4 Va. Admin. Code § 25-150-90 - Plats
A. When filing an
application for a permit for a well or corehole, the applicant also shall file
an accurate plat certified by a licensed professional engineer or licensed land
surveyor on a scale, to be stated thereon, of 1 inch equals 400 feet (1:4800).
The scope of the plat shall be large enough to show the board approved unit and
all areas within the greater of 750 feet or one half of the distance specified
in §
45.2-1616 of the Code of
Virginia from the proposed well or corehole. The plat shall be submitted on a
form prescribed by the director.
B.
The known courses and distances of all property lines and lines connecting the
permanent points, landmarks or corners within the scope of the plat shall be
shown thereon. All lines actually surveyed shall be shown as solid lines. Lines
taken from deed or chain of title descriptions only shall be shown by broken
lines. All property lines shown on a plat shall agree with any one of the
following: surveys, deed descriptions, or acreages used in county records for
tax assessment purposes.
C. A north
and south line shall be given and shown on the plat, and point to the top of
the plat.
D. Wells or coreholes
shall be located on the plat as follows:
1.
The proposed or actual surface elevation of the subject well or corehole shall
be shown on the plat, within an accuracy of one vertical foot. The surface
elevation shall be tied to either a government benchmark or other point of
proven elevation by differential or aerial survey, by trigonometric leveling,
or by global positioning system (GPS) survey. The location of the government
benchmark or the point of proven elevation and the method used to determine the
surface elevation of the subject well or corehole shall be noted and described
on the plat.
2. The proposed or
actual horizontal location of the subject well or corehole determined by survey
shall be shown on the plat. The proposed or actual well or corehole location
shall be shown in accordance with the Virginia Coordinate System of 1983, as
defined in §
1-600 of the Code of Virginia, also
known as the State Plane Coordinate System.
3. The courses and distances of the well or
corehole location from two permanent points or landmarks on the tract shall be
shown; such landmarks shall be set stones, iron pipes, T-rails or other
manufactured monuments, including mine coordinate monuments, and operating or
abandoned wells which are platted to the accuracy standards of this section and
on file with the division. If temporary points are to be used to locate the
actual well or corehole location as provided for in
4VAC25-150-290, the courses and
distances of the well or corehole location from the two temporary points shall
be shown.
4. Any other well,
permitted or drilled, within the distance specified in §
45.2-1616 of the Code of
Virginia or the distance to the nearest well completed in the same pool,
whichever is less, or within the boundaries of a drilling unit established by
the board around the subject well shall be shown on the plat or located by
notation. The type of each well shall be designated by the following symbols as
described in the Federal Geographic Data Committee (FGDC) Digital Cartographic
Standard for Geologic Map Symbolization:
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Symbols for additional features as required in 4VAC25-150-510, 4VAC25-150-590, and 4VAC25-150-680 should be taken from the FDGC standard where applicable.
E. Plats shall also contain:
1. For a conventional gas and oil or
injection well, the information required in
4VAC25-150-510;
2. For a coalbed methane gas well, the
information required in
4VAC25-150-590; or
3. For a corehole, the information required
in 4VAC25-150-680.
F. Any subsequent application for a new
permit or permit modification shall include an accurate copy of the well plat,
updated as necessary to reflect any changes on the site, newly discovered data
or additional data required since the last plat was submitted. Any revised plat
shall be certified as required in subsection A of this section.
Notes
Statutory Authority: § 45.2-103 of the Code of Virginia.
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