Florida Administrative Code › 62 - DEPARTMENT OF ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION › 62 - Departmental › Chapter 62-40 - WATER RESOURCE IMPLEMENTATION RULE › Section 62-40.210 - Definitions

Current through Reg. 50, No. 138; July 16, 2024
When used in this chapter and in the review of rules of the
				  Districts pursuant to Section
				   373.114(2),
				  F.S., unless the context or content of such District rule requires a narrower,
				  more specific meaning, the following words shall mean:
(1) "Aquifer" shall mean a geologic
				formation, group of formations, or part of a formation that contains sufficient
				saturated permeable material to yield useful quantities of ground water to
				wells, springs or surface water.
(2) "Basin Management Action Plan" means the
				document that sets forth the activities, schedule, and funding sources by which
				point and nonpoint dischargers will reduce pollutants discharged to impaired
				waters and meet the total maximum daily load established for those
				waters.
(3) "Conservation rate
				structure" means a schedule of utility water rates designed to promote
				efficient use of water by providing economic incentives.
(4) "Consumptive use means any use of water
				which reduces the supply from which it is withdrawn or diverted.
(5) "Department" means the Department of
				Environmental Protection.
(6)
				"Designated use" means the present and future most beneficial use of a body of
				water pursuant to the water quality classification system in Rule
				 62-302.400, F.A.C.
(7) "Detention" means the delay of stormwater
				runoff prior to its discharge.
(8)
				"District" means a water management district created pursuant to Section
				 373.069, F.S.
(9) "District Water Management Plan" is
				defined in Section  373.019, F.S.
(10) "Drought rate structure" means an
				element of a utility rate structure intended to provide an economic incentive
				to reduce water use during times of drought.
(11) "Floodplain" means land area subject to
				inundation by flood waters from a river, watercourse, lake, or coastal waters.
				Floodplains are delineated according to their estimated frequency of
				flooding.
(12) "Florida Water Plan"
				is defined in Section
				 373.019, F.S.
(13) "Governing Board" means the governing
				board of a water management district created under Section
				 373.069, F.S.
(14) "Ground water" means water beneath the
				surface of the ground, whether or not flowing through known and definite
				channels.
(15) "Ground water basin"
				means a ground water flow system that has defined boundaries and may include
				permeable materials that are capable of storing or furnishing a significant
				water supply. The basin includes both the surface area and the permeable
				materials beneath it.
(16) "High
				recharge areas" means areas contributing significant volumes of water which add
				to the storage and flow of an aquifer through vertical movement from the land
				surface. The term significant will vary geographically depending on the
				hydrologic characteristics of that aquifer.
(17) "Informative billing" means a system of
				providing water utility customers with useful information on the relationship
				between the amount of water they use and the cost associated with that use.
				Examples of the information include the utility's rate structure, amount of
				water used in the current month, amount of water used in the previous month,
				amount of water used in the same month of the previous year, information on the
				average usage of all customers in the same customer class, seasonal rates and
				applicable months, drought rates, information on conserving water, or other
				information deemed appropriate by the utility.
(18) "Impact Offset" is defined in Section
				 373.250, F.S.
(19) "Impaired water" means a water body or
				water body segment that does not meet one or more of its designated uses due in
				whole or in part to discharges of pollutants, and has been listed as impaired
				by order of the Secretary in accordance with the procedures set forth in
				Chapter 62-303, F.A.C.
(20)
				"Natural systems" for the purpose of this rule means an ecological system
				supporting aquatic and wetland-dependent natural resources, including fish and
				aquatic and wetland-dependent wildlife habitat.
(21) "Pollutant load reduction goal, " or
				PLRG, means estimated numeric reductions in pollutant loadings, usually
				established in a Surface Water Improvement and Management or other watershed
				management plan, that are needed to preserve or restore designated uses of
				receiving bodies of water and maintain water quality consistent with applicable
				state water quality standards. In some cases, PLRGs may provide the scientific
				basis for the development of a Total Maximum Daily Load.
(22) "Potable quality water offset" means the
				amount of potable quality water (Class F-I, G-I, or G-II ground water or water
				meeting drinking water standards) saved through the use of reclaimed water
				expressed as a percentage of the total reclaimed water used. The potable
				quality water offset is calculated by dividing the amount of potable water
				saved by the amount of reclaimed water used and multiplying the quotient by
				100.
