Arkansas Code of 1987 (2023) › Title 8 - ENVIRONMENTAL LAW (§§ 8-1-101 — 8-15-119) › Chapter 4 - ARKANSAS WATER AND AIR POLLUTION CONTROL ACT (§§ 8-4-101 — 8-4-401) › Subchapter 1 - GENERAL PROVISIONS (§§ 8-4-101 — 8-4-107) › Section 8-4-102 - Definitions

As used in this chapter:
(1)
"Any wastes" and "pollutants" include sewage, industrial wastes, or other wastes;
(2)
"Discharge into the waters of the state" means a discharge of any wastes in any manner that directly or indirectly permits such wastes to reach any of the waters of the state;
(3)
"Disposal system" means a system for disposing of sewage, industrial waste, and other wastes and includes sewer systems and treatment works;
(4)
"Industrial waste" means any liquid, gaseous, or solid waste substance resulting from any process of industry, mining, manufacturing, trade, or business or from the development of any natural resources;
(5)
"Other wastes" means garbage, municipal refuse, decayed wood, sawdust, shavings, bark, lime, sand, ashes, offal, oil, tar chemicals, and all other organic or inorganic substances, not including sewage or industrial waste that may be discharged into the waters of the state;
(6)
"Person" means any state agency, municipality, governmental subdivision of the state or the United States, public or private corporation, individual, partnership, association, or other entity;
(7)
"Pollution" means such contamination or other alteration of the physical, chemical, or biological properties of any waters of the state, or such discharge of any liquid, gaseous, or solid substance in any waters of the state as will, or is likely to, render the waters harmful, detrimental, or injurious to public health, safety, or welfare, to domestic, commercial, industrial, agricultural, recreational, or other legitimate beneficial uses, or to livestock, wild animals, birds, fish, or other aquatic life;
(8)
"Sewage" means the water-carried waste products from residences, public buildings, institutions, or other buildings, including the excrementitious or other discharge from the bodies of humans or animals, together with such groundwater infiltration and surface water as may be present;
(9)
"Sewer system" means pipelines or conduits, pumping stations, and force mains, and all other constructions, devices, and appliances appurtenant thereto, which are used for conducting sewage or industrial waste or other wastes to a point of disposal;
(10)
"Treatment works" means any plant, disposal field, lagoon, dam, pumping station, constructed drainage ditch or surface water intercepting ditch, incinerator, area devoted to sanitary landfills, or other works not specifically mentioned in this section, which is installed for the purpose of treating, stabilizing, or disposing of sewage, industrial waste, or other wastes; and
(11)
"Waters of the state" means all streams, lakes, marshes, ponds, watercourses, waterways, wells, springs, irrigation systems, drainage systems, 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 of the state.
Acts 1949, No. 472 [Part 1], § 1; 1961, No. 120, §§ 1, 2; 1975, No. 743, §§ 2, 3; A.S.A. 1947, § 82-1902; Acts 1993, No. 163, § 9; 1993, No. 165, § 9.