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This law was first created in 1998. The record of its establishment is cataloged in chapter 227<\/a> of that year\u2019s edition of \u201cActs of Assembly,\u201d the annual state publication listing all changes made to the Code of Virginia in that year. It has been modified 2 times. Those modifications are cataloged by \u201cThe Acts of Assembly,\u201d a state publication, by year and chapter. Those modifications that can be read on the General Assembly\u2019s website will be linked accordingly. Those modifications are as follows: in 2009, chapter 293<\/a>; in 2017, chapter 17<\/a>.<\/p>","references":[{"id":364194,"section_number":"45.2-1648","catch_line":" Operator's right to sample water","order_by":null,"url":"\/45.2-1648\/"}],"refers_to":false,"permalink":{"id":1451885,"object_type":"law","relational_id":364195,"identifier":"45.2-1649","token":"45.2\/IV\/16\/5\/45.2-1649","url":"\/45.2-1649\/","edition_id":2,"permalink":0,"preferred":1},"url":"\/45.2-1649\/","token":"45.2\/IV\/16\/5\/45.2-1649","dublin_core":{"Title":" Replacement of water supply","Type":"Text","Format":"text\/html","Identifier":"\u00a7 45.2-1649","Relation":"Code of Virginia"},"html":"\n\t\t\t\t\t\t

If any water supply of a surface owner<\/span> who obtains all or part of his supply of water for domestic use from a water well<\/span> has been materially affected by contamination or partial or complete interruption proximately resulting from a gas<\/span> well operation within 1,320 feet of the water well<\/span>, the operator of such gas<\/span> well shall promptly provide a replacement water supply that shall be capable of meeting the uses such water supply met prior to the contamination or partial or complete interruption.<\/p><\/section>","plain_text":" CODE OF VIRGINIA\n\n REPLACEMENT OF WATER SUPPLY (\u00a7 45.2-1649)\n\nIf any water supply of a surface owner who obtains all or part of his supply of\nwater for domestic use from a water well has been materially affected by\ncontamination or partial or complete interruption proximately resulting from a\ngas well operation within 1,320 feet of the water well, the operator of such gas\nwell shall promptly provide a replacement water supply that shall be capable of\nmeeting the uses such water supply met prior to the contamination or partial or\ncomplete interruption.\n\nHISTORY: 1998, c. 227, \u00a7 45.1-361.44; 2009, c. 293; 2017, c. 17; 2021, Sp.\nSess. I, c. 387.","edition":{"id":2,"name":"2026","slug":"2026","date_created":"2026-07-16 18:40:23","date_modified":"2026-08-02 15:14:36","current":1,"order_by":2,"last_import":"2026-08-02 12:37:30"}}