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SECTION 14. WASTE, WASTE PREVENTION, AND BENEFICIAL USE/PURPOSE
RULE 14.1 WASTE MEANS ANY ONE OR MORE OF THE FOLLOWING:
(a) Withdrawal of groundwater from a groundwater reservoir at a rate and in an amount that causes or threatens to cause intrusion into the reservoir of water unsuitable for agricultural, gardening, domestic, or stock raising purposes;
(b) The flowing or producing of wells from a groundwater reservoir if the water produced is not used for a beneficial purpose;
(c) Escape of groundwater from a groundwater reservoir to any other reservoir or geologic strata that does not contain groundwater;
(d) Pollution or harmful alteration of groundwater in a groundwater reservoir by saltwater or by other deleterious matter admitted from another stratum or from the surface of the ground;
(e) Willfully or negligently causing, suffering, or allowing groundwater to escape into any river, creek, natural watercourse, depression, lake, reservoir, dam, sewer, street, highway, road, or road ditch, or onto any land other than that of the owner of the well unless such discharge is authorized by permit, rule, or order issued by the commission under Chapter 26;
(f) Groundwater pumped for irrigation that escapes as irrigation tailwater onto land other than that of the owner of the well unless permission has been granted by the occupant of the land receiving the discharge; or
(g) For water produced from an artesian well, “waste” has the meaning assigned by Section 11.205.
RULE 14.2 WASTE PREVENTION:
(a) Groundwater shall not be produced within, or used within or without the District, in such a manner as to constitute waste as defined in Rule 14.1 hereof.
(b) No person shall pollute or harmfully alter the character of the groundwater reservoir of the District by means of salt water or other deleterious matter admitted from some other stratum or strata from the surface of the ground.
(a) No person shall commit waste as that term is defined in Rule 1.1(dd).
RULE 14.3 CATEGORIES OF BENEFICIAL USE OR BENEFICIAL PURPOSE:
(a) agricultural, gardening, domestic, stock raising, municipal, mining, manufacturing, industrial, commercial, recreational, or pleasure purposes;
(b) exploring for, producing, handling, or treating oil, gas, sulphur, or other minerals; or
(c) any other purpose that is useful and beneficial to the user.
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