DON'T LISTEN TO SAM JOE QUEEN - PRIVATE WELL REGULATION IS A REAL POSIBILITY IN NC | News
Dem. San Joe Queen - Madison County
John Lock Foundation- Despite claims to the contrary, North Carolina’s new drought management bill does not expressly prohibit the regulation of water use from private wells.
In fact, the bill likely authorizes regulation of water use from private wells.
The legislation originally had language expressly allowing regulation, but it was removed. Removal does not mean, however, that regulation is prohibited.
The bill is filled with unclear and misleading language.
For example, according to the law, the state “shall approve” local regulation plans if, in part, the plan contains no regulation of “private drinking water wells.” While that may sound good, it presents two big problems: First, the law does not say the state may only approve a local regulation plan if there are no such regulations — in other words, the state still could approve plans with such regulations. Second, that provision applies only to wells that are built for drinking purposes. If the well is built for landscaping, for instance, it clearly could be regulated.
Three days before final passage of the bill, it contained express language prohibiting state and local regulation of water use from private wells — this language was quietly removed, however, and now state and local regulation is very possible.
The legislature could easily have prohibited regulation of water use from private wells if that is what legislators wanted to do. There is a reason why the bill contains no clear prohibition — legislators want the possibility of regulation.
The legislature should amend the drought-management bill at the start of the next legislative session and make it clear that water use from private wells will not be subject to state or local regulation.
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