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AGENT The Nashoba Associated Boards of Health, as designated by MGL c. 111, § 27A, the Harvard Board of Health or other individuals designated as agents by the Harvard Board of Health.

AGRICULTURAL WELL A well which provides water solely for agricultural purposes.

AGRICULTURE The business of cultivating the soil, producing crops, and raising livestock useful to humans.

APPLICANT Any person who intends to have a well constructed or deconstructed.

APPROVED SAMPLER An individual or entity granted authority by the Harvard Board of Health to sample private well water in anticipation of quality analysis. An approved sampler is required to adhere to the Harvard Board of Health's approved "Best Practices for Water Quality Sampling of Private Wells."

AQUIFER A water-bearing geologic formation, group of formations, or part of a formation that contains sufficient saturated permeable material to yield significant quantities of water to wells and springs.

BEDROCK The solid rock that underlies all soil, sand, clay, gravel, and loose material on the earth's surface.

BOARD The Board of Health of the Town of Harvard, Massachusetts or its authorized agent.

BOREHOLE A deep, narrow hole made in the ground, especially to locate water which is not intended for use for drinking water.

BUILDING SEWER A pipe which begins outside the inner face of a building wall and extends to a subsurface sewage disposal system (on-site system) or municipal or private sewer.

BUSINESS OF DIGGING OR DRILLING A person who charges a fee for digging or drilling a well, or a person who advertises for hire the availability to dig or drill wells within the Commonwealth of Massachusetts.

CASING Impervious durable pipe placed in a boring to prevent the walls from caving in and to serve as a vertical conduit for water in a well.

CERTIFIED LABORATORY Any laboratory currently certified by the Massachusetts Department of Environmental Protection for drinking water analysis. A laboratory holding provisional certification shall also qualify.

CLOSED-LOOP GEOTHERMAL BOREHOLE A boring drilled to facilitate the installation of a pipe loop or tubing for a ground source heat pump system, whether circulating water, heat transfer fluid or refrigerant using direct exchange.

DRILLED WELL Any well that is drilled into bedrock with a casing that is sealed to the bedrock.

DRINKING WATER WELL A deep well (required to be greater than 100 feet in depth) for the purpose of delivering potable water.

DRIVEN WELL Any well utilizing a drive-well point which is driven into the ground.

DUAL-USE WELL A well which provides for both drinking water and as a geothermal exchange.

DUG WELL Any excavation dug by man or machine which is used to provide water for irrigation or any other purpose.

GEOTHERMAL WELL Any shaft or hole drilled into the surface of the earth, greater than 20 feet in depth, which is used or intended to be used in connection with coring, or the drilling for, prospecting for, or the production of geothermal resources, hot water, petroleum, natural gas, or other hydrocarbon substances, or shallow extraction wells for heating, agricultural or other purposes, or is used or intended to be used for the subsurface injection into the earth of oilfield waste, gases, water or liquid substances, including any such existing hole, shaft or casing which has not been abandoned, except that "geothermal, oil or gas exploratory or development well" shall not include "temporary exploratory probe," as defined in this section.