Florida Administrative Code › 40 - WATER MANAGEMENT DISTRICTS › 40A - Northwest Florida Water Management District › Chapter 40A-3 - REGULATION OF WELLS › Section 40A-3.021 - Definitions

Current through Reg. 50, No. 138; July 16, 2024
The following words and phrases, when used in these rules,
				  shall have the following meanings, except where the context clearly indicates a
				  different meaning:
(1) "Abandonment"
				means the act, whether intentional or unintentional, of allowing a well to
				attain the condition of an abandoned well.
(2) "Abandoned Well" means a well the use of
				which has been permanently discontinued. Any well shall be deemed abandoned
				which is in such a state of disrepair, as determined by a representative of the
				District, that continued use for the purpose of obtaining ground water or
				disposing of water or liquid wastes is impracticable.
(3) "Aesthetic Use" means the use of water
				for fountains, waterfalls, and landscape lakes and ponds where such uses are
				ornamental and decorative.
(4)
				"Agricultural Irrigation Use" means the use of water for the commercial
				production of crops or the growing of farm products, including vegetables,
				citrus, pasture, nursery stock, turf grass, and sod.
(5) "Annulus" or "Annular Space" means any
				artificially created void existing between a well casing or liner pipe and a
				borehole wall.
(6) "Aquacultural
				Use" includes the use of water for spawning, cultivating, harvesting, or
				marketing of fin-fish, shellfish, crustaceans, frogs, turtles, and other
				aquatic organisms that have a sport or other economic value.
(7) "Aquifer" means a subsurface geologic
				unit capable of yielding significant quantities of water to wells and
				springs.
(8) "Aquifer Restoration
				Well" means a well used for the withdrawal of water for the purpose of
				recovering contaminant(s) to restore or improve the quality of the water within
				an aquifer.
(9) "Artificial
				Recharge" means the intentional introduction of water into any underground
				formation by means of a recharge or injection well.
(10) "Artificial Recharge Facility" means any
				facility constructed for the intentional introduction of water into any
				underground formation.
(11) "Board"
				means the Governing Board of the Northwest Florida Water Management
				District.
(12) "Certified Receipt"
				means the date and time an application for a permit is stamped as received in
				the District office.
(13)
				"Commercial Use" includes small businesses and facilities in which water is the
				prime ingredient of the service rendered, such as a car wash and
				laundromat.
(14) "Contractor" means
				any person licensed in accordance with Chapter 62-531, F.A.C., and engaged in
				the business of construction, repair, or abandonment of wells.
(15) "Department" means the Department of
				Environmental Protection (DEP) or its successor agency or agencies.
(16) "Domestic Self Supply Use" means the use
				of water for household purposes such as drinking, bathing, cooking, sanitation,
				or cleaning, which occurs in a private residence, and includes no more than one
				rental residence or no more than four nonrental residences served by one
				well.
(17) "Dewatering Use" means
				the removal of water from a specific area to facilitate mining or
				construction.
(18) "District" means
				the Northwest Florida Water Management District operating under the authority
				of Chapter 373, F.S.
(19)
				"Diversion and Impoundment into Non-District Facilities Use" means the
				diversion or extraction of water into non-District impoundments and delivery
				systems designed for such purposes as maintaining structural integrity,
				providing agricultural water and other non-recreational, non-aesthetic
				use.
(20) "Drive Shoe" means any
				device specifically designed, fabricated, and installed to protect the bottom
				end of a water well casing or liner pipe from collapse or other damage while
				the casing or liner pipe is being driven into place in a well.
(21) "Essential Use" includes the use of
				water strictly for fire-fighting purposes, health and medical purposes, and the
				use of water to satisfy federal, state, or local public health and safety
				requirements.
(22) "Freeze
				Protection" includes the periodic and infrequent use of water to protect
				agricultural and nursery crops from permanent damage due to low
				temperatures.
(23) "Golf Course
				Irrigation Use" is the use of water to irrigate golf courses.
(24) "Grout" means a mixture consisting of
				water and Portland cement (American Concrete Institute type I or American
				Concrete Institute type III), sand and Portland cement mixed at three parts
				sand to one part cement by weight, or other approved types of cement and
				acceptable amounts of those additives approved by the District for use in
				cement grouts. The use of alternative methods or materials shall not cause
				degradation of the water resource. Grout composition shall not exceed six (6)
				gallons of water per cubic foot or sack of cement.
(25) "Heating or Cooling Use" means the use
				of water for heating, air-conditioning, or other cooling uses.
(26) "Industrial Use" includes those many
				uses wherein the water serves the purposes of manufacturing, commerce, trade or
				industry.
(27) "Injection Well"
				means a well for the express purpose of introducing under pressure any water
				into underground formations. This includes return wells for air conditioning
				systems and injection of water under pressure into underground formations for
				the possible purpose of storage and later recovery.
(28) "Landscape Irrigation Use" is the
				outside watering of plants, shrubs, grass, trees, and other such flora in
				landscapes surrounding homes, non-commercial house-hold gardens, industrial
				buildings, parks, recreational areas, cemeteries, public right-of-ways, and
				medians.
(29) "Livestock and Other
				Animals Use" includes water for drinking by or washing of livestock, including
				zoo animals.
(30) "Mining Use"
				includes use wherein the water is applied for the extraction, transportation,
				or processing of minerals.
(31)
				"Navigation Use" means water discharged from ground or surface sources either
				to tide water or to downstream lakes or reaches of rivers or canals for the
				purpose of permitting or protecting boating activity.
(32) "Nursery Irrigation Use" (Non
				agricultural) is the use of water on premises on or in which nursery stock is
				held for sale, distribution or is sold or reshipped. This term does not apply
				to water used for production of nursery stock.
(33) "Other Outside Use" means the use of
				water outdoors for dust control, maintenance, cleaning, and washing of
				structures and mobile equipment, including automobiles and the washing of
				streets, driveways, sidewalks, and similar areas.
(34) "Limited Use Public Supply" means the
				use of water in public water systems not covered under the definitions of
				Domestic Self Supply use or Public Water Supply Use of this section, and which
				is further defined as either:
(a) "Limited Use
				Commercial Public Water Systems Use" means the use of water by one or more
				nonresidential establishments; or
(b) "Limited Use Community Public Water
				System Use" means the use of water by five or more private residences or two or
				more rental residences.