§ 12.5-12. Definitions.

For the purposes of this article, unless the context otherwise requires:

Applicant: Any person, including owner, lessor, occupant or their authorized representative, who has applied for a permit to install a regulated well.

Cathodic protection well: Any artificial excavation constructed by any method for the purpose of installing equipment or facilities for the protection electrically of metallic equipment in contact with the ground.

Completion operation: Any of the following work conducted after artificial excavation:

(1)

Placement of a well casing;

(2)

Gravel packing;

(3)

Sealing;

(4)

Perforation of a well casing; or

(5)

Any other work listed on a permit issued pursuant to this article as being a required part of a completion operation.

Contamination: Any alteration of waters by waste, saltwater intrusion or other material to a degree which creates a hazard to the public health through actual or potential poisoning or through an actual or potential spreading of disease.

Department: The Jefferson Parish Department of Public Works.

To destroy a well: To fill it (including both interior and annular spaces if the well is cased) completely in such a manner that it will not produce water or act as a conduit for the interchange of water between any water-bearing formations penetrated.

Director: The director of the Jefferson Parish Department of Public Works or his or her duly authorized representative.

Engineering test hole: An uncased excavation used to determine the engineering or geological properties of subsurface materials by seismic investigation, direct observation or any other means.

To inspect a well: To personally witness, record and certify work pursuant to a condition or conditions of a valid permit.

To modify or to repair a well: To replace its casing in a manner which involves removal or partial removal of the old casing, to reperforate its casing, or to change the depth of the well.

Monitor well: A cased or uncased well used exclusively for monitoring or sampling the conditions of a water-bearing aquifer, such as water pressure, depth, movement or quality.

Parish inspector: A parish employee authorized by the director.

Permittee: Includes, but is not limited to, a person that has been granted a permit to install and/or operate a well regulated by this article.

Person: Any individual, his heirs, executors, administrators or assigns, and includes a firm, partnership, or corporation, its or their successors or assigns. Singular includes plural; male includes female. "Person" shall include the owner or operator of the site which is conducting groundwater monitoring.

Pollution: An alteration of waters by waste, saltwater intrusion or other material to a degree which adversely affects either the suitability of such waters for beneficial uses or the facilities employed in conjunction with such beneficial uses.

Well: Includes any well or monitoring device regulated by this article.

(Ord. No. 18374, § 2, 10-2-91)