Florida Administrative Code › 62 - DEPARTMENT OF ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION › 62 - Departmental › Chapter 62-555 - PERMITTING, CONSTRUCTION, OPERATION, AND MAINTENANCE OF PUBLIC WATER SYSTEMS › Section 62-555.520 - Applying for Public Water System Construction Permits

Current through Reg. 50, No. 138; July 16, 2024
(1)
				Except as noted in paragraphs (a) through (d) below, a construction permit is
				required for construction or alteration of any public water system component.
(a) No construction permit is required for
				use of point-of-entry (POE) or point-of-use (POU) treatment devices in lieu of
				centralized treatment to comply with a maximum contaminant level as allowed
				under subsection  62-550.340(2),
				F.A.C. However, suppliers of water shall submit a written request to, and
				obtain written approval from, the Department in accordance with subsection
				 62-550.340(2),
				F.A.C., before installing such POE or POU treatment devices. Additionally,
				suppliers of water are responsible for ensuring that such POE or POU treatment
				devices comply with the requirements in subsection
				 62-550.340(2),
				F.A.C.
(b) No construction permit
				is required for the types work or alterations listed in subparagraphs 1.
				through 5., below. However, suppliers of water shall obtain written approval
				from the Department before beginning such work or alterations. Each request for
				approval shall be submitted in writing to the appropriate Department of
				Environmental Protection District Office or Approved County Health Department
				and shall include the following: a description of the scope, purpose, and
				location of the work or alterations; and assurance that the work or alterations
				will comply with applicable requirements in part III of this chapter, including
				applicable requirements in the engineering references listed in Rule
				 62-555.330, F.A.C. Additionally,
				each request for approval to discontinue use of existing drinking water
				treatment facilities, each request for approval to change drinking water
				treatment chemicals, and each request for approval to add tracer chemicals
				shall include assurance of continuing compliance with applicable primary or
				secondary drinking water standards; and each request for approval to conduct
				demonstration testing of existing drinking water treatment facilities that will
				discharge directly to downstream treatment, storage, or distribution facilities
				and each request for approval to construct or install a temporary pilot plant
				that will discharge to a public water system shall include the following:
				technical and reliability information, third-party technology verifications or
				historical study data, and jar test results to provide assurance of continuing
				compliance with applicable primary or secondary drinking water standards during
				times of demonstration testing or pilot plant operation; a plan to monitor at
				least daily for applicable process control parameters and acute contaminants
				and at least weekly for applicable chronic contaminants during times of
				demonstration testing or pilot plant operation; a plan for start-up, normal
				operation, and emergency shutdown of the demonstration testing or pilot plant
				and for emergency flushing of storage and distribution facilities; and a plan
				to properly train operators and to staff the affected drinking water treatment
				plant with a licensed operator during all times of demonstration testing or
				pilot plant operation. Within 30 days after the Department receives a request
				for approval, the Department shall issue written approval of the work or
				alterations described in the request, shall issue written comments asking for
				resubmittal of the request with all information and assurances required under
				this paragraph, or shall issue a written determination that a construction
				permit is required because the work/alterations described in the request is/are
				not of a type listed under this paragraph. The Department shall approve work or
				alterations described in a request for approval if the work/alterations is/are
				of a type listed under this paragraph and if the request includes all
				information and assurances required under this paragraph.
1. Discontinuing use of any existing drinking
				water treatment, pumping, or storage facilities.
2. Changing any type of drinking water
				treatment chemicals other than temporarily converting from chloramines to free
				chlorine (to protect public health during emergency operating conditions or to
				eliminate excess ammonia, oxidize nitrite and nitrifying bacteria, and control
				biofilm in a water distribution system), provided the change in chemicals will
				be made without construction or alteration of any chemical application
				facilities or other drinking water treatment facilities.
3. Temporarily adding any chemical to raw,
				partially treated, or finished drinking water for the purpose of conducting a
				tracer study.
4. Demonstration
				testing of any existing drinking water treatment facilities if the water from
				the facilities being tested will be discharged directly to downstream
				treatment, storage, or distribution facilities (instead of being discharged to
				waste or to upstream treatment facilities for full treatment at no greater than
				the maximum permitted rate).
5.
				Construction or installation of any pilot plant that will discharge water to a
				public water system (instead of discharging water to waste), provided the plant
				will discharge to the water system for no more than three
				months.
