Illinois Administrative Code › Title 77 - PUBLIC HEALTH › Part 900 - DRINKING WATER SYSTEMS CODE › Section 900.10 - Definitions

Current through Register Vol. 48, No. 28, July 12, 2024
"Applicant" means any person making application for a permit to
				construct or alter a public water system.
"Cistern" means a source of water supply developed by
				intercepting rainfall with roof surfaces.
"Contaminant" means any physical, chemical, biological or
				radiological substance or matter in water.
"CT" means the product of the chlorine residual and chlorine
				contact time at the point of treatment required for 99.9 percent or 3-log
				inactivation of Giardia lamblia cysts.
"Department" means the Illinois Department of Public
				Health.
"Filtration" means a process for removing particulate matter
				from water by passing through porous media.
"Groundwater Under the Influence" means surface water or water
				obtained from a well or a collector that is not in compliance with the Illinois
				Water Well Construction Code.
"Illinois Environmental Protection Act" means 415 ILCS
				5.
"Illinois Water Well Construction Code means 415 ILCS 30. The
				rules implementing this statute are at 77 Ill. Adm. Code 920 (Water Well
				Construction Code).
"Maximum Contaminant Level" or "MCL" means the maximum
				permissible level of contaminant in water that is delivered to the free flowing
				outlet of the ultimate user of a public water system, except in the case of
				turbidity, in which the maximum permissible level is measured at the point of
				entry to the distribution system. Contaminants added to the water under
				circumstances controlled by the user are excluded from this definition.
"Monitoring Assessment" means an assessment conducted in
				response to a monitoring violation to:
determine the cause of the monitoring violation;
require systems to collect replacement samples for any missed
				routine, repeat, additional routine or clearance sample; and
prevent monitoring violations from occurring in the
				future.
"Non-Transient Non-Community System" means a non-community
				water system that regularly serves the same 25 or more persons at least 6
				months a year.
"On-site Assessment" means an assessment of the water system
				that is conducted by the Department, or by a third party approved by the
				Department, to evaluate minimum elements that include:
review and identification of inadequacies in sample sites;
				sampling protocol;
sample processing;
atypical events that could affect distributed water quality or
				indicate that distributed water quality was impaired;
changes in distribution system maintenance and operation that
				could affect distributed water quality (including water storage);
source and treatment considerations that bear on distributed
				water quality, when appropriate (e.g., small ground water systems); and
existing water quality monitoring data.
The assessment must be consistent with assessment elements
				regarding the size and type of the system and the size, type and
				characteristics of the distribution system.
"Operating Season" means a defined time period during the year
				when a water system is providing water to the public.
"Person" means any individual, group of individuals,
				association, trust, partnership, corporation, person doing business under an
				assumed name, county, municipality, the State of Illinois or any political
				subdivision or department thereof, or any other entity.
"Potential Primary Source" means any unit at a facility
				or site not currently subject to a removal or remedial action
				that:
is utilized for the treatment, storage, or disposal of
				any hazardous or special waste not generated at the site;
is utilized for the disposal of municipal waste not
				generated at the site, other than landscape waste and construction and
				demolition debris;
is utilized for the landfilling, land treating, surface
				impounding or piling of any hazardous or special waste that is generated on the
				site or at other sites owned, controlled or operated by the same person;
				or
stores or accumulates at any time more than 75,000
				pounds above ground, or more than 7,500 pounds below ground, of any hazardous
				substances.
[415 ILCS
				5/3.59]
"Potential Route" means abandoned and improperly
				plugged wells of all kinds, drainage wells, all injection wells, including
				closed loop heat pump wells, and any excavation for the discovery, development
				or production of stone, sand or gravel.
[415 ILCS
				5/3.58]
"Potential Secondary Source" means any unit at a
				facility or a site not currently subject to a removal or remedial action, other
				than a potential primary source, that:
is utilized for the landfilling, land treating, or
				surface impounding of waste that is generated on the site or at other sites
				owned, controlled or operated by the same person, other than livestock and
				landscape waste, and construction and demolition debris
;
stores or accumulates at any time more than 25,000 but
				not more than 75,000 pounds above ground, or more than 2,500 but not more than
				7,500 pounds below ground, of any hazardous substances
;
stores or accumulates at any time more than 25,000
				gallons above ground, or more than 500 gallons below ground, of petroleum,
				including crude oil or any fraction thereof that is not otherwise specifically
				listed or designated as a hazardous substance
;
stores or accumulates pesticides, fertilizers, or road
				oils for purposes of commercial application or for distribution to retail sales
				outlets; or stores or accumulates at any time more than 50,000 pounds of any
				de-icing agent
;
or
is utilized for handling livestock waste or for
				treating domestic wastewaters other than private sewage disposal systems as
				defined in the Private Sewage Disposal Licensing Act
. [415 ILCS
				5/3.60]
"Public Water System" or "PWS" means a system for the provision
				to the public of piped water for human consumption, if the system has at least
				15 service connections or regularly serves an average of at least 25
				individuals daily at least 60 days per year. The term public water system
				includes any collection, treatment, storage and distribution facilities under
				control of the operator of the system and used primarily in connection with
				that system and any collection or pretreatment storage facilities not under the
				operator's control that are used primarily in connection with the
				system.
"Community Water System" means a public water system that
				serves at least 15 service connections used by residents or regularly serves at
				least 25 residents for at least 60 days a year.
"Non-Community Water System" means a public water system that
				is not a community water system and that has at least 15 service connections
				used by non-residents, or regularly serves 25 or more non-resident individuals
				daily for at least 60 days a year, and shall include vending machines.
"Sanitary Survey" means an on-site inspection of the water
				source, facilities, equipment, operation, and maintenance of a public water
				system for the purpose of evaluating their adequacy for producing and
				distributing safe drinking water.
"Seasonal System" means a non-community water system that is
				not operated as a public water system on a year-round basis and starts up and
				shuts down at the beginning and end of each operating season.
"Service Connection" means the opening, including all fittings
				and appurtenances, at the water main through which water is supplied to the
				user.
"Slow Sand Filtration" means a process involving passage of raw
				water through a bed of sand at low velocity resulting in substantial
				particulate removal by physical and biological mechanisms.
"State" means the State of Illinois, Illinois Department of
				Public Health or the Illinois Environmental Protection Agency, as
				appropriate.
"Surface Water" means all water that is open to the atmosphere
				and subject to surface runoff.
"Supplier of Water" or "Supplier" means any person who owns or
				operates a public water system.
"Vending Machine" means a device that provides treatment and/or
				dispenses a specific amount of water after money has been inserted into the
				device or after the water has been purchased.
"Waterborne Disease Outbreak" means the significant occurrence
				of acute infectious illness, epidemiologically associated with the ingestion of
				water from a non-community public water system.
"Water Well Construction Code" means the DPH rules at 77 Ill.
				Adm. Code 920. The underlying statute for these rules is 415 ILCS 30 (Illinois
				Water Well Construction Code).