For purposes of this article:

1. 1. "Clean Water Act" means the federal Water Pollution Control Act, 33 U.S.C., Section 1251 et seq., as amended;
2. 2. "Disposal system" means pipelines or conduits, pumping stations and force mains and all other devices, construction, appurtenances and facilities used for collecting, conducting or disposing of wastewater, including treatment systems;
3. 3. "Drainage basin" means all of the water collection area adjacent to the highest water line of a reservoir which may be considered by the Department to be necessary to protect adequately the waters of the reservoir. The area may extend upstream on any watercourse to any point within six hundred (600) feet of the highest water line of the reservoir;
4. 4. "Federal Safe Drinking Water Act" means the federal law at 42 U.S.C., Section 300 et seq., as amended;
5. 5. "Indirect discharge" means the introduction of pollutants to a publicly owned treatment works from a nondomestic source;
6. 6. "N.
7. P.
8. D.
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10. S. " or "National Pollutant Discharge Elimination System" means the system for the issuance of permits under the federal Water Pollution Control Act, 33 U.S.C., Section 1251 et seq., as amended;
11. 7. "Nonpoint source" means the contamination of the environment with a pollutant for which the specific point of origin may not be well defined and includes but is not limited to agricultural storm water runoff and return flows from irrigated agriculture;
12. 8. "Pollutant" means dredged spoil, solid waste, incinerator residue, sewage, garbage, sewage sludge, munitions, chemical wastes, biological materials, radioactive materials, heat, wrecked or discarded equipment, rock, sand, cellar dirt and industrial, municipal, and agribusiness waste discharged into waters of the state;
13. 9. "Public water supply" means water supplied to the public for domestic or drinking purposes;
14. 10. "Reservoir" means any reservoir, whether completed or in the process of construction, whether or not used as a water supply, and whether or not constructed by any recipient of water therefrom;
15. 11. "Sludge" means nonhazardous solid, semi-solid, or liquid residue generated by the treatment of domestic sewage or wastewater by a treatment works, or water by a water supply system, or manure, or such residue, treated or untreated, which results from industrial, nonindustrial, commercial, or agribusiness activities or industrial or manufacturing processes and which is within the jurisdiction of the Department;
16. 12. "Small public sewage system" shall mean a disposal or collection system which serves less than ten (10) residential units or a public or commercial sewage system which has an average flow of less than five thousand (5,000) gallons per day;
17. 13. "Total maximum daily load" means the sum of individual wasteload allocations (W.L.A.) for point sources, safety, reserves, and loads from nonpoint sources and natural backgrounds;
18. 14. "Treatment works" means any facility used for the purpose of treating or stabilizing wastes or wastewater. "Treatment works" shall be synonymous with "wastewater works";
19. 15. "Waste" means any liquid, gaseous or solid or semi-solid substance, or thermal component, whether domestic, municipal, commercial, agricultural or industrial in origin, which may pollute or contaminate, or tend to pollute or contaminate, any air, land or waters of the state and which is within the jurisdiction of the Department;
20. 16. "Wastewater" includes any substance, including sewage, that contains any discharge from the bodies of human beings or animals, or contaminating chemicals or other waste or pollutants from domestic, municipal, commercial, agricultural, industrial or manufacturing activities or facilities and which is within the jurisdiction of the Department;
21. 17. "Wastewater treatment" means any method, technique or process used to remove waste, pollutants from wastewater or sludge to the extent that the wastewater or sludge may be reused, discharged into waters of the state or otherwise disposed and includes, but is not limited to, the utilization of mechanized works, surface impoundments and lagoons, aeration, evaporation, best management practices (BMPs), buffer strips, crop removal or trapping, constructed wetlands, digesters or the devices or methods. "Treatment" also means any method, technique or process used in the purification of drinking water;
22. 18. "Wastewater treatment system" means treatment works and all related pipelines or conduits, pumping stations and force mains, and all other appurtenances and devices used for collecting, treating, conducting or discharging wastewater;
23. 19. "Water supply system" means a water treatment plant, water wells, and all related pipelines or conduits, pumping stations and mains and all other appurtenances and devices used for distributing water to the public and, as such, shall be synonymous with waterworks;
24. 20. "Waters of the state" means all streams, lakes, ponds, marshes, watercourses, waterways, wells, springs, irrigation systems, drainage systems, storm sewers, and all other bodies or accumulations of water, surface and underground, natural or artificial, public or private, which are contained within, flow through or border upon this state or any portion thereof, and shall include under all circumstances the water of the United States which are contained within the boundaries of, flow through or border upon this state or any portion thereof; and
25. 21. "Wellhead protection area" means the surface and subsurface area surrounding a water well or wellfield, supplying a public water system, that defines the areal extent from which water is supplied to such water well or wellfield.

Added by Laws 1993, c. 145, § 56, eff. July 1, 1993; Amended by Laws 1993, c. 324, § 19, eff. July 1, 1993; Amended by Laws 1994, c. 353, § 8, eff. July 1, 1994; Amended by Laws 1997, c. 217, § 2, eff. July 1, 1997 (superseded document available); Amended by Laws 1999, SB 549, c. 413, § 5, eff. November 1, 1999 (superseded document available).