Code of Virginia § 45.2-1649. Replacement of water supply.
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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 that shall be capable of meeting the uses such water supply met prior to the contamination or partial or complete interruption.
1998, c. 227 , § 45.1-361.44; 2009, c. 293 ; 2017, c. 17 ; 2021, Sp. Sess. I, c. 387 .