Well Construction permitting data shows locational information about some of the wells permitted by the District. The Water Resources Act of 1972 gave the Northwest Florida Water Management District the responsibility to protect, conserve and manage the ground waters in northwest Florida from Escambia County to western Jefferson County. As required by law, the District initiated regulation of the construction, repair and abandonment of all water wells. Those regulations, found in Chapter 40A-3, Florida Administrative Code (www.nwfwmd.state.fl.us/permits/rules/ch40A3.pdf), require permits for all wells, establish minimum well construction standards and conduct inspections and enforcement. Spatial distribution of wells help permitting personnel determine whether the construction of proposed well will be according to the Florida Statutes. For example, whether it will adversely affect the ground/surface water resources or will be close to a ground water contamination area. The spatial data provided may only represent a small fraction of the existing wells. The data represents the records for well construction/repair/abandonment permitted beginning in the year 1976 so does not contain data on wells constructed prior to 1976. The location information may have been provided by the well contractor or owner and may not have been verified by the District. Please keep these limitations in mind when using the data.
Purpose of the data is to regulate the distribution and volume of water to conserve and assure supply in relation to demand for the present and the future. Construction, repair and proper abandonment of water wells, both public and private, and the quantities of water that may be extracted, are regulated by the Water Management Districts. The primary purpose of this data is to assist the District with evaluation of permits issued under Part II of Chapter 373 of the Florida Statutes(Consumptive Use Permitting) and under Part III of Chapter 373, Florida Statutes (Well Construction Permitting).
The Northwest Florida Water Management District (NWFWMD or District) stretches from the St. Marks River Basin in Jefferson County to the Perdido River in Escambia County. The District is one of five water management districts in Florida created by the Water Resources Act of 1972. The District has worked for decades to protect and manage water resources in a sustainable manner for the continued welfare of people and natural systems across its 16-county region. It serves Bay, Calhoun, Escambia, Franklin, Gadsden, Gulf, Holmes, Jackson, Leon, Liberty, Okaloosa, Santa Rosa, Wakulla, Walton, Washington and western Jefferson County.
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DISCLAIMER: The District has geographic coordinates for only about 20% of the well permits we have issued. The spatial data provided may therefore only represent a small fraction of the existing wells. The data represents the records for well construction/repair/abandonment permitted beginning in the year 1976 so does not contain data on wells constructed prior to 1976. The location information may have been provided by the well contractor or owner and may not have been verified by the District. Please keep these limitations in mind when using the data.
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Florida Department of Environmental Protection for some FLWUID for public supply wells.
GeoPlan relied on the integrity of the attribute information within the original data.
This data is provided 'as is'. GeoPlan relied on the integrity of the original data layer's topology
Ongoing. Also, not all wells are recorded. Wells permitted before 1976 are not included in the dataset.
Accuracy is not always verified. Following is a list of methods used to locate the wells; Code Locational Method 1 Geographic Information System 2 Global Positioning Satellite 3 Surveyed 4 Topographic Map 5 Driller-supplied Historically datum information for latitude/longitude has not been accurately recorded.
Not known
Spatial and Attribute Information
Tabular data is recorded everyday into Oracle database. GIS layer is updated overnight to reflect the data entered the day before. Then the layer is inserted into SDE.
GeoPlan Center Process Steps: GeoPlan acquired the data via email from the NWFWMD in January 2018. The data downloaded was received in shapefile format. The data was in the following projection: NAD_1983_UTM_Zone_16N The following tasks were undertaken: - Reprojected to the FGDL Albers NAD83 HARN projection. - Deleted OBJECTID field - All records were uppercased. - Selected records with lat/long not equal to zero and exported into new layer, to create layer with only points that contain spatial information. - Changed original layer name from well_permits_jan2018.shp to wells_nwfwmd_jan18. - Added the DESCRIPT field based on WELL_USE. - Added the FGDLAQDATE based on the date GeoPlan acquired the data from the source
Dataset copied.
Internal feature number.
ESRI
Feature geometry.
ESRI
Undefined by source.
NWFWMD
Permit number assigned to the permit application.
NWFWMD
Undefined by source.
