Florida Administrative Code › 62 - DEPARTMENT OF ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION › 62 - Departmental › Chapter 62-555 - PERMITTING, CONSTRUCTION, OPERATION, AND MAINTENANCE OF PUBLIC WATER SYSTEMS › Section 62-555.348 - Planning for Expansion of Public Water System Source, Treatment, or Storage Facilities

Current through Reg. 50, No. 138; July 16, 2024
This section applies to all community water systems serving,
				  or designed to serve, 350 or more persons or 150 or more service
				  connections.
(1) Suppliers of water
				shall provide for the timely planning, design, permitting, and construction of
				necessary public water system source, treatment, or storage
				facilities.
(2) Suppliers of water
				shall routinely compare the total net quantity of finished drinking water
				produced each day by their treatment plant(s) with the total permitted
				maximum-day operating capacity of their plant(s). The permitted maximum-day
				operating capacity of each plant shall be as specified in the latest Department
				of Environmental Protection (DEP) construction permit concerning source water
				or treatment facilities for the plant. In cases where no permitted maximum-day
				operating capacity has been specified in the latest DEP construction permit
				concerning source water or treatment facilities for a plant, the Department
				shall establish the permitted maximum-day operating capacity of the plant based
				upon information that is included in or with pertinent permit applications or
				that is provided by the supplier of water and based upon design requirements in
				Part III of this chapter, including design requirements in the engineering
				references listed in Rule
				 62-555.330, F.A.C.
(3) When the total maximum-day quantity of
				finished water produced by all treatment plants connected to a water system,
				including water produced to meet any fire-flow demand but excluding water
				produced to meet any demand that the supplier of water documents to be highly
				unusual and nonrecurring, exceeds 75 percent of the total permitted maximum-day
				operating capacity of the plants, the supplier of water shall submit
				source/treatment/storage capacity analysis reports to the Department according
				to the schedule described in paragraphs (a) and (b), below; however, in no case
				shall it be necessary to submit more than one report annually. The reports
				shall be submitted to the appropriate Department of Environmental Protection
				District Office or Approved County Health Department.
(a) The initial report shall be submitted
				within six months after the month in which the total maximum-day quantity of
				finished water produced by the treatment plant(s) first exceeds 75 percent of
				the total permitted maximum-day operating capacity of the plant(s) or by August
				28, 2004, whichever occurs later.
(b) Updated reports shall be submitted as
				follows:
1. If the initial report or the
				latest updated report indicates that maximum-day water demand (including
				fire-flow demand if fire protection is being provided) at build-out will not
				exceed the total permitted maximum-day operating capacity of the treatment
				plant(s) and that finished-water storage need (including fire storage if fire
				protection is being provided) at build-out will not exceed the existing total
				useful finished-water storage capacity, no additional report is
				required.
2. If the initial report
				or the latest updated report indicates that maximum-day water demand (including
				fire-flow demand if fire protection is being provided) will not exceed the
				total permitted maximum-day operating capacity of the treatment plant(s) for at
				least ten years and that finished-water storage need (including fire storage if
				fire protection is being provided) will not exceed the existing total useful
				finished-water storage capacity for at least ten years, the next updated report
				shall be submitted within five years after submittal of the previous
				report.
3. If the initial report or
				the latest updated report indicates that maximum-day water demand (including
				fire-flow demand if fire protection is being provided) will exceed the total
				permitted maximum-day operating capacity of the treatment plant(s) in less than
				ten years but greater than or equal to five years or that finished-water
				storage need (including fire storage if fire protection is being provided) will
				exceed the existing total useful finished-water storage capacity in less than
				ten years but greater than or equal to five years, the next updated report
				shall be submitted within two years after submittal of the previous
				report.
4. If the initial report or
				the latest updated report indicates that maximum-day water demand (including
				fire-flow demand if fire protection is being provided) will exceed the total
				permitted maximum-day operating capacity of the treatment plant(s) in less than
				five years or that finished-water storage need (including fire storage if fire
				protection is being provided) will exceed the existing total useful
				finished-water storage capacity in less than five years, the next updated
				report shall be submitted within one year after submittal of the previous
				report.