ND HB1239

Person installing a subsurface water management system on less than 80 acres must notify the local water resource district board with system acreage, legal description, outlet locations, types, and flow directions.

Systems must install pump and control structures at least 25 feet from assessment drain back slopes, maintain erosion controls at all outlets, and close or shut off pumps during critical flood periods.

Water resource district may require properties discharging into assessment drain watersheds to be included in assessment districts based on benefits received, without conducting standard reassessment proceedings.

District boards may order system owners or operators to bring noncompliant systems into compliance with installation requirements.

Violation of requirements constitutes an infraction; notification information provided to water resource districts is exempt from public records disclosure; exemption applies only to agricultural drainage systems and does not apply when discharge is into a body of water completely owned by the system owner.