Was that a state department or Federal? Sounds like your problem is with your state.
Our property has a natural year-round spring that flows strongly out of a hillside. A pipe was installed over 40 years ago and at one time, everyone in the area would stop and ask if they could fill water bottles from it. Not so many, now, though or for the past 10 years or so. We have another 3 springs, one of which dries up in the heat of the summer, the other is w/in the 25’ exclusion zone of a National Trout Stream and so, cannot be used, although back about the turn of the century, a ram pump and cachement were installed there.
I just checked and you are in Washington State. This is the place that says you have no right to rain water that falls on your buildings, right? Does your State government have the right to *relocate* your private well? How do they justify that in a water-rich area?
*relocate* as in establish the location, not as in move to a new location.
Was that a state department or Federal?
that was another strange issue, I asked the county commish and the local PUD commish. no one was aware of any program to establish well locations.