Water Systems Council

State & Federal Policy Activities

Special Report #1: Mandatory Hookup Report - Updated January 2007 - This report reviews applicable state statutes and case law authorizing local mandatory water connection ordinances in each of the 50 states, and federal court decisions related to mandatory water connection ordinances.

Special Report #2: Who Owns the Water - Updated October 2005 - WSC's two-year-old report on water rights laws across the nation, Who Owns the Water, was updated in response to a variety of developments in the field. The new version contains a more detailed discussion of state groundwater permitting statutes and rules, and includes a review of the relationships and impacts of state water laws and court cases dealing with water rights.

Special Report #3: The Well Log: A Survey of Water Well Completion Report Requirements - Well drillers are commonly required to submit a Well Completion Report (also known as a Well Driller's Report or a Well Log) to a state agency upon completion of a water well. This report documents the well drilling and construction process as a permanent record that can be used for statistical anaylses and included in the property deed, for hydro-geological mapping and numerous other purposes. Forty-seven (47) states in the United States require Well Completion Reports. Delaware, Georgia and Rhode Island do not require these reports.

Special Report #4: The Water Well Census: A Compilation of Domestic Water Well Data - Water supply and land use planning both rely on information pertaining to domestic wells. Information relating to abandoned wells is vital to the protection of water quality. Records of new and existing wells, plus well yield information, can significantly aid planners and policy makers in many areas. This report contains information from the 1990 U.S. Census and best available data from state agencies for 2002 and subsquent years. Note that while many states constantly update their databases, in others state officials expressed limitations on their data. Some states experience difficulty obtaining complete data and each state keeps the data in different forms.

Special Report #5: Household Wells Data - Household Wells Data: Number and Types of Wells by State and County or Other Locality. The 1990 United States Census was the last census to include data on household water source. These data include information on the number and type of wells nationally as well as the number of household wells in each state. State data are broken down further on a county, township, parish or other locality basis. Water Systems Council (WSC) has compiled this data in this special report.

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