Code of Massachusetts Regulations › 314 CMR - DIVISION OF WATER POLLUTION CONTROL › Title 314 CMR 20.00 - Reclaimed Water Permit Program And Standards › Section 20.02 - Definitions

Current through Register 1525, July 5, 2024
As used in
				314 CMR 20.00, the following
				words have the following meaning:
Aquifer
- a geological formation,