NWFWMD
Undefined by source.
NWFWMD
Undefined by source.
NWFWMD
Owner's first name.
NWFWMD
Owner's last name.
NWFWMD
Code describing the use of the water being pumped.
NWFWMD
Agricultural Irrigation
Aquaculture
Aquifer Recharge
Aesthetic
Bottled Water
Commercial
Diversion / Impoundment
Domestic / Multiple Family
Dewatering Wells
Domestic
Essential Service
Fire
Freeze Protection
Golf Course Irrigation
Heat Pump Recharge
Heat Pump Supply
Industrial
Injection Well
Landscape Irrigation
Livestock
Limited Use Public Supply
Mining
Monitor
Navigation
Nursery Irrigation
Other Outside Use
Other
Power Production
Public Supply
Remediation- Air Sparge
Remediation Dual Phase
Recreation Irrigation
Remediation - Other
Remediation - Recovery
Remediation Vapor Extraction
Restoration Well
Soil Boring
Soil Flooding
Sanitation
Test
Temporary Monitor Well
Injection Class V Other
Injection Class V ASR
Water Based Recreation
Unknown
Diameter of the well, in inches.
NWFWMD
Depth of the well, in feet.
NWFWMD
Length of water bearing casing in the completed well (feet).
NWFWMD
Undefined by source.
NWFWMD
Undefined by source.
NWFWMD
Undefined by source.
NWFWMD
Street address of the well location (as opposed to the owner's address).
NWFWMD
Undefined by source.
NWFWMD
Undefined by source.
NWFWMD
Latitude of well.
NWFWMD
Longitude of well.
NWFWMD
Public Land Survey System Township.
NWFWMD
Public Land Survey System Range.
NWFWMD
Public Land Survey System Section.
NWFWMD
Date permit was issued.
NWFWMD
Undefined by source.
NWFWMD
Undefined by source.
NWFWMD
Consumptive use permit number.
NWFWMD
Contains the Consumptive Use Permit application number.
NWFWMD
Florida Unique Well Identification (FLUWID).Multiple agencies have tagging authority in the District Jurisdictional area. This occassionally results in wells having multiple FLUWID numbers. Public Supply wells are particularly suseptible to this.
NWFWMD
Method used to locate the well.
NWFWMD
Undefined by source.
NWFWMD
Undefined by source.
NWFWMD
Undefined by source.
NWFWMD
Undefined by source.
GeoPlan
GeoPlan added field based on WELL_USE
GeoPlan
Date GeoPlan acquired from source
GeoPlan
Unique ID added by GeoPlan
GeoPlan
Location Method: Code Locational Method 1 Geographic Information System 2 Global Positioning Satellite 3 Surveyed 4 Topographic Map 5 Driller-supplied
Location Accuracy: Code Accuracy 1 < 0.3 meters 2 0.3 < 3 meters 3 3 < 15 meters 4 15 < 60 meters 5 >= 60 meters
Water Use: Code Water Use AI Agricultural Irrigation AQ Aquaculture AR Aquifer Recharge AS Aesthetic CO Commercial DI Diversion / Impoundment DM Domestic / Multiple Family DO Domestic DW Dewatering Wells ES Essential Service FI Fire FP Freeze Protection GI Golf Course Irrigation HR Heat Pump Recharge HS Heat Pump Supply IN Industrial IS Institutional LA Landscape Irrigation LI Livestock LP Limited Use Public Supply MI Mining MO Monitor NA Navigation NI Nursery Irrigation OO Other Outside Use PP Power Production PS Public Supply RI Recreation Irrigation RW Restoration Well SF Soil Flooding SN Sanitation TE Test WR Water Based Recreation
Site Type: Code Type G Groundwater S Surface Water K Karst
Well County: Code County 5 Bay 13 Calhoun 33 Escambia 37 Franklin 39 Gadsden 45 Gulf 59 Holmes 63 Jackson 65 Jefferson 73 Leon 77 Liberty 91 Okaloosa 113 Santa Rosa 129 Wakulla 131 Walton 133 Washington
Datum: Code Datum 0 Unknown 1 NAD27 2 NAD83 3 WGS84
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