Proposed Text
CHAPTER 600
EASTERN VIRGINIA GROUND WATER GROUNDWATER MANAGEMENT
AREA
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 Groundwater Ground Water
Management Act of 1992 (§ 62.1-254 et seq. of the Code of Virginia).
"Area" means the Eastern Virginia Groundwater Management Area.
"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 area.
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 Groundwater Management Area.
B. The 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.
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.