The ARID System offers a simple, inexpensive and effective method of water handling with many advantages, including:

• No NPDES (National Pollution Discharge Elimination System ) permitting required
• A less burdened permitting process and cost.
• In most applications, the Underground Injection Control permit is included in the cost of the ARID System.
• This method is allowed by the Federal Government to be accounted for in water balance calculations, allowing permitting on wells otherwise not permitted because of unbalanced outflows.
• In Wyoming, the Wyoming Oil & Gas Conservation Commission will require a Sundry Notice on newly perforated intervals in an existing well, but has no other involvement in the process.
• Eliminates or greatly reduces Landowner/Attorney negotiations relating to damage payments on water discharge issues.
• No water flow lines to be constructed to each well.
• No water outfalls to be constructed.
• No Discharge Monitor Reports to be completed.
• Thinner coals become economical as costs of managing produced water are greatly reduced.
• Wells that produce from 1gpm to 75 gpm or more will be candidates for injection.
• Environmentally attractive, as better quality water is recharging the shallow aquifer on which landowners rely.
• Better economics extend the life of production wells and ultimately the Basin's CBM play.
• Predictability regarding drilling, construction, and compression allows for better budget planning and forecasting.
• Maintenance costs for water management facilities are significantly reduced as the ARID System has no moving parts and can be re-dressed in the field.
• Per the Montana DEQ Report Chapter 6, Mitigation of Impacts to Water Resources, "Disposal to shallow aquifers: Shallow injection has the advantage of preserving the CBM water resource at the same time that surface waters and surface soil is protected."