(1) Every person or agency desiring to sink a well shall––
(a) inform the prescribed authority by at least 15 days prior notice in writing about his intension to do so ;
(b) erect a signboard on commencement of work near the well site indicating complete address of the user agency or the owner of the well and the drilling agency employed to sink the well ;
(c) erect barbed wire fencing or any other suitable barrier around the well during execution of work ;
(d) construct a concrete platform measuring 0.5 x 0.5 x 0.6 metre (0.3 metre below ground level and 0.3 metre above ground level) around the well casing ;
(e) cap the well assembly by welding steel plates or with nuts and bolts.
(2) On completion of work, such person or agency shall fill up the mud pits or channels and restore the ground condition to the position as existed before commencement of drilling operations or sinking of the well.
(3) If any user agency or owner of a well abandons such well, he shall fill up the abandoned well with clay, sand, boulders, pebbles or such other material from the bottom of such well to the ground level and obtain a certificate from the Executive Engineer concerned that such abandoned well has been properly filled up and capped.
(a) inform the prescribed authority by at least 15 days prior notice in writing about his intension to do so ;
(b) erect a signboard on commencement of work near the well site indicating complete address of the user agency or the owner of the well and the drilling agency employed to sink the well ;
(c) erect barbed wire fencing or any other suitable barrier around the well during execution of work ;
(d) construct a concrete platform measuring 0.5 x 0.5 x 0.6 metre (0.3 metre below ground level and 0.3 metre above ground level) around the well casing ;
(e) cap the well assembly by welding steel plates or with nuts and bolts.
(2) On completion of work, such person or agency shall fill up the mud pits or channels and restore the ground condition to the position as existed before commencement of drilling operations or sinking of the well.
(3) If any user agency or owner of a well abandons such well, he shall fill up the abandoned well with clay, sand, boulders, pebbles or such other material from the bottom of such well to the ground level and obtain a certificate from the Executive Engineer concerned that such abandoned well has been properly filled up and capped.
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