Well Construction Regulations (N.S. Reg. 382/2007).

The present Regulations enact the Environment Act. The Regulations lay down comprehensive provisions concerning the location, construction, maintenance and abandonment of wells. The text contains at the outset a definition clause relating to various terms employed therein, such as “ANSI” (American National Standards Institute), “annular space”, “aquifer”, “AWWA” (American Water Works Associations), “certificate holder”, “contamination”, “drilled well”, “flowing well”, “dug well”, “innovative well”, “pumping equipment”, “well digger”, “well driller”, etc. The text – consisting of 49 sections – deals with the following aspects: reference to codes and standards, certificates of qualification, well digger and well driller machinery identification, application for certificate of qualification, financial security for certificate holder, location of wells, source of potential contamination, well construction and materials, drilling, constructing, repairing and modifying drilled wells.