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Banks Water Well ReP0rtTMInformation Solutions , Inc. SUMMARY Water Well ReportTm Research Ma ping Protocol The Banks Information Solutions, Inc. Water Well Report", is prepared from existing state water well databases and additional file data/records research conducted at the California Department of Water Resources. Submission of water well drillers logs is mandatory under California law. It should be noted that the California water well law applies to all persons constructing, altering, or destroying water wells regardless of whether or not they are engaged in the business of well construction. The law also applies to persons who convert, for use as a water well, an oil or gas well originally constructed under the jurisdiction of the Department of Conservation. More importantly, Banks (as well as any other public entity) is not granted the privilege of viewing, analyzing, or photocopying any filed notice of intent to engage in water well drilling activity or any completion reports, drillers logs,and well schedules. This rule inhibits the public from obtaining crucial data involving owner name, well use, total depth, drill date, etc. The public, in certain instances, can obtain, by law, limited data found on state location maps and groundwater analysis records. Please note the following opinion released on March 30, 1970 from the office of Chief Counsel Porter A.Towner, Department of Water Resources: "Section 13752 (California Water Code)provides that the information in the fogs and reports 'shall not be made available for inspection by the public but shall be made :-3 available to governmental agencies for use in makingstudies, provided that any report shall be made available to any person who obtains a written authorization from the owner of the water well.' When a governmental agency hires you as a consultant, that agency can release the information in the log to you for use in a study, but you would be subject to the same limitations as the public agency. Publication of specific items of information from the well reports, including the well logs, without the consent of the owner(s), is prohibited. You may publish discussions of groundwater conditions in an area described by section, township, and range, even though the conditions were established in whole or in part from studies of well reports. Reference to a specific well must be omitted if the information is derived from the report rather than an independent source. The best way for making the information available without restriction and to use it in a public report is to obtain written releases from the owners of the well." Banks Information Solutions, Inc. has performed a thorough and diligent search of all groundwater well information provided and recorded with the California Department of Water Resources. All mapped locations are based on information obtained from the Department of Water Resources. Although Banks performs quality assurance and quality control on all research projects, we recognize that any inaccuracies of the records and mapped well locations could possibly be traced to the Department of Water Resources or the actual driller. It may be possible that some water well schedules and logs have never been submitted to the Department of Water Resources, as required by law, and thus may explain the possible unaccountability of privately drilled wells. It is uncertain if the above listing provides 1000A of the existing wells within the area of review. Therefore, Banks Information Solutions, Inc. cannot fully guarantee the accuracy of the data or well location(s) of those maps and records maintained by the California Department of Water Resources. P.O. Box 12851, Capitol Station, Austin, TX 78711 1701 Nueces, Austin, TX 78701 512.478.0059 FAX 512.478.1433 e-mail banks@banksinfo.com