(23) "Prime recharge areas"
				means areas that are generally within high recharge areas and are significant
				to present and future ground water uses including protection and maintenance of
				natural systems and water supply.
(24) "Reasonable-beneficial use" is defined
				in Section  373.019, F.S.
(25) "Recharge fraction" means the portion of
				reclaimed water used in a reuse system that recharges an underlying potable
				quality ground water (Class F-I, G-I, or G-II ground water) that is used for
				potable supply, or augments a Class I surface water, expressed as a percentage
				of the total reclaimed water used.
(26) "Reclaimed water, " except as
				specifically provided in Chapter 62-610, F.A.C., means water that has received
				at least secondary treatment and basic disinfection, and is reused after
				flowing out of a domestic wastewater treatment facility.
(27) "Regional water supply plan" is defined
				in Section  373.019, F.S.
(28) "Retention" means the prevention of
				stormwater runoff from direct discharge.
(29) "Reuse" means the deliberate application
				of reclaimed water, in compliance with Department and District rules, for a
				beneficial purpose.
(30) "Reuse
				Utility" means a utility that produces reclaimed water or distributes reclaimed
				water to end users.
(31) "Seasonal
				rate structure" means a utility water rate structure in which the amount
				charged per unit of water increases during the peak demand season.
(32) "Secretary" means the Secretary of the
				Department of Environmental Protection.
(33) "State water quality standards" means
				water quality standards adopted by the Environmental Regulation Commission
				pursuant to Chapter 403, F.S., including standards composed of designated most
				beneficial uses (classification of waters), the numerical and narrative
				criteria applied to the specific water use or classification, the Florida
				anti-degradation policy (Rules
				 62-4.242 and
				 62-302.300, F.A.C.), and the
				moderating provisions contained in Chapters 62-4, 62-302, 62-520, and 62-550,
				F.A.C.
(34) "Stormwater" means the
				water that results from a rainfall event.
(35) "Stormwater management program" is
				defined in Section  403.031, F.S.
(36) "Stormwater management system" is
				defined in Section  373.403, F.S.
(37) "Stormwater recycling" means capturing
				stormwater for irrigation or other beneficial use.
(38) "Stormwater utility" is defined in
				Section  403.031, F.S.
(39) "Substitution credit" means the use of
				reclaimed water to replace all or a portion of an existing permitted use of
				resource-limited surface water or groundwater, allowing a different user or use
				to initiate a withdrawal or increase its withdrawal from the same
				resource-limited surface water or groundwater source provided that the
				withdrawal creates no net adverse impact on the limited water resource or
				creates a net positive impact if required by district rule as part of a
				strategy to protect or recover a water resource.
(40) "Supplementation of a reclaimed water
				system" or "supplementation" means the addition of water by a reuse utility
				from another source to reclaimed water supplies.
(41) "Surface water" is defined in Section
				 373.019, F.S.
(42) "Total maximum daily load, " or TMDL, is
				defined in Section  403.031, F.S.
(43) "Water resource caution area" means a
				geographic area identified by a District as having existing water resource
				problems or an area in which water resource problems are projected to develop
				during the next twenty years.
(44)
				"Water" or "waters in the state" is defined in Section
				 373.019, F.S.
(45) "Watershed" is defined in Section
				 373.403, F.S.
(46) "Watershed management goal" means an
				overall goal for the management of water resources within a
				watershed.
Rulemaking Authority
					 373.026(7),
					 373.036,
					 373.043,
					 373.171 FS. Law Implemented
					 373.019,
					 373.023,
					 373.026,
					 373.036,
					 373.0395,
					 373.042,
					 373.0421,
					 373.046,
					 373.047,
					 373.103,
					 373.106,
					 373.114,
					 373.145,
					 373.171,
					 373.175,
					 373.203,
					 373.223,
					 373.246,
					 373.250,
					 373.403,
					 373.418,
					 373.451,
					 373.453,
					 403.031,
					 403.0615(3),
					 403.064,
					 403.067,
					 403.0891
					 FS.
New 5-5-81, Formerly 17-40.02, Amended 12-5-88, Formerly
					 17-40.020, Amended 8-14-90, 12-17-91, Formerly 17-40.210, Amended 7-20-95,
					 5-7-05, 5-6-13, 5-3-14.