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Show 650 PENNSYLVANIA The courts have demonstrated a concern for ground water pollu- tion. A person may be held liable for polluting subterranean waters by improperly maintaining a cesspool;97 or by allowing oil to escape from pipes or other installations;98 or by negligently allowing salt water from one underground stratum to penetrate and pollute other strata while drilling for oil and gas (at least where the driller at reasonable cost could have prevented the comingling)." As more fully discussed earlier in section 2.3.d., Pennsylvania, in 1956, enacted a well drillers license act which since 1968 has been administered by the Bureau of topographic and geologic survey in the department of environmental resources. The act provides for the licensing and regulation of well drillers, but exempts persons who drill wells on their own lands for their own farming or residential uses.100 Publications Available Institution for water resource research: Institute for Research on Land and Water Resources The Pennsylvania State University 102 Research Building 3 University Park, Pa. 16802 814-865-8355 or 3933 Publications Lynch, Riparian Title in Pennsylvania, 41 Penn. B.A. Q. 224 (1970). Hess, Present Status of Flood Plain Zoning in Pennsylvania, 40 Penn. B.A. Q. 578 (1969). Note, Regulation of Pennsylvania's Pleasure Boating, 37 Temp. L. Q. 496 (1964). Note, Real Property: Surface Waters: Reasonable Use Rule: Nonnatural Use of the Land, 45 Cornell L.Q. 824 (1960). «Appeal of Hough, 102 Pa. 42, 2 Walk. 316 (1883). »*Hauck v. Tidewater Pipeline Go., 153 Pa. 366, 26 Atl. 644 (1893). "Steele v. Todd, 158 Pa. 515, 27 Atl. 942 (1893). 100 See discussion of this act in section 2.3.d., supra. |