(a) “Private water wells” as used by this section means any water supply developed by any person from any source, other than the Village public water supply, whether intended for human consumption or not.
(b) A base requirement of one acre of land shall be required of a single property owner to permit the installation of a private water well.
(c) No person, after meeting the base requirement, shall drill a private water well within the Village limits without first having obtained a permit therefor from the Village Building Inspector.
(d) Any applicant for such permit shall be required, before such permit is granted, to disclose what type of private water well is to be drilled, the purpose of drilling the well, the depth, insofar as known, that the well is to be drilled, and the location upon the property in which the private water well will be drilled.
(e) The Village Building Inspector will have authority to deny the permit application if these disclosures are not met and further will have discretion to deny or request amendment to the application if the well is located within fifty feet of an existing well; is located within fifty feet of the property line; or is on the same water table as an existing well.
(f) Any person desiring to drill a well for water within the corporate limits of the Village shall make application for a permit to the Building Inspector. All requests for permits must be completed at the time of application. A fee of four hundred dollars ($400.00) per well shall be paid at the time the application is filed. No refund of any part of a permit shall be made to any permit holder for a dry hole or for failure to exercise the privilege to drill upon the site covered by the permit.
(g) All permittees shall use care at a drilling site to keep the area around the drilling site free of mud which will be carried on the public streets by any vehicle or other equipment used at the drilling site. Should any mud be carried on public streets from a drilling site, the permittee shall be required to clean up the streets to the satisfaction of the Village Administrator at no cost to the Village. The Village Administrator shall have authority to request a permittee to clean up the public streets to the satisfaction of the Village Administrator, or failure to take specific steps to reduce mud at a given location as required by the Village Administrator shall be grounds for revocation of a permit and/or forfeiture of the bond posted under subsection (f) hereof.
(h) The permittee shall restore the street, sidewalks and other public places of the Village, damaged or destroyed in the operations of drilling or preparing to drill, to their former conditions immediately upon completion of the drilling.
(1) The permittee shall clear the area of all litter, rubbish, machinery, derricks, buildings, oil or other substances used or allied to the use of drilling or producing or brine disposal operations.
(2) Landscaping may be preserved at the time of abandonment of the well, if feasible and if desired by the property owner.
(i) Drilling operation shall be controlled, by double exhausts or otherwise, so that the noise level of actual drilling does not exceed the noise level of seventy-five decibels in a 500 foot radius during maximum noise production periods. Drilling may occur only between 8:00 a.m. and 7:00 p.m. on wells located within 1,000 feet of a developed residential area.
(j) Should any private water well become dry or nonusable, the land owner shall re- apply for a permit as required by this chapter before drilling a new private water well.
(k) When a well is to be abandoned, it shall be the duty of the permit holder to notify the Village Building Inspector within ten days of such abandonment when the well has been abandoned. All permit holders shall then be required to pull and/or plug a well site on abandonment and remove all above ground appurtenances and return the site to original condition.
(l) Whoever violates or fails to comply with any of the provisions of this chapter is guilty of a minor misdemeanor and shall be fined not more than one hundred dollars ($100.00). A separate offense shall be deemed committed each day during or on which a violation or noncompliance continues.
(Ord. 2702-95. Passed 6-21-95.)