[Amended 12-7-1983]
The following special regulations shall govern the construction, repair and abandonment of water wells and the installation and repair of pumps and pumping equipment in the Town of Marlborough.
A. 
"Storage depth" shall pertain to drilled wells only and will be defined as that quantity of water, measured in feet of well, taken from the static water level down to the level of the pump. Should the pump not be the submersible type, the storage depth will be taken from the static water level down to the pump's point of suction intake.
B. 
A drilled well shall have a storage depth of no less than 100 feet or a yield, as determined from a four-hour yield test, of no less than 1 1/2 gallons per minute (gpm).
C. 
Drilled wells at single-family dwellings.
(1) 
For a drilled well at a single-family dwelling, the following minimum storage depths, as defined in Subsection A, must be met for the yields indicated below:
Yield
(gpm)
Storage Depth
(feet)
1 1/2
180
2
160
2 1/2
140
3
120
3 1/2
100 minimum
(2) 
The diameter of a drilled well shall be six inches.
D. 
For individual wells at multifamily dwellings, the storage and yield must be approved by the Director of Health.
E. 
No pump shall be set within 10 feet of the bottom of the well.
F. 
Pressure tanks for individual home installations shall have a minimum capacity of 42 gallons, though a greater capacity is desirable.
G. 
Any owner or lessee of land upon which there is located on abandoned dug well must fill the same with suitable fill as required by the Director of Health or his authorized representative. Abandoned wells may not be used for the disposal of sewage or wastes.
H. 
No water well of any type located within the area bordered easterly by Quinn Road, northwesterly by Cattle Lot Brook, westerly by the Marlborough-East Hampton Town Line and southerly by property owned by the Town of Marlborough shall be used for human consumption without first obtaining a well use permit from the Department of Health. Said well use permit shall be signed by the Town Sanitarian or Director of Health, which permit shall only be issued after certification by the State of Connecticut or other authority acceptable to the Department of Health that the raw water quality from said well conforms to the standards of the State of Connecticut, Department of Health Services, as set forth in the Regulations of Connecticut State Agencies, Section 19-13-B102, as amended.
Any person violating this article shall be subject to the fines and other administrative requirements of this chapter as well as civil injunctive relief to abate the violation.
This article shall apply to all wells located or first used after the effective date of this article (December 7, 1983).