7 Del. Admin. Code § 7302-2.0
"Agricultural Well" means a well used for watering livestock, poultry, and for aquaculture uses; or solely for watering household yards and gardens; or for other purposes related to farming in general but not including the irrigation of lands or crops. Water is not used for human consumption or to service a dwelling.
"Application Fee" means the fee that must be submitted with an application for a license in one of the categories of these regulations.
"Board" means the Water Well Licensing Board.
"Construction of Wells" means all acts necessary to complete a well from the initial penetration or excavation of the ground through development, equipment installation, and disinfection. Set-up of construction equipment before actual penetration or excavation is not considered part of construction.
"Department" means the Department of Natural Resources and Environmental Control.
"Dewatering" means a well used to temporarily remove ground water during the construction of footings, sewer lines, building foundations, elevator shafts, etc.
"Geotechnical Well" means a well constructed for monitoring water quality, measuring water levels, for removing a product mixed with or adjacent to groundwater or for injecting air or other product(s) into the groundwater with the intent to remediate contamination. Geotechnical wells are typically classified as observation, monitor, recovery or injection wells.
"Installation" means the placement of pumps, and/or pumping equipment in and for wells; and the removal of pumps and related equipment in and for wells for repair, service or the reinforcement thereof.
"Irrigation Well" means a well that is used for the watering of lands or crops other than household lawns and gardens.
"License Fees" means the fee for licensing water well contractors, pump installer contractors, well drillers, well drivers, and pump installers.
"Person" means any individual, firm, association, organization, partnership, business, trust, corporation, company, contractor, supplier, installer, user, or owner, or any Federal, State or local governmental agency or public district or any officer or employee thereof.
"Pumps and/or Pumping Equipment" means any equipment or material(s) utilized or intended for use in withdrawing or obtaining ground water or other fluids from wells.
"Pump Installer Contractor" means any person licensed by the State of Delaware to engage in the business of contracting for the installation, modification, or repair of water well pumps and related equipment.
"Pump Installer" means any person licensed by the State of Delaware to act in responsible charge of all on-site work in the installation, maintenance, and repair of pumps and related equipment in and for wells.
"Repair of Wells" means the repair or rehabilitation of a well to restore the original yield to the best extent possible, providing the location and physical dimensions of the well are not changed.
"Secretary" means the Secretary of the Department of Natural Resources and Environmental Control or his or her duly authorized designee.
"Test Boring and Coring" means the removal and collection of soil samples from the earth by means of augers, core-barrels, spoons, wash casing and bailers for the purpose of obtaining geologic and hydrologic information.
"Well" means any excavation that is drilled, cored, bored, washed, driven, dug, jetted, or otherwise constructed when the intended use of such excavation is for the location, testing, acquisition, artificial recharge or injection of fluids or gases, or to otherwise make use of groundwater and where the depth is greater than the diameter or width. For the purpose of these regulations this definition does not include geotechnical test; soil, telephone, and construction piling borings; fence posts or test pits. Horizontal closed loop heat pump circulation systems constructed within twenty (20) feet of the ground surface are not considered wells.
"Water Well Contractor" means any person engaged in the business of contracting for the construction of water wells, and/or the installation of pumping equipment in or for wells.
"Well Driller" means any person in responsible charge of all on-site work relating to the drilling, boring, coring, driving, digging, construction, installation, removal or repair of a well.
"Well Driver" means any person in responsible charge for all on-site work relating to the driving, construction, installation, removal or repair of driven wells, or the installation modification or repair of water well pumps and related equipment ordinarily used in driven wells.
7 Del. Admin. Code § 7302-2.0