Includes recycling and remediation equipment. The continuous movement of waste from generator to treater and disposer. Facility where recovered municipal solid waste is converted into a usable form of energy, usually via combustion. The plan or network for the collection, treatment, and disposal of sewage in a community. The spent or used water from a home, community, farm, or industry that contains dissolved or suspended matter.
Facilities are commonly know as POTWs or publicly owned treatment works .
Provide equipment, supplies and maintenance in the delivery and treatment of water and wastewater. Criteria are based on specific levels of pollutants that would make the water harmful if used for drinking, swimming, farming, fish production, or industrial processes. The standards prescribe the use of the water body and establish the water quality criteria that must be met to protect designated uses. Effluent limitations applied to dischargers when mere technology-based limitations would cause violations of water quality standards. Usually applied to discharges into small streams.