The receipt or delivery of any type of water for direct use by customers, for use within a municipal water service area, or to or from another entity, including underground and groundwater savings facility storage and annual or long-term credit recovery. Water movements also include deliveries and receipts from other entities that are not required to file an annual water withdrawal and use report, such as the Central Arizona Water Conservation District, local or regional wastewater treatment plants owned by a county or other entity, and Indian reservations.

The Arizona Department of Environmental Quality (ADEQ) monitors, reports, and protects Arizona’s groundwater quality. Water quality information can be obtained from ADEQ’s Water Quality Division Website. For information regarding testing the water quality of a private well, suggested testing schedules, and labs that test water quality, visit the Arizona Department of Health Services (ADHS).

This is a location included in the State of Arizona’s "Superfund" program, which investigates sites that are contaminated with hazardous substances. The Superfund program develops remedial actions that assure the protection of public health and welfare and the environment. The WQARF program is administered by ADEQ. It is authorized by A.R.S. § 49-282.

"Water that cannot reasonably be used directly" means water that the storer cannot reasonably put to a direct use during the calendar year. See section 45-802.01(23) for more information.

For the calendar year in question, all of the following areas within a non-residential facility: a) Any area of land that is planted primarily with plants not listed in ADWR’s Low Water Use/Drought Tolerant Plant List for TAMA and watered with a permanent water application system, except any area of land that is watered exclusively with direct use reclaimed water or reclaimed water recovered within the area of impact; b) The total water surface area of all bodies of water within the facility, except bodies of water used primarily for swimming purposes, bodies of water filled and refilled exclusively with direct use reclaimed water or reclaimed water recovered within the area of impact, and bodies of water allowed under an interim water use permit pursuant to A.R.S. § 45-133 if the bodies of water will be filled and refilled exclusively with direct use reclaimed water or reclaimed water recovered within the area of impact after the permit expires.

A man-made opening in the earth through which water may be withdrawn or obtained from beneath the surface of the earth except as provided in section 45-591.01. A.R.S. § 45-402 (43).

Wells drilled for oil, gas or helium pursuant to the provisions of title 27 are not wells as defined by this chapter. A.R.S. § 45-591.01.

A well driller report must be filed by the well driller within 30 days of the completion of a well and must describe the "as built" well construction information and provide a well log of the well. The well driller report and well log are required by A.R.S. § 45-600.

The construction or repair of a well, or the modification, except for abandonment, of a well, regardless of whether compensation is involved, including any deepening or additional perforating, any addition of casing or change to existing casing construction, and any other change in well construction not normally associated with well maintenance, pump replacement, or pump repair. A.A.C. R12-15-801(29).

This is an individual, public or private corporation, partnership, firm, association, or any other public or private organization or enterprise that holds a well driller’s license pursuant to A.R.S. § 45-595(B). A.A.C. R12-15-801(30). A list of licensed well drillers can be found here.

Wells 55 has 23 primary water use types to describe the first water use listed for each well. To make analysis and visualization of the over 218,000 wells easier, these primary water use types have been grouped as follows. 1. The Agriculture or Stock group consists of Irrigation and Stock primary water uses. 2. The Domestic group consists only of the the Domesitc water use type. 3. Dewatering, Drainage and Remediation make up the group of the same name. 4. Industrial consists of Industrial Commericial and Mining. 5. Monitoring and Test wells are in the group of the same name. 6. The Municipal Group consists of Municipal Uses, Subdivision, and Utilitly (Water Co). 7. The No Code group includes No Use Code on Noi, No Water Use, None listed and Unknown. Other-Mineral Explore, Other-Production, Recreation and Reserved compose the Other group, and 8. Recovery is the final group.

These are rules that govern the location of new wells and replacement wells in new locations in Active Management Areas to prevent unreasonably increasing damage to surrounding land or other water users from the concentration of wells. Well spacing and well impact rules are authorized pursuant to A.R.S. § 45-598(A) and are set forth in A.A.C. R12-15 1301 through R12-15-1307.

The Wells 55 database code table for well types has 27 codes. In order to make some types of analysis and data visualizations easier, the concept of Well Type Groups was created. The groups consists of the following specific well types listed here: 1. Exempt: Exempt, Exempt - Domestic Stock, Exempt - Non-Domestic. 2. Non-exempt: Non-Exempt Replacemet Well in New Location, Non-Exempt Service, Non-Exempt Sump Pump, Trench or Sand Points, and Non-Exempt Withdrawal Permit. 3. Special: all well types starting with "Spcl" and including Cathodic Protection, Exploration, Geotechnical, Geothermal Heat Pump, Grounding, Mineral Exploration, Other, and Vadose Zone for Recharge. 4. Environemtal: all well types starting with "Env" and including Vadose Zone, Injection, Monitor, Monitor or Piezometer, Soil Vapor Extraction/Monitoring, and Sparging (Air, Ozone, As/Sve). 5. No Type Given: No Well Type.