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Code of Virginia
Title 45.1. Mines and Mining
Chapter 22.1. The Virginia Gas and Oil Act
3/4/2021

§ 45.1-361.44. Replacement of water supply.

If any water supply of a surface owner who obtains all or part of his supply of water for domestic use from a water well has been materially affected by contamination or partial or complete interruption proximately resulting from a gas well operation within 1,320 feet of the water well, the operator of such gas well shall promptly provide a replacement water supply which shall be capable of meeting the uses such water supply met prior to the contamination or partial or complete interruption.

1998, c. 227; 2009, c. 293; 2017, c. 17.

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