MIL-HDBK-1005/16
Table 16
Classifications of Injection Wells
Class
Description
I
1.
Wells used by generators of hazardous wastes or
owners or operators of hazardous waste management
facilities to inject hazardous waste beneath the
lowermost formation containing, within one-quarter
mile of the well bore, an underground source of
2.
Other industrial and municipal (publicly or
privately owned) disposal wells which inject fluids
beneath the lowermost formation containing, within
one-quarter mile of the well bore, an underground
source of drinking water.
II
Wells that inject fluids:
1.
That are brought to the surface in connection with
conventional oil or natural gas production and may
be commingled with wastewaters from gas plants
which are an integral part of production
operations, unless those waters are classified as a
hazardous waste at the time of injection.
2.
For enhanced recovery of oil or natural gas.
3.
For storage of hydrocarbons that are liquid at
standard temperature and pressure.
III
Wells that inject for extraction of minerals,
including:
1.
Mining of sulfur by the Frasch process.
2.
Solution mining of minerals.
(Note: Solution mining of minerals includes sodium
chloride, potash, phosphate, copper, uranium,
and any other mineral that can be mined by this
process.)
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