(c) No
				construction permit is required for the types of work or alterations listed in
				subparagraphs 1 through 5 below. However, suppliers of water shall submit
				written notification to the Department before beginning such work or
				alterations. Each notification shall be submitted to the appropriate Department
				of Environmental Protection District Office or Approved County Health
				Department and shall include the following: a description of the scope,
				purpose, and location of the work or alterations; and assurance that the work
				or alterations will comply with applicable requirements in part III of this
				chapter, including applicable requirements in the engineering references listed
				in Rule  62-555.330, F.A.C. Suppliers of
				water may begin such work or alterations 14 days after providing notification
				to the Department unless they are advised by the Department that the
				notification is incomplete or that a construction permit is required because
				the work/alterations is/are not of a type listed under this paragraph.
1. Replacement of any existing drinking water
				pumping, storage, or treatment facilities, including chemical application
				facilities and residuals handling facilities, with new facilities of the same
				design and capacity, and at the same general location, as the existing
				facilities.
2. Replacement of any
				existing water main with a new main at the same location as the existing main,
				provided the new main will be either the same size as the existing main, no
				more than two sizes larger than the existing main, or no larger than the
				minimum size required or recommended in
Recommended Standards for Water
				Works
as incorporated into Rule
				 62-555.330, F.A.C.
3. Relocation of any existing water main to
				accommodate other utilities, provided the length of main being moved at each
				location will be no more than 100 linear feet.
4. Alteration, excluding maintenance or
				repair, of any structures that are not used to treat, store, or handle drinking
				water, drinking water treatment chemicals, or drinking water treatment
				residuals but that are used to house drinking water pumping or treatment
				facilities, including chemical application facilities and residuals handling
				facilities.
5. Installation or
				alteration, excluding maintenance or repair, of any alarm equipment required
				under part III of this chapter.
(d) No construction permit is required for
				the types of work or alterations listed in subparagraphs 1. through 13., below.
				However, suppliers of water are responsible for ensuring that such
				work/alterations complies/comply with applicable requirements in part III of
				this chapter, including applicable requirements in the engineering references
				listed in Rule  62-555.330, F.A.C. Additionally,
				suppliers of water are responsible for notifying others about emergency or
				abnormal operating conditions, planned conversions from free chlorine to
				chloramines or vice versa, and planned maintenance or repair work as required
				under subsection  62-555.350(10),
				F.A.C.
1. Discontinuing use of any existing
				water main.
2. Temporarily
				converting from chloramines to free chlorine to protect public health during
				emergency operating conditions or to eliminate excess ammonia, oxidize nitrite
				and nitrifying bacteria, and control biofilm in a water distribution
				system.
3. Demonstration testing of
				any existing drinking water treatment facilities if the water from the
				facilities being tested will be discharged to waste or to upstream treatment
				facilities for full treatment at no greater than the maximum permitted rate
				(instead of being discharged directly to downstream treatment, storage, or
				distribution facilities).
4.
				Construction or installation of any pilot plant that will discharge water to
				waste (instead of discharging water to a public water system).
5. Any maintenance or repair work.
6. Construction or alteration of any roads,
				landscaping, or fencing.
7.
				Construction or alteration of any structures that are not used to treat, store,
				or handle drinking water, drinking water treatment chemicals, or drinking water
				treatment residuals and that are not used to house drinking water pumping or
				treatment facilities, including chemical application facilities and residuals
				handling facilities.
8.
				Installation or alteration of any well vent.
9. Any electrical work that does not affect
				compliance with part III of this chapter, including installation or alteration
				of auxiliary power sources for water systems not subject to the standby power
				requirements in part III of this chapter.
10. Any instrumentation work that does not
				affect compliance with part III of this chapter, including installation or
				alteration of chlorination or hypochlorination alarm equipment where such
				equipment is not required under part III of this chapter and including
				installation or alteration of power failure alarm equipment for water systems
				not subject to the standby power requirements in part III of this
				chapter.
11. Installation or
				alteration of any valve, flow meter, or backflow preventer.
12. Installation or alteration of any fire
				hydrant or hydrant lead.
13.
				Installation or alteration of any water service line to a single building,
				including any water service line dedicated exclusively to a fire protection or
				irrigation system serving a single building or its
				premises.