The Secretary of the Environment has no hard and fast rules relating to the purification of water supplies, nor has he deemed it wise to establish written standards of purity for streams or other bodies of water into which sewage shall discharge. Conditions are very different in various sections of the State, and also even in neighboring districts. Each water supply and each sewerage system presents a separate problem which shall be solved in a satisfactory manner to conform with the surrounding conditions.

Authority: Environment Article, §§9-506 and 9-510, Annotated Code of Maryland

Effective date: January 1, 1964

Amended effective December 1, 1970

Regulations .01B—E, .07, and .08 repealed effective August 8, 1980 (7:16 Md. R. 1595)

Regulation .02C amended effective August 8, 1980 (7:16 Md. R. 1595)

Chapter recodified from COMAR 10.17.05 to COMAR 26.03.02

Regulations .01 amended effective July 25, 1988 (15:15 Md. R. 1813)

Regulation .02J adopted effective July 25, 1988 (15:15 Md. R. 1813)

Regulation .02J amended effective June 18, 2018 (45:12 Md. R. 618)