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CHAPTER 600
DESIGNATED GROUND WATER GROUNDWATER MANAGEMENT AREAS
9VAC25-600-10. Definitions.
The following words and terms, when used in this chapter shall have the following meaning, unless the context clearly indicates otherwise:
"Act" means the Ground water Ground Water
Management Act of 1992 (ยง 62.1-254 et seq. of the Code of Virginia).
"Board" means the State Water Control Board.
"Ground water "Groundwater management
area" means a geographically defined ground water groundwater
area in which the board has deemed the levels, supply or quality of ground
water groundwater to be adverse to public welfare, health and
safety.
"Ground water" "Groundwater"
means any water, except capillary moisture, beneath the land surface in the
zone of saturation or beneath the bed of any stream, lake, reservoir or other
body of surface water wholly or partially within the boundaries of this
Commonwealth, whatever may be the subsurface geologic structure in which
such water stands, flows, percolates or otherwise occurs.
9VAC25-600-20. Declaration of ground water groundwater
management areas.
A. The board hereby orders the declaration of the eastern part
of Virginia as a ground water groundwater management area. This
area shall be known as the Eastern Virginia [ Ground Water Groundwater ]
Management Area. This area encompasses the counties of Charles City, Essex,
Gloucester, Isle of Wight, James City, King George, King and Queen,
King William, Lancaster, Mathews, Middlesex, New Kent, Northumberland,
Prince George, Richmond, Southampton, Surry, Sussex, Westmoreland,
and York; the areas of Arlington, Caroline, Chesterfield, Fairfax,
Hanover, and Henrico, Prince William, Spotsylvania, and Stafford
counties east of Interstate 95; and the cities of Chesapeake, Franklin,
Hampton, Hopewell, Newport News, Norfolk, Poquoson, Portsmouth, Suffolk,
Virginia Beach, and Williamsburg.
B. The board hereby orders the declaration of the Eastern
Shore of Virginia as a [ ground water groundwater ]
management area. This area shall be known as the Eastern Shore [ Ground
Water Groundwater ] Management Area. The area encompasses the
counties of Accomack and Northampton.
C. All aquifers located between the land surface and basement rock within the geographic area defined will be included in the area and will be subject to the corrective controls set forth in Act.