Illinois Administrative Code › Title 35 - ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION › Part 651 - INTRODUCTION AND DEFINITIONS › Section 651.102 - Definitions

Current through Register Vol. 48, No. 28, July 12, 2024
In addition to these definitions, all definitions of the
				Illinois Environmental Protection Act [415 ILCS 5 ] and 35 Ill. Adm. Code 601
				and 611 shall apply to the Agency Rules for Public Water Supplies.
"Act" means the Illinois Environmental Protection Act [415 ILCS
				5 ].
"Agency" means the Illinois Environmental Protection
				Agency.
"Air gap" means the unobstructed vertical distance through the
				free atmosphere between the water discharge point and the flood level rim of
				the receptacle.
"Atmospheric vacuum breaker" means a device designed to admit
				atmospheric pressure into a piping system whenever a vacuum is caused on the
				upstream side of the device.
"AWWA Standards" means those standards published by the
				American Water Works Association as of June 1999.
"Board" means the Illinois Pollution Control Board.
"Capacity" means the ability to plan for, achieve and maintain
				compliance with applicable drinking water standards. Capacity has three
				components: technical, managerial and financial. Adequate capability in all
				three areas is necessary for a system to have "capacity".
"Capacity development" is the process of water systems
				acquiring and maintaining adequate technical, managerial, and financial
				capabilities to consistently provide safe drinking water. The federal Safe
				Drinking Water Act amendments of 1996 provide a framework for states and water
				systems to work together to ensure that systems acquire and maintain the
				technical, managerial and financial capacity needed to meet the Act's public
				health protection objectives. The definitions of technical, managerial, and
				financial capacities are as follows:
"Technical capacity" means the physical and operational ability
				of a water system to achieve and maintain federal drinking water requirements
				and State drinking water requirements as described in the Act and 35 Ill. Adm.
				Code: Subtitle F, Chapters I and II. Technical capacity means the physical
				infrastructure of the water system and includes but is not limited to adequacy
				of source water and treatment, storage and distribution components, as well as
				the ability of system personnel to adequately operate and maintain the
				system.
"Managerial capacity" means the ability of a water system to
				conduct its business in a manner that enables the system to achieve and
				maintain compliance with federal drinking water requirements and State drinking
				water requirements as described in the Act and 35 Ill. Adm. Code: Subtitle F,
				Chapters I and II. Managerial capacity includes the system's institutional and
				administrative capabilities, and is assessed using data documenting ownership
				accountability, staffing and organization, and effective external linkages with
				water customers, external resource agencies, and regulators.
"Financial capacity" means the ability of a water system to
				acquire and manage sufficient financial resources to enable the system to
				achieve and maintain compliance with federal drinking water requirements and
				State drinking water requirements as described in the Act and 35 Ill. Adm.
				Code: Subtitle F, Chapters I and II. Financial capacity includes revenue
				sufficiency, credit worthiness, and use of budgeting, accounting, and financial
				planning practices, as well as documentation of financial management through
				record keeping and revenue management.
"Chlorine" -
"Chlorine demand" means the difference between the amount of
				chlorine applied to a given water and the amount of total available chlorine
				remaining at the end of the contact period. All test conditions (contact time,
				pH and temperature) shall be given in expressing the chlorine demand in a given
				water.
"Combined chlorine" means the reaction product formed when
				chlorine has reacted with ammonia to form chloramines.
"Free chlorine" means the residual chlorine existing in water
				as the sum of hypochlorous acid and hypochlorite ion.
"Total chlorine" means the sum of the free chlorine and the
				combined chlorine.
"Cross-connection" -
"Cross-connection" means any physical connection or arrangement
				between two otherwise separate piping systems, one of which contains potable
				water and the other contains water of unknown or questionable safety or steam,
				gases or chemicals, if there may be a flow from one system to the other.
"Direct cross-connection" means a cross-connection formed when
				a water system is physically joined to a source of unknown or unsafe
				substance.
"Indirect cross-connection" means a cross-connection formed
				when an unknown substance can be forced, drawn by vacuum or otherwise
				introduced into a safe water system.
"DPD method" means an analytical method for determining
				chlorine residual utilizing the reagent DPD
				(n-diethyl-p-phenylenylenediamine).
"Effective external linkage" is the ability of a water system
				to communicate and exchange information with water customers, regulators,
				technical and financial assistance organizations, and other entities that
				routinely interact with the water system.
"Infrastructure" means all mains, pipes including water service
				lines, and structures through which water is obtained and distributed to the
				public, including wells and well structures, intakes and cribs, pumping
				stations, treatment plants, reservoirs, storage tanks and appurtenances,
				collectively or severally, actually used or intended to be used for the purpose
				of furnishing water for drinking or general domestic use.
"Interconnection" means a physical connection between two or
				more community water supply systems.
"New public water supply" (new PWS) means, beginning after
				October 1, 1999, all new community water supplies and new non-transient
				non-community water supplies and those water supplies that expand their
				infrastructure to serve or intend to serve at least 25 persons at least 60 days
				per year. Any water system not currently PWS that adds persons so that the
				total served is 25 persons or more without constructing additional
				infrastructure will become a PWS, but will not be required to demonstrate
				capacity under 35 Ill. Adm. Code
				652.701 unless
				the PWS is on restricted status as required by 35 Ill. Adm. Code
				602.106.
"Properly certified operator" means an operator certified in
				accordance with the Public Water Supply Operations Act [415 ILCS 45 ].
"Public Water Supply" (PWS) means all mains, pipes and
				structures through which water is obtained and distributed to the public,
				including wells and well structures, intakes and cribs, pumping stations,
				treatment plants, reservoirs, storage tanks and appurtenances, collectively or
				severally, actually used or intended for use for the purpose of furnishing
				water for drinking or general domestic use and which serve at least 15 service
				connections or which regularly serve at least 25 persons at least 60 days per
				year. (Section 3.28 of the Act)
"Satellite supply" means any community water supply
				that:
purchases all finished water from another community water
				supply;
does not provide any treatment other than chlorination;
				and
distributes finished water to the consumers.
"Standards" means the Recommended Standards for Water Works as
				adopted by the Great Lakes-Upper Mississippi River Board of State Sanitary
				Engineers, 1982 edition.
"Water Service Lines" means any pipe from the water main or
				source of potable water supply that serves or is accessible to not more than
				one property, dwelling, or rental unit of the user. Each water service line
				must also meet the applicable requirements of 35 Ill. Adm. Code 651 through 654
				and the applicable requirements of the Illinois Plumbing Code (77 Ill. Adm.
				Code 890).