A. The operator of a brine disposal well shall, on a weekly basis, monitor and record the injection pressure, injection rate, and cumulative volume of fluids injected. The operator shall report this data monthly to the city engineer unless the city engineer informs the operators in writing that said reports may be submitted on a less frequent basis. The data shall be submitted in a form approved by the city engineer.
B. Operators of brine disposal injection wells shall file an annual monitoring report summarizing the data of the monitoring required in subsection (A) of this section, on or before March 1 of the year for the previous calendar year.
C. The operator of a secondary recovery injection well shall, on a monthly basis, monitor and record the injection pressure, injection rate, and cumulative volume of the fluid injected. An operator of a secondary recovery injection well may conduct the monitoring and recording, required by this section, on a field or project basis by manifold monitoring, rather than on an individual well basis, if more than one secondary recovery injection well operates with a single manifold, and if the operator demonstrates that manifold monitoring is comparable to individual well monitoring. The operator shall report the data annually to the city engineer in a form approved by the city engineer, on or before March 1 of each year for the previous calendar year.
D. The operators of an injection well shall not operate an injection well unless the annual report is filed by March 1 for the previous year, and injection may not continue after failure to file on March 1 until the required report is submitted and written approval for resumed injection is received from the city engineer.
E. All injection well records shall be retained by the operator for a period of three years.
F. An operator of an injection well shall verbally notify the city engineer, of any pressure test failure, significant pressure changes, or other evidence of a leak in an injection well, within twenty-four hours of the test failure, pressure change or evidence of a leak. If there is evidence that an injection well is not, or may not be, directing the injected fluid into the permitted injection strata, the operator shall immediately cease injection.
G. An operator shall submit written notice of the pressure test failure or other evidence of a leak to the city engineer, within five days of the occurrence. If injection has ceased pursuant to subsection (F) above, an operator shall not resume injection until the operator has tested or repaired the well, or both.
H. Nothing contained in this section shall be construed to permit the drilling of a brine disposal well, or conversion of an existing well into a brine disposal well, after December 15, 2003.
I. Failure to file any of the reports required by this section shall be an offense. Operation of a well contrary to the terms of this section shall be an offense. For each day that a well is operated in violation of any of the terms of this section it shall be a separate offense punishable by a maximum fine of five hundred dollars per day. (Ord. 449 (part), 2003)