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fore any legal diversion of water can be made for said well, the appropriator must make application to the state engineer and obtain a permit to appropriate, water. (Sec. 6). In such areas the well driller can proceed to drill without the owner of the property having a permit to appropriate water, but in all cases the well driller must furnish a well log on the prescribed form to the state engineer. 5. ho application for a permit to appropriate water for domestic purposes is necessary where the draught does not exceed two gallons per minute and the water so developed is not from an artesian well in a designated basin. In all cases, the well driller shall furnish logs of such wells. 6. Wells drilled into or through artesian aquifers or through material which will cave must be cased with sound casing material. 7 . In artesian wells that are not gravel packed there must be a satisfactory seal between the outside of the casing and the confining material so as to prevent upward leakage. In artesian wells the perforations must not extend above the confining material so that there will be no leakage from inside the casing when the well is shut off. 8. In a gravel packed well penetrating an artesian aquifer, the gravel must not be placed above the confining strata. Above the gravel the well must be cemented in order to prevent escape of * .. V . -5-
