Texas authorized pits — RRC Chapter 4 ORR

Schedule

Schedule A (drilling/workover) Schedule B (produced-water recycling)

Status

Active Closed

Data quality

Exclude bulk-loaded (July 2026 migration) rows

Hypothesis layers (each restricts to pits flagged)

H1 operator reports groundwater ≤50 ft below pit floor: liner required by own number (842) H1 same, ≤10 ft (248) H1 (surface-basis reading, kept for comparison) groundwater within 50 ft of floor H1 groundwater at/above floor H3 district-office registrant (865 of 959 resolved to a real operator; see popup) H4 closed-but-Active H4 30-day overdue H4 completion/workover backfill overdue H7 county mismatch H7 garbage dimensions H7 stacked coordinates

H2 FEMA floodplain (NFHL 2025-09)

H2 inside a Special Flood Hazard Area, 100-yr floodplain (260) H2 inside a regulatory floodway (4)

Drinking-water proximity (TCEQ public water system wells and surface intakes)

within 500 ft of a public water system well or intake (5, all Schedule A; the §4.115(f)(3) ban covers Schedule B only) within 1 mile of a public water system well or intake (298)

Aquifers (TWDB polygons; presence of an aquifer, not water quality)

over a TWDB major aquifer (4,602) over a major or minor aquifer (6,657) Show major aquifer outlines

Imagery check (NAIP 2024 + Esri; SFHA-Active and H1-strict lists only)

pit visible at the coordinate pit visible, no liner seen no oilfield activity in the chip (coordinate error?)

TWDB groundwater check (state wells within 3 mi)

reported 1 ft, state wells say deeper (placeholder) liner trigger undeclared, state wells say it applies (927) same, 3+ wells measured since 2015 (230) same, every nearby well within 50 ft of floor (76)

County choropleth (H5)

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Barnett Shale counties

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