§ 2649. Well Construction and Sampling Requirements.
23 CA ADC § 2649Barclays Official California Code of Regulations
23 CCR § 2649
§ 2649. Well Construction and Sampling Requirements.
(A) Soil shall be described in the geologic log according to the Unified Soil Classification System as presented in Geotechnical Branch Training Manual Numbers 4, 5, and 6, published in January of 1986 (available from the Bureau of Reclamation, Engineering and Research Center, Attention: Code D-7923-A, Post Office Box 25007, Denver, Colorado 80225);
(D) Geologic logs shall be prepared by a professional geologist or civil engineer, who is registered or certified by the State of California and who is experienced in the use of the Unified Soil Classification System. The geologic logs may also be prepared by a technician trained and experienced in the use of the Unified Soil Classification System who is working under the direct supervision of one of the aforementioned professionals, provided that the professional reviews the logs and assumes responsibility for the accuracy and completeness of the logs.
(4) Soil and water sampling equipment and materials used to construct a monitoring well shall be compatible with the stored hazardous substance and shall not donate, capture, mask, or alter the constituents for which analyses will be made. All perforated casings used in the construction of monitoring wells shall be factory perforated;
(c) When installing a vadose zone or ground water monitoring well, the highest anticipated ground water level and existing ground water level shall be determined. Highest anticipated ground water levels shall be determined by reviewing all available water level records for wells within one mile of the site. Existing site ground water levels shall be established either by reviewing all available water level measurements taken within the last 24 months at all existing wells, within 500 feet of the underground storage tank which are perforated in the zone of interest, or by drilling at least one exploratory boring constructed as follows:
(1) Ground water monitoring wells shall extend at least 20 feet below the lowest anticipated ground water level and at least 15 feet below the bottom level of the underground storage tank. However, wells shall not extend through laterally extensive impermeable zones that are below the water table and that are at least five feet thick. In these situations, the well shall be terminated one to two feet into the impermeable zone;
(3) Ground water monitoring well casings shall extend to the bottom of the boring and shall be factory perforated from a point of one foot above the bottom of the casing to an elevation which is either five feet above the highest anticipated ground water level or to within three feet of the bottom of the surface seal or to the ground surface, whichever is the lowest elevation;
(5) Filter packs shall extend at least two feet above the top of the perforated zone except where the top two feet of the filter pack would provide cross-connection between otherwise isolated zones or where the ground surface is less than 10 feet above the highest anticipated ground water level, the local agency may reduce the height of the filter pack so long as the filter pack extends at least to the top of the perforated zone. Under such circumstances, additional precautions shall be taken to prevent plugging of the upper portion of the filter pack by the overlying sealing material;
(7) Ground water monitoring wells shall be sealed in accordance with local permitting requirements or, in their absence, with the Department of Water Resources Standards for Well Construction (Reference Bulletins 74-81 and 74-90 on Water Well Standards are available from the Department of Water Resources, Sacramento);
(10) Pertinent well information including well identification, well type, well depth, well casing diameters (if more than one size is used), and perforated intervals shall be permanently affixed to the interior of the surface security structure and the well identification number and well type shall be affixed on the exterior of the surface security structure.
(1) Borings shall be drilled and sampled using accepted techniques which do not introduce liquids into the boring and which will allow the accurate detection of perched and saturated zone ground water. If this cannot be accomplished using acceptable techniques, the requirement for soil sampling may be waived by the local agency provided, however, that installation of the vadose zone or ground water monitoring system shall be completed; and provided further, that once below the water table, borings need not be advanced using the same method that was used in the vadose zone;
(7) Samples shall be analyzed for one or more of the most persistent constituents that have been stored in the underground storage tank. If the use of the underground storage tank has historically changed, samples shall be analyzed for at least one constituent from each period of use. If the hazardous substance is known to degrade or transform to other constituents in the soil environment, the analysis shall include these degradation and/or transformation constituents;
(8) If hazardous substances known or suspected to have been contained in the underground storage tank are detected at concentrations in excess of background concentrations (background concentrations shall be applicable only if the constituent occurs naturally at the site), further soil analysis is not necessary pursuant to this subsection. The hazardous substance(s) shall be assumed to have originated from the underground storage tank. In this situation, the remainder of the soil samples need not be analyzed pursuant to these regulations and the owner or operator shall comply with subdivision (9) below. A permit shall not be granted unless further detailed investigation clearly establishes that the underground storage tank is not the source of the hazardous substance or that it has been properly repaired since the unauthorized release and that any subsequent unauthorized release from the underground storage tank can be detected despite the presence of the hazardous substance already in the environment; and
(g) The qualitative release detection method shall include consistent sampling and analytical procedures, approved by the local agency, that are designed to ensure that monitoring results provide a reliable indication of the quality of the medium (e.g., ground water, soil-pore liquid, soil vapor, or soil) being monitored. Some acceptable procedures are listed as references in Appendix I, Table C. The owner or operator shall provide a written detailed description, to be specified in the permit and to be maintained as part of the records required under section 2712 of Article 10, of the procedures and techniques for:
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Note: Authority cited: Sections 25299.3 and 25299.7, Health and Safety Code. Reference: Section 25292, Health and Safety Code; and 40 CFR § 280.43.
History
1. New section filed 8-9-91 as an emergency; operative 8-9-91. Text remains in effect uninterrupted pursuant to Health and Safety Code section 25299.7 (Register 92, No. 14).
2. Editorial correction of printing errors in History 1 (Register 92, No. 43).
3. Amendment filed 4-5-94; operative 5-5-94 (Register 94, No. 14).
4. Amendment of subsections (b)(6), (c), (c)(1), (d)(5), (d)(9) and (f)(2) filed 8-27-2018; operative 10-1-2018 (Register 2018, No. 35).
This database is current through 6/7/24 Register 2024, No. 23.
Cal. Admin. Code tit. 23, § 2649, 23 CA ADC § 2649
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