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Wuhan Groundwater Management Approach

Original Language Title: 武汉市地下水管理办法

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(Summit No. 47th ordinary meeting of the Government of the Republic of Viet Nam of 14 November 2006 to consider the adoption of Decree No. 174 of 21 December 2006 No. 138 of the Order of the People's Government of Vilhan City of 21 December 2006 for publication of implementation effective 1 February 2007)

Article 1, in order to enhance the management of groundwater, to develop, utilize and protect groundwater, to prevent water pollution and geological disasters, and to develop this approach in line with the provisions of the laws, regulations and regulations such as the Water Act of the People's Republic of China, the Water Consequences and Water Resources Regulations.
Article 2. This approach applies to the development, use, protection and related management of groundwater within the city's administration.
The approach refers to the dynamic water that can be answered by the year of the year in which the water is stored in underground aquifers and is directly leading.
Article 3 groundwater management should be guided by the principles of comprehensive planning, sound development, scientific use, strict protection, and efficiency, and fully realize the integrated benefits of groundwater.
Article IV governs the management of groundwater throughout the city.
Regional water administration authorities are responsible for the management of groundwater within the present administration. The management of groundwater within the framework of the Vilhan Economic Technology Development Zone, the new technology development area of the Lake Vilhan Orientale Lake and the ecological tourist landscape in the city of Oriental Lake is entrusted by the municipal water administration authorities with specific responsibility.
The relevant branches of the Government are responsible for the management of groundwater in accordance with their respective responsibilities.
Article 5 Obligations for the development, use of groundwater units and personal savings and protection of groundwater.
The units and individuals that have made significant achievements in the protection of groundwater and its related management work are recognized and rewarded by the municipalities, the people of the region.
Article 6. The municipal water administration authorities should prepare protection plans for the use of groundwater throughout the city, in accordance with city-wide planning for economic and social development and integrated water resources planning, which are coordinated by urban planning administrative authorities, and incorporated into urban overall planning after the consideration by the Committee on Regional Planning of Vavhan Cities and the approval of the Government of the city.
Article 7. The municipal water administration authorities shall delineate the restricted mining area within the city's administrative area, prohibiting the mining area, subject to approval by the Government of the people of the province, in accordance with the procedure.
In delineating groundwater-limited mining areas in geological disaster-prone areas and prohibiting mining areas, the municipal water administration authorities should seek the views of the municipal land resource management.
There shall be no new underground water engineering in the area of groundwater prohibiting mining and limiting mining. Access to water already in the mining area should be closed at a time limit; water supplies already in the mining area should be cut by year.
Article 8. The development and use of groundwater must be in line with the conservation planning for the use of groundwater throughout the city, not exceeding the total amount of underground mining and should be in line with the requirements of the overall base and the water floor.
The total amount of underground water can be extracted throughout the city, the overall base of the wells and the water floor, as determined by the municipal water administration authorities.
Article 9 prohibits the use of groundwater by one of the following conditions in areas other than the mining area:
(i) When urban public water management networks meet water needs, construction projects are used for water-dependent facilities;
(ii) Areas where groundwater has been severely contaminated;
(iii) The possibility of causing significant damage to the use of functions in water functional areas;
(iv) There is no reasonable reason for accessing water and releasing water;
(v) The state of geological hydrology is not appropriate to access groundwater;
(vi) Laws, regulations prohibit other conditions of access to groundwater.
Article 10 units and individuals with access to groundwater (hereinafter referred to as water-takeholders) should submit a water licence application to the water administration authorities for the processing of water licences and payment of water resources under the law.
In one of the following cases, there is no need to apply for access to water licences and to license water:
(i) The use of groundwater, such as family life and sporadic nutrients, and the use of livestock in the community, with water consumption below 1,500 cubic metres per year;
(ii) In order to secure construction safety and production safety in underground areas, such as mine wells, the need for temporary emergency (option) groundwater access;
(iii) Access to groundwater for temporary emergency response to public safety or public interest;
(iv) The need for temporary response to groundwater for drought and the preservation of ecology and the environment.
Access to water under subparagraphs (ii), (iii) of the previous paragraph shall be reported to the district water administration authorities; the water provided in subparagraph (iv) shall be agreed by the territorial water administration authorities.
Article 11. Access to water licences for the following 300,000 cubic metres of groundwater shall be subject to approval by the territorial water administration authorities; applications for water authorizations for more than 300,000 cubic metres of groundwater (including 300,000 cubic metres) for the year are submitted for approval by the municipal water administration authorities; water licences for more than 700,000 cubic metres of groundwater (700,000 cubic metres) for the year, subject to approval by the provincial water authorities after the municipal water administration review.
The conditions, procedures and deadlines for accessing water permits are implemented in accordance with the provisions of the Regulations on the Applicability of Water and Water Resources.
Article 12 is also required to submit the following materials, in addition to the material provided in the Regulations on Access to Water and Water Resources, for the use of groundwater heat pumps systems, which require access to groundwater.
(i) Report on hydrogeological surveys at the project site;
(ii) A water test and a return test report;
(iii) The report of the surfacewater accessories of the project;
(iv) Report on groundwater quality at the project site.
Hydroge geological survey reports, pumped water tests and re-incruit testing reports, groundwater accessories and groundwater water quality reports should be prepared by units with corresponding qualifications.
