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A Natural Resources Department official says some high-capacity well work doesn’t need new permits.  Adam Freihoefer tells Brownfield certain repairs are allowed to existing wells.  “If a new well needs to be drilled, that would require a new application & a new $500-dollar fee to the department, currently.  If reconstruction will do and you can just replace the screen for example, then there’s no fee needed and no high-capacity well application needed.”

Freihoefer says replacing the well casing in the same hole is considered a new well, and permits are required.

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