No permit shall be issued for the construction of a local small water system unless and until compliance with the following water source requirements is established:
(A) For each connection to a local small water system where the proposed source of water is a well, a source capacity of three gallons per minute must be sustained during a 24-hour period of continuous pumping. This quantity test shall include the rate of water discharged, static water level, drawdown, sustained pumping level and recovery rate.
(B) Tests carried out to determine source capacity must be performed by either a person holding a C-57 or C-61 state contractors license or a person who is registered by the State of California as an engineer, an environmental health specialist or an engineering geologist and who is deemed qualified by experience by the Health Officer to perform the tests.
(C) For a spring or horizontal well:
(1) For each connection to a spring or horizontal well, a continuous yield of at least one gallon per minute during the months of August through October. The yield requirements of this division may not be satisfied by tests conducted during the months of November through July.
(2) Notwithstanding the provisions of division (A) of this section, the Board of Supervisors may, upon finding of drought or other unusual weather conditions of limited duration, extend or redefine by resolution the period of time defined in division (C)(1) above for purposes of undertaking the required testing to establish compliance with the yield requirements of this division. Any resolution adopted pursuant to this division shall continue in effect no longer than December 31 of the calendar year in which the resolution was first adopted.
(D) The applicant must notify the Health Officer at least 24 hours before the beginning of any pump test which is intended to establish source capacity.
(1966 Code, § 8.1-7) (Ord. 564, § 1.7)