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Vietnam’s current regulations on licensed groundwater drilling scale

11:28, 26/07/2016

On July 01, 2016, the Government of Vietnam issued Decree No. 60/2016/NĐ-CP providing for certain regulatory requirements for trade and investment in the environment and natural resource sector.

According to Decree No. 60/2016/NĐ-CP of Vietnam’s Government, licensed groundwater drilling scale is specified as follows:

- Small-scale groundwater drilling means drilling and installation of groundwater wells that have below-110-mm diameter casing or tubular pipes, and belong to the projects that each provide their water flow of less than 200 m3/day-night;

- Medium-scale groundwater drilling means drilling and installation of groundwater wells that have below-250-mm diameter casing or tubular pipes, and belong to the projects designed to provide the water flow ranging from 200 m3/day-night to under less than 3,000 m3/day-night;

- Large-scale groundwater drilling includes operations other than those specified above.

Also according to Decree No. 60/2016/NĐ-CP, the projects specified above are systems constituted by one or more wells located within the same groundwater exploration and abstraction site, and having the distance between adjacent wells of less than 1,000 m, and owned by one institutional or individual entity.

View more details at Decree No. 60/2016/NĐ-CP of Vietnam’s Government, effective from July 01, 2016.

- Thanh Lam -

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