Connecticut Administrative Code › Title 19 - Public Health and Safety › 13-B › Chapter II - ENVIRONMENTAL HEALTH › On-Site Sewage Disposal Systems with Design Flows of 5,000 Gallons per Day or Less and Non-Discharging Toilet Systems › Section 19-13-B103b - Definitions

Current through July 10, 2024
The following definitions shall apply for the purposes of
					 Sections
					 19-13-B103c to
					 19-13-B103f,
					 inclusive:
(a) "Sewage" means domestic
				  sewage consisting of water and human excretions or other waterborne wastes
				  incidental to the occupancy of a residential building or a non-residential
				  building, as may be detrimental to the public health or the environment, but
				  not including manufacturing process water, cooling water, waste water from
				  water softening equipment, blow down from heating or cooling equipment, water
				  from cellar or floor drains or surface water from roofs, paved surface or yard
				  drains.
(b) "Septic tank" means a
				  water-tight receptacle which is used for the treatment of sewage and is
				  designed and constructed so as to permit the settling of solids, the digestion
				  of organic matter by detention and the discharge of the liquid portion to a
				  leaching system;
(c) "Subsurface
				  sewage disposal system" means a system consisting of a house sewer; a septic
				  tank followed by a leaching system, any necessary pumps and siphons, and any
				  ground water control system on which the operation of the leaching system is
				  dependent.
(d) "Residential
				  building" means any house, apartment, trailer or mobile home, or other
				  structure occupied by individuals permanently or temporarily as a dwelling
				  place but not including residential institutions;
(e) "Residential institution" means any
				  institutional or commercial building occupied by individuals permanently or
				  temporarily as a dwelling, including dormitories, boarding houses, hospitals,
				  nursing homes, jails, and residential hotels or motels;
(f) "Nonresidential building" means any
				  commercial, industrial, institutional, public or other building not occupied as
				  a dwelling, including transient hotels and motels;
(g) "Impervious soil" means soil that has a
				  minimum percolation rate slower than one inch in sixty minutes when the ground
				  water level is at least eighteen inches below the bottom of the percolation
				  test hole;
(h) "Suitable soil"
				  means soil having a minimum percolation rate of one inch in one to sixty
				  minutes when the ground water level is at least eighteen inches below the
				  bottom of the percolation test hole;
(i) "Maximum ground water level" means the
				  level to which ground water rises for a duration of one month or longer during
				  the wettest season of the year;
(j)
				  "Open watercourse" means a well defined surface channel, produced wholly or in
				  part by a definite flow of water and through which water flows continuously or
				  intermittently and includes any ditch, canal, aquaduct or other artificial
				  channel for the conveyance of water to or away from a given place, but not
				  including gutters for storm drainage formed as an itegral part of a paved
				  roadway; or any lake, pond, or other surface body of water, fresh or tidal; or
				  other surface area intermittently or permanently covered with water.
(k) "Local director of health" means the
				  local director of health or his authorized agent;
(l) "Technical Standards" means the standards
				  established by the commissioner of health services in the most recent revision
				  of the publication entitled "Technical Standards for Subsurface Sewage Disposal
				  Systems" available from the State Department of Health Services;
(m) "Department" means the State Department
				  of Health Services;
(n) "Gray
				  water" means domestic sewage containing no fecal material or toilet
				  wastes.
(o) "Drawdown area" means
				  the area adjacent to a well in which the water table is lowered by withdrawal
				  of water from the well by pumping at a rate not exceeding the recharge rate of
				  the aquifer.