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In 1949, the California Legislature concluded that collecting information on newly constructed, modified or destroyed wells would be valuable in the event of underground pollution, and would provide geologic information on the State's groundwater basins. The California Water Code (Section 13700) recognizes that improperly constructed and abandoned water wells can be a source of groundwater contamination and a threat to public health, and requires water well drillers to file a Well Completion Report (WCR) form with the California Department of Water Resources (Section 13751). WCRs contain information collected by drillers during the drilling and construction of water wells, including the location, dates of construction, planned use, depth of the well, subsurface geologic units encountered, well construction, and well yield. California Water Code Section 13752 allows for the release of copies of well completion reports to governmental agencies and to the public. DWR is now making well completion reports information available online. The associated data are considered DWR enterprise GIS data, which meet all appropriate requirements of the DWR Spatial Data Standards, specifically the DWR Spatial Data Standard version 2.1, dated March 9, 2016. DWR makes no warranties or guarantees —either expressed or implied — as to the completeness, accuracy, or correctness of the data. DWR neither accepts nor assumes liability arising from or for any incorrect, incomplete, or misleading subject data. Comments, problems, improvements, updates, or suggestions should be forwarded to gis@water.ca.gov. |
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In 1949, the California Legislature concluded that collecting information on newly constructed, modified or destroyed wells would be valuable in the event of underground pollution, and would provide geologic information on the State's groundwater basins. The California Water Code (Section 13700) recognizes that improperly constructed and abandoned water wells can be a source of groundwater contamination and a threat to public health, and requires water well drillers to file a Well Completion Report (WCR) form with the California Department of Water Resources (Section 13751). WCRs contain information collected by drillers during the drilling and construction of water wells, including the location, dates of construction, planned use, depth of the well, subsurface geologic units encountered, well construction, and well yield. California Water Code Section 13752 allows for the release of copies of well completion reports to governmental agencies and to the public. DWR is now making well completion reports information available online. The associated data are considered DWR enterprise GIS data, which meet all appropriate requirements of the DWR Spatial Data Standards, specifically the DWR Spatial Data Standard version 2.1, dated March 9, 2016. DWR makes no warranties or guarantees —either expressed or implied — as to the completeness, accuracy, or correctness of the data. DWR neither accepts nor assumes liability arising from or for any incorrect, incomplete, or misleading subject data. Comments, problems, improvements, updates, or suggestions should be forwarded to gis@water.ca.gov. |
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<DIV STYLE="text-align:Left;"><DIV><DIV><P><SPAN>This feature class represents well statistics for different well use categories. This polygon feature class is based on the Public Land Survey System (PLSS) sections, and summarizes the well count, as well as average, minimum, and maximum well depths for domestic, public, and production wells. This PLSS section layer is based on the PLSNET layer that the Department of Pesticide Regulation hosts, which includes projected sections. Well statistics are based on records from the California Department of Water Resources' (DWR) Online System for Well Completion Reports (OSWCR). Statistics are provided for private supply wells, public supply wells, and production wells. Production wells include those wells that are designated as irrigation, municipal, public, or industrial on Well Completion Reports. Limitations of the underlying Well Completion Reports data include missing and incorrect values. Statistics are based on Well Completion Report records with WCR Types 'New' and 'Modification or Repair' and may double count wells in some cases. This feature class is for qualitative informational purposes only.</SPAN></P></DIV></DIV></DIV> |
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<DIV STYLE="text-align:Left;"><DIV><DIV><P><SPAN>DWR makes no warranties or guarantees —either expressed or implied — as to the completeness, accuracy, or correctness of the data. DWR neither accepts nor assumes liability arising from or for any incorrect, incomplete, or misleading subject data.</SPAN></P></DIV></DIV></DIV> |
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