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.
Cal. Water Code § 231
Surveys, Investigations, and Distribution of Water
Applied in 2 court decisions — leading case 130 Cal. App. 4th 162 - Communications Relay Corp. v. County of Los Angeles (2005)
Most recently applied in Cal. Water Impact Network v. Cnty. of San Luis Obispo (June 2018)
Amended by Stats. 1969, Ch. 482.
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