Florida Administrative Code › 62 - DEPARTMENT OF ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION › 62 - Departmental › Chapter 62-520 - GROUND WATER CLASSES, STANDARDS, AND EXEMPTIONS › Section 62-520.310 - General Provisions for Ground Water

Current through Reg. 50, No. 138; July 16, 2024
(1) A violation
				of any ground water standard or criterion contained in this chapter constitutes
				pollution.
(2) Notwithstanding the
				classification and criteria for ground water set forth in this chapter,
				discharge to ground water shall not impair the designated use of contiguous
				surface waters.
(3) In addition to
				any technology-based effluent limitations required by Department rule, the
				Department shall also specify water quality-based effluent limitations when
				necessary to assure that water quality criteria will be met.
(4) This chapter contains the ground water
				provisions generally applicable unless other rule chapters for specific types
				of installations have other requirements for ground water discharges applicable
				to those installations.
(5)
				Compliance with ground water standards shall be determined by analyses of
				unfiltered ground water samples, unless a filtered sample is as or more
				representative of the particular ground water quality, as described in the
				Department's technical document, "Determining Representative Ground Water
				Samples, Filtered or Unfiltered, " January 1994, hereby incorporated and
				adopted as a reference. This document is available from the Department's Bureau
				of Water Facilities Regulation, MS 3580, 2600 Blair Stone Road, Tallahassee,
				Florida 32399-2400.
(6) For owners
				of an existing installation, compliance with the minimum criteria set forth in
				Rule  62-520.400, F.A.C., shall be
				determined by analysis of the constituents of the waste stream of the
				installation causing the discharge; provided, however, that the installation
				owner may, at his option, place a monitoring well immediately outside the site
				boundary to measure compliance with the minimum criteria, as long as the
				discharge poses no danger to the public health, safety or welfare.
(7) Unless exempted by Rule
				 62-520.500,
				 62-520.510 or
				 62-520.520, F.A.C., no
				installation shall directly or indirectly discharge into ground water any
				contaminant that causes a violation of the water quality standards or minimum
				criteria for the receiving ground water as established in this chapter, except
				within a zone of discharge established by permit or Rule
				 62-520.465, F.A.C.
(8) Zones of discharge shall be allowed for
				projects or facilities that allow direct contact with ground water listed in
				paragraphs (a) through (c), below, and that provide beneficial discharges
				through wells to ground water as described herein or in the cited rules.
(a) Projects designed to recharge aquifers
				with surface water of comparable quality, or projects designed to transfer
				water across or between aquifers of comparable quality for the purpose of
				storage or conservation;
(b)
				Facilities permitted under Rule
				 62-610.466, F.A.C., for aquifer
				storage and recovery of reclaimed water, subsection
				 62-610.560(3),
				F.A.C., for ground water recharge by injection of reclaimed water, or
				subsection  62-610.562(4),
				F.A.C., for creation of salinity barrier systems by injection of reclaimed
				water; and,
(c)
				Department-approved aquifer remediation projects that use Class V, Group 4,
				underground injection control wells as described in paragraph
				 62-528.600(2)(d),
				F.A.C. A zone of discharge shall be allowed for the primary standards for
				ground water for closed-loop re-injection systems and for the prime
				constituents of the reagents used to remediate site contaminants, and for the
				secondary standards for ground water, as specified in a Department-approved
				remedial action plan that addresses the duration and size of the zone of
				discharge, and ground water monitoring requirements.