Cooperating under NEPA
Description:
White Pine Waterpower, LLC is proposing to drill three monitoring and two test wells to be followed a week later by two tests. The first, an eight-hour step test would estimate each test well’s discharge rate and determine the optimal pumping rate for the second test. The second, a 72-hour constant rate test would estimate the wells’ hydrogeologic parameters, identify hydraulic boundaries, and approximate operating conditions of the proposed production wells. The constant rate test would pump approximately 950,000 gallons of water from each test well. The water would be piped to a series of sprinklers for dispersal. Dispersal locations would be rotated to limit soil saturation and control surface water runoff. The three monitoring wells would track groundwater response to pumping. Testing would take about nine days at each test well after which the drill pads would be restored and reclaimed.
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