Agricultural Drainage Wells and Sinkholes (Iowa Code: Title XI - Natural Resources; Chapter 460) Country/Territory United States of America Territorial subdivision Iowa Document type Legislation Date 2018 Source FAO, FAOLEX Subject Water Keyword Drainage/land reclamation Well sinking/boreholes Basin/catchment/watershed Groundwater Surface water Special fund Water quality standards Pollution control Freshwater pollution Freshwater resources management Servitude Inland waters Geographical area Americas, Arctic, East Pacific, North America, North Atlantic Abstract This chapter of the Iowa Code concerns agricultural drainage wells and sinkholes. It defines “agricultural drainage well” as a vertical opening to an aquifer or permeable substratum which is constructed by any means including but not limited to drilling, driving, digging, boring, augering, jetting, washing, or coring, and which is capable of intercepting or receiving surface or subsurface drainage water from land directly or by a drainage system. It provides that an owner of land on which an agricultural drainage well is located shall prevent surface water from draining into the agricultural drainage well. It further provides for preventing surface water drainage into agricultural drainage wells; closing of agricultural drainage wells and construction of alternative drainage systems; prohibition against constructing earthen storage structures; agricultural drainage well water quality assistance fund; agricultural drainage well water quality assistance program; and sinkholes conservation easement program. Full text English Website www.legis.iowa.gov