Florida Administrative Code › 62 - DEPARTMENT OF ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION › 62 - Departmental › Chapter 62-610 - REUSE OF RECLAIMED WATER AND LAND APPLICATION › Part V - GROUND WATER RECHARGE AND INDIRECT POTABLE REUSE › Section 62-610.568 - Monitoring and Operating Protocol

Current through Reg. 50, No. 138; July 16, 2024
(1) Only
				  acceptable quality reclaimed water shall be discharged to reuse systems
				  regulated under Part V of this chapter.
(2) Reclaimed water limitations shall be met
				  before injection to ground water or discharge to surface waters. For projects
				  requiring high-level disinfection, the total suspended solids limitation shall
				  be achieved before disinfection, regardless of the actual reclaimed water
				  compliance monitoring location.
(3)
				  The treatment facility shall include continuous on-line monitoring for
				  turbidity before application of the disinfectant. Continuous monitoring for
				  total residual chlorine or for residual concentrations of other disinfectants,
				  if used, shall be provided at the compliance monitoring point. Instruments for
				  continuous on-line monitoring shall be equipped with an automated data logging
				  or recording device. Continuous online monitoring instruments shall be
				  calibrated according to the requirements of Chapters 62-160 and 62-600, F.A.C.
				  Continuous online monitoring instruments shall be maintained according to the
				  manufacturer's operation and maintenance instructions.
(4) Treatment facilities designed to meet the
				  full treatment and disinfection requirements shall have the reclaimed water
				  sampled and analyzed for TOC and TOX daily, seven days per week.
(5) Treatment facilities that are required to
				  meet the drinking water standards shall sample the reclaimed water for
				  parameters regulated as drinking water standards as follows:
(a) If the treatment facility is required to
				  meet the bacteriological requirements of the drinking water standards, total
				  coliforms and total suspended solids shall be analyzed daily.
(b) Parameters listed as primary drinking
				  water standards that are imposed as reclaimed water limits shall be analyzed
				  monthly. After the first year, the Department shall reduce the monitoring
				  frequency if the applicant provides an affirmative demonstration that reclaimed
				  water limits and ground water standards will be met and that public health will
				  be protected. In no case shall the frequency of this monitoring be reduced
				  below quarterly.
(c) Parameters
				  listed as secondary drinking water standards that are imposed as reclaimed
				  water limits shall be analyzed quarterly. After the first year, the Department
				  shall reduce the monitoring frequency if the applicant provides an affirmative
				  demonstration that reclaimed water limits and ground water standards will be
				  met and that public health will be protected. In no case shall the frequency of
				  this monitoring be reduced below annually. The pH of the reclaimed water shall
				  be analyzed daily.
(d) Except for
				  total coliforms and pH, twenty-four hour composite samples shall be used to
				  analyze the reclaimed water for parameters listed as primary or secondary
				  drinking water standards.