The following information shall be communicated to the approving authority upon the approval of the approving authority:
(i) Publing maps in the wells area;
(ii) The physical bathymetry, wells and cholera maps of the single wells;
(iii) Test water and water quality testing reports for single wells;
(iv) The availability and measurement of water equipment;
(v) Other information provided by the municipal water administration authorities.
The experience is qualified and is subject to the approval authority's nuclear access to water.
Article XIV uses groundwater in the shores, Hani and (the author's note: the left side is stoned, the right-to-kook is the job, Hanpositive, Vuk, Xi, Huntland, the Vavhan Economic Technology Development Zone, the development area of new technologies in the Lake War East Lake and the ecological tourism landscape in the city of Oriental Lake.
Article 15. The water administration authorities should strengthen monitoring management of groundwater pumps and groundwater quality, strengthen the construction and management of groundwater monitoring sites, carry out dynamic monitoring of groundwater water quality, water levels, and implement real-time online monitoring to prevent water depletion and water pollution.
The water administration authorities should establish a sound enforcement system and oversight management system that oversees the use of groundwater by water users in accordance with the law, and will monitor the inspection and the processing of the results and record them and publicize society.
Article 16 should strengthen the oversight management of construction works involving access to groundwater and enhance coordination with the water administration authorities in order to facilitate the management of groundwater.
Land resources management should strengthen monitoring of the geological environment in complex areas of geological conditions and prevent geological disasters arising from inappropriate access to groundwater.
Article 17
(i) Establish sound water access archives and water management systems;
(ii) In accordance with national technical standards, the establishment of quality-technical monitoring units to determine eligible water measurement facilities, ensure that measurement facilities operate properly, shall not undermine the accuracy of measurements, the use of metrics;
(iii) Statement of water access according to the provisions;
(iv) Regular work to monitor groundwater and water quality.
Article 18
(i) To take reliable measures to ensure that all of the replacement groundwater is returned to the same aquifer and that it does not cause contamination of groundwater;
(ii) The water supply management and the indictability shall not be connected to the municipal pipeline;
(iii) The creation of wells should avoid contaminated ground and ground floors, and water sampling and monitoring points should be established in the light of wells and backbones;
(iv) After the operation of the system, regular monitoring should be carried out of the quantity of water drawn, backbone and its water quality, and the monitoring results are presented to the water administration authorities.
Article 19 shall be communicated to the water administration authorities by 31 December of each year and to the next year's recommendations on access to water, as well as to the application form and the reasonable analysis of the water plan.
Article 20: The following shall be reviewed by the water administration authorities after receipt of the annual water access plan of the water recipient:
(i) It is in compliance with the provisions of the water licence;
(ii) Whether water-saving measures are planned to be implemented;
(iii) Whether the use of water for the products of the unit exceeds the quantity of water.
The water administration authorities should provide water-take plans for the next year, within 10 working days from the date of receipt of the water access scheme for water-dependent households.
Article 21, when the water is harvested in the water wells, the water scarcity, the sharp fall in water or the occurrence of an unusual situation, such as the collapse of wells, the failure of measurement devices, should immediately cease the water harvest, take the appropriate protection measures and report on the water administration authorities in a timely manner.
Article 2, paragraph 2, has stopped the water well for two years and the watertakers should envelope water wells in accordance with technical norms and write their water licence by the ex-approval body.
The watertakers refuse to fill the water wells, who are loaded by the water administration authorities, and the costs are borne by the watertakers.
As a result of force majeure or major technological transformations, water access may be retained with the consent of the original approval body.
Article 23 builds underground works and requires the evacuation of dry water, and construction units should take effective measures to prevent the depletion of water sources or the collapse of the ground; and construction units should be compensated by law as a result of dry drainage, water depletion or land degradation.
The construction unit refused to take remedial measures, and the water administration was replaced by the construction unit.
Article 24 prohibits the release, dumping of toxic, hazardous wastewater and pyrethroids, of beds, pitfalls, effluents and solvents.
Article 25, in violation of the provisions of this approach relating to access to water permits, is sanctioned by the water administration authorities in accordance with the provisions of the Water Act of the People's Republic of China, the Water Consequence and Water Resources Regulations.
The water-dependent damage measure is accurate, the use of measurements is ill-treated by the quality technical supervision sector in accordance with the relevant laws, regulations, such as the People's Republic of China Measuring Act.
In violation of this approach, groundwater contamination is addressed by the environmental sector in accordance with the relevant legal provisions such as the Water Pollution Control Act of the People's Republic of China.
Article 26 The water administration authorities and their staff are in one of the following conditions in the management of groundwater, which is being restructured by their superior administrative organs or by an inspection authority, and administrative disposition of the directly responsible supervisors and other direct responsibilities is provided by law;
(i) For applicants who do not meet the statutory conditions to obtain a licence for water, signify the consent of the review, or for the applicant in accordance with the statutory conditions, the granting of a licence for water and the signing of a review agreement;
(ii) In violation of the provision of water access plans;
(iii) To use job facilitation requests, receipt of property from other persons or other interests;
(iv) Failure to perform oversight duties or to find that the offence is not investigated, causing serious consequences;
(v) Other acts of negligence, abuse of authority, favouring private fraud.
Article 27 uses groundwater related to the management of mineral resources should also be subject to the provisions of the mineral resource management law, legislation and regulations.
The twenty-eighth approach started on 1 February 2007.