Revised Code of Washington - RCW Title 90 Water Rights -- Environment - Section 90.36.030 Capping well -- Exceptions

§ 90.36.030. Capping well -- Exceptions

It shall be the duty of every person, firm, corporation or company having possession or control of any artesian well, as provided in RCW 90.36.020, to securely cap the same over on or before the fifteenth day of October in each and every year in such manner as to prevent the flow or escape of water therefrom, and to keep the same securely capped and prevent the flow or escape of water therefrom until the fifteenth day of March next ensuing; PROVIDED, HOWEVER, It shall and may be lawful for any such person, firm, corporation or company to insert a three-quarters inch stop and waste cock in the piping of such well, and to take and use water therefrom through such stop and waste cock at any time for household, stock, or domestic purposes, but not otherwise.

[1929 c 138 § 2; 1901 c 121 § 2; RRS § 7405.]

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