Florida Administrative Code › 62 - DEPARTMENT OF ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION › 62 - Departmental › Chapter 62-604 - COLLECTION SYSTEMS AND TRANSMISSION FACILITIES › Section 62-604.200 - Definitions

Current through Reg. 50, No. 138; July 16, 2024
Terms used in this rule shall have the meaning specified
				  below. The meaning of any term not defined below may be taken from definitions
				  in other rules of the Department, unless such meaning would defeat the purposes
				  or intent of Chapter 62-604, F.A.C.
(1) "Alternative collection/transmission
				systems" means those systems referenced in paragraphs
				 62-604.300(5)(b), (c), and
				(j), F.A.C., or other collection/transmission
				systems not comprised of strictly conventional gravity sewers, pump stations,
				and force mains.
(2)
				"Collection/transmission systems" means sewers, pipelines, conduits, pumping
				stations, force mains, and all other facilities used for collection and
				transmission of wastewater from individual service connections to facilities
				intended for the purpose of providing treatment prior to release to the
				environment.
(3) "Delegated local
				program" means any county, municipality, or combination thereof that has
				established and administers a pollution control program approved by the
				Department in compliance with Section
				 403.182, F.S., as
				amended.
(4) "Department" means the
				State of Florida Department of Environmental Protection, or delegated local
				program, where applicable.
(5)
				"District office" means the regional district offices of the
				Department.
(6) "Domestic
				wastewater" means wastewater derived principally from dwellings, business
				buildings, institutions, and the like, commonly referred to as sanitary
				wastewater or sewage. When industrial wastewater is combined with domestic
				wastewater for treatment, determination of whether the treatment plant is
				designated as domestic shall be in accordance with the definition of domestic
				wastewater provided in Rule
				 62-600.200, F.A.C.
(7) "Individual service connection" means the
				sewer which connects the point(s) at which wastewater leaves a building which
				is its source and the point at which it enters a collection system.
(8) "Infiltration" means groundwater that
				enters a collection/transmission system, including service connections, through
				defective pipes, pipe joints, connections, service connections, manholes, or
				pump stations. Infiltration does not include, and is distinguished from inflow.
				Infiltration is generally observed during seasonally high ground water
				conditions.
(9) "Inflow" means
				surface water and stormwater that enters a collection/transmission system,
				including service connections, from sources such as roof leaders, cellar
				drains, yard drains, area drains, drains from wet areas, foundation drains,
				cross connections between storm sewers and sanitary sewers, catch basins,
				stormwater, surface rounoff, manhole covers, or drainage. Inflow does not
				include permitted industrial discharges into the collection system or the
				intentional introduction of water into a collection system to supplement
				reclaimed water supplies. Inflow does not include, and is distinguished from,
				infiltration. Inflow is generally observed during wet weather as well as in
				coastal communities during some high tide flooding events.
(10) "Leakage" or "exfiltration" means
				wastewater that leaks into surrounding soil from deteriorated, poorly designed,
				poorly constructed, or otherwise defective collection/transmission systems
				including from service connections, pipes, manholes, and pump
				stations.
(11) "Modification" means
				any alteration, expansion, upgrade, extension, replacement of, or addition to
				an existing wastewater facility or activity.
(12) "Permittee" means the owner, operator or
				other entity to which a permit for a wastewater facility or activity is issued
				by the Department. The term "permittee" shall be functionally synonymous with
				the terms "owner, " "contractor, " or "licensee, " but shall not include
				licensed individuals, such as State certified operators, unless they are the
				persons to whom a facility permit is issued by the Department. The term shall
				extend to a permit "applicant" for purposes of this chapter.
(13) "Private drinking water supply well"
				means a well serving a private or multifamily water system as defined in Rule
				 62-532.200, F.A.C.
(14) "Public drinking water supply well"
				means a well serving a public water system as defined in Rule
				 62-550.200, F.A.C., or a well
				serving a limited use commercial public water system or limited use community
				public water system as defined in Rule
				 62-532.200, F.A.C.
(15) "Sanitary sewer overflow" means any
				overflow, spill, release, discharge, or diversion of wastewater from a domestic
				wastewater collection/transmission system.
(16) "Satellite collection system" means a
				collection/transmission system owned or operated by an entity other than the
				entity that owns the wastewater treatment facility.
(17) "Treatment" means any method, technique,
				or process which changes the physical, chemical, or biological character or
				composition of wastewater and thereby reduces its potential for polluting
				waters of the state.
(18)
				"Wastewater" means the combination of liquid and water-carried pollutants from
				residences, commercial buildings, industrial plants, and institutions together
				with any groundwater, surface runoff or leachate that may be present.
(19) "Wastewater facility" or "facility"
				means any facility which discharges wastes into waters of the State or which
				can reasonably be expected to be a source of water pollution and includes any
				or all of the following: the collection and transmission system, the wastewater
				treatment works, the reuse or disposal system, and the biosolids management
				facility.
(20) "Waters" shall be as
				defined in Section  403.031,
				F.S.
Rulemaking Authority
					 403.061,
					 403.087 FS. Law Implemented
					 403.021,
					 403.061,
					 403.062,
					 403.085,
					 403.086,
					 403.087,
					 403.088
					 FS.
New 11-27-89, Amended 6-4-92, Formerly 17-604.200, Amended
					 12-26-96, 11-6-03, 10-4-21.