous and Radioactive Wastes
42-3918 Cease and Desist Orders — Injection of Hazardous and Radioactive Wastes
42-3919 Criminal Penalty — Willful Violation — Violation of Cease and Desist Order

Terms Used In Idaho Code > Title 42 > Chapter 39 - Injection Wells

  • Aquifer: means any geologic formation that will yield water to a well in sufficient quantities to make production of water from the formation feasible for beneficial use, except when the water in such formation results solely from injection through a deep or shallow injection well. See Idaho Code 42-3902
  • Common law: The legal system that originated in England and is now in use in the United States. It is based on judicial decisions rather than legislative action.
  • Corporation: A legal entity owned by the holders of shares of stock that have been issued, and that can own, receive, and transfer property, and carry on business in its own name.
  • Deep injection well: means an injection well which is more than eighteen (18) feet in vertical depth below land surface. See Idaho Code 42-3902
  • Director: means the director of the department of water resources. See Idaho Code 42-3902
  • Drinking water source: means an aquifer which contains water having less than ten thousand (10,000) mg/l total dissolved solids and has not been exempted from this designation by the director of the department of water resources. See Idaho Code 42-3902
  • Evidence: Information presented in testimony or in documents that is used to persuade the fact finder (judge or jury) to decide the case for one side or the other.
  • Fluid: means any material or substance which flows or moves whether in a semisolid, liquid, sludge, gaseous or any other form or state. See Idaho Code 42-3902
  • Formation: means a body of consolidated or unconsolidated rock characterized by a degree of lithologic homogeneity which is mappable at the earth’s surface or traceable in the subsurface. See Idaho Code 42-3902
  • Hazardous waste: means any fluid or combination of fluids, excluding radioactive wastes, which because of quantity, concentration or characteristics (physical, chemical or biological) may:
Idaho Code 42-3902
  • Injection: means the subsurface emplacement of fluids through an injection well, but excludes the following:
    • Idaho Code 42-3902
  • Injection well: means any feature that is operated to allow injection which also meets at least one (1) of the following criteria:
    • Idaho Code 42-3902
  • Injunction: An order of the court prohibiting (or compelling) the performance of a specific act to prevent irreparable damage or injury.
  • Irrigation waste water: means excess surface water from agricultural fields generated during any agricultural operation, including runoff of irrigation tailwater, as well as natural drainage resulting from precipitation, snowmelt and floodwaters. See Idaho Code 42-3902
  • Licensed driller: means any person holding a valid license to drill water wells in Idaho as provided and defined in section 42-238, Idaho Code. See Idaho Code 42-3902
  • Municipality: means a city incorporated under section 50-102, Idaho Code, a county, or the state of Idaho acting through a department or institution. See Idaho Code 42-202B
  • Operate: means to allow fluids to enter an injection well by action or by inaction of the operator. See Idaho Code 42-3902
  • Operator: means any individual, group of individuals, partnership, company, corporation, municipality, county, state agency, taxing district or federal agency who operates or proposes to operate any injection well. See Idaho Code 42-3902
  • Owner: means any individual, group of individuals, partnership, company, corporation, municipality, county, state agency, taxing district, or federal agency owning land on which any injection well exists or is proposed to be constructed. See Idaho Code 42-3902
  • Partnership: A voluntary contract between two or more persons to pool some or all of their assets into a business, with the agreement that there will be a proportional sharing of profits and losses.
  • person: includes a corporation as well as a natural person;
    • Idaho Code 73-114
  • Radioactive material: means any material, solid, liquid or gas which emits radiation spontaneously. See Idaho Code 42-3902
  • Radioactive waste: means any fluid which contains radioactive material in concentrations which exceed those established for discharges to water by 10 CFR 20. See Idaho Code 42-3902
  • Shallow injection well: means an injection well which is less than or equal to eighteen (18) feet in vertical depth below land surface. See Idaho Code 42-3902
  • State: when applied to the different parts of the United States, includes the District of Columbia and the territories; and the words "United States" may include the District of Columbia and territories. See Idaho Code 73-114
  • Statute: A law passed by a legislature.
  • Surface runoff water: means runoff water from the natural ground surface and cropland. See Idaho Code 42-3902
  • Temporary restraining order: Prohibits a person from an action that is likely to cause irreparable harm. This differs from an injunction in that it may be granted immediately, without notice to the opposing party, and without a hearing. It is intended to last only until a hearing can be held.
  • Testimony: Evidence presented orally by witnesses during trials or before grand juries.
  • Transcript: A written, word-for-word record of what was said, either in a proceeding such as a trial or during some other conversation, as in a transcript of a hearing or oral deposition.