Florida Administrative Code › 40 - WATER MANAGEMENT DISTRICTS › 40A - Northwest Florida Water Management District › Chapter 40A-21 - WATER SHORTAGE PLAN › Part I - GENERAL › Section 40A-21.051 - Definitions

Current through Reg. 50, No. 138; July 16, 2024
When used in this plan:
(1) "Chemigation" means the introduction or
				  application of chemicals (fertilizers, herbicides, fungicides, etc.) through an
				  irrigation system.
(2) "Water Use
				  Caution Area" means a geographic area officially designated, by rule or order,
				  by the Governing Board that is experiencing, or is likely to experience within
				  the next 20 years, source-specific water resource problems of a significant
				  long-term or recurrent nature. Such a designation may result in the
				  establishment of management levels in the area and other regulatory and
				  monitoring activities, under current authority.
(3) "Even Numbered Address" means the house
				  address, box number or rural route ending in the numbers 0, 2, 4, 6, 8 or the
				  letters A - M. Post office box numbers are not included.
(4) "Even Numbered Days" means the days whose
				  dates end in the numbers 0, 2, 4, 6 or 8. For purposes of this plan, each day
				  will begin at 12:00 a.m.
(5) "Flood
				  Irrigation" means the delivery of plant or crop irrigation water by the design
				  and practice of the flowing of water over the surface to saturate the root
				  zone, or, in specific applications, the raising of the level of ground water
				  through the root zone or to the soil surface.
(6) "Low-Volume Irrigation" means the use of
				  equipment and devices specifically designed to allow the volume of water
				  delivered to be limited to a level consistent with the water requirement of the
				  plant being irrigated and to allow that water to be placed with a high degree
				  of efficiency in the root zone of the plant. The term also includes water use
				  in mist houses and similar establishments for plant propagation and low volume
				  hand watering/irrigation of plants or crops with one hose fitted with a
				  self-cancelling or automatic shutoff nozzle. Overhead irrigation and flood
				  irrigation are not included.
(7)
				  "Low-Volume Mobile Equipment Washing" means the washing of mobile equipment
				  with a "bucket" and "sponge" or a hose with a self-cancelling or automatic
				  shutoff nozzle or both.
(8)
				  "Low-Volume Pressure Cleaning" means pressure cleaning by means of equipment
				  which is specifically designed to reduce the inflow volume as accepted by
				  industry standards.
(9) "Management
				  Level" means that potentiometric level or surface water level below which it
				  has been determined that further declines could possibly cause water quality
				  degradation or could interfere with any existing legal uses of water in the
				  area according to the best hydrologic information available.
(10) "Method of Extraction or Diversion
				  Class" means the type of facility or means of withdrawal from the water
				  resource employed by the user. Method of extraction or diversion classes within
				  the District are specified in Rule
				   40A-21.571, F.A.C.
(11) "Minimum Flow and Minimum Level" means
				  that flow or level which is the limit at which further withdrawals from the
				  surface water or ground water would be significantly harmful to the water
				  resources or ecology of the area.
(12) "Mobile Equipment" means any public,
				  private or commercial automobile, truck, trailer, railroad car, camper, boat,
				  or any other type of similar equipment. The term shall not include sanitation
				  or sludge vehicles or food vending or transporting vehicles.
(13) "Nursery Stock" means all plants, trees,
				  shrubs, vines, bulbs, cuttings, grafts, scions, buds, flowering annual plants,
				  aquatic plants, seeds, corns or tubers, grown or kept for propagation,
				  distribution or sale.
(14) "Odd
				  Numbered Address" means the house address, box number or rural route ending in
				  the numbers 1, 3, 5, 7, 9 or the letters N - Z. Post office box numbers are not
				  included.
(15) "Odd Numbered Days"
				  means the days whose dates end in the numbers 1, 3, 5, 7 or 9. For purposes of
				  this plan, each day will begin at 12:00 a.m.
(16) "Overhead Irrigation" means the use of
				  equipment and devices which deliver water under pressure, through the air,
				  above the level of the plant being irrigated.
(17) "Percent Reduction in Overall Water Use"
				  means the total aggregate reduction from all water uses within a source class,
				  regardless of the type of use or method of withdrawal, which is necessary to
				  reduce estimated present and anticipated water use demand to estimate present
				  and anticipated available water supply.
(18) "Plan" means the water shortage plan
				  authorized in Section
				   373.246, F.S., and contained in
				  this document.
(19) "Reclaimed
				  Water" means water that has received at least secondary treatment and is reused
				  after flowing out of a wastewater treatment facility.
(20) "Recycled Water" means runoff water
				  collected from a site and which is stored for use.
(21) "Reuse" means the deliberate application
				  of reclaimed water, in compliance with the Department of Environmental
				  Regulation and District rules, for a beneficial purpose.
(22) "Source Class" means the specified water
				  resource from which a user is obtaining water either directly or indirectly.
				  Source classes within the District are specified in Rule
				   40A-21.531, F.A.C.
(23) "Traveling Volume Gun" means
				  slow-moving, self-propelled irrigation systems whereby water is projected
				  through nozzles onto a limited portion of a field, and which require manual
				  repositioning after each pass.
(24)
				  "Use Class" means the category describing the purpose for which the user is
				  utilizing water. Use classes within the District are specified in Rule
				   40A-21.551, F.A.C.
(25) "User" means any person or entity which
				  directly or indirectly takes water from the water resource, including uses from
				  private or public utility systems, uses under consumptive use permits issued
				  pursuant to Chapter 40A-2, F.A.C., or uses from individual wells or pumps for
				  domestic or individual home use.
(26) "Water Resource" means any and all water
				  on or beneath the surface of the ground, including, water in natural or
				  artificial water courses, lakes, ponds, impoundments, streams, or diffused
				  surface water and water percolating, standing or flowing beneath the surface of
				  the ground.
(27) "Water Shortage"
				  means that situation within all or part of the District when water resources
				  are insufficient to meet the needs of the users, or when conditions are such
				  that, to protect the water resources of the designated area from serious harm,
				  temporary reductions in use are necessary. A water shortage usually occurs as a
				  result of a drought.
(28) "Water
				  Shortage Emergency" means that situation when provisions under a water shortage
				  declaration are not sufficient to protect the public health, safety, or
				  welfare; the health of animals, fish or aquatic life; a public water supply; or
				  commercial, industrial, agricultural, or other reasonable uses of
				  water.
Rulemaking Authority
						373.044,
						373.113 FS. Law Implemented
						373.175,
						373.246
						FS.
New 3-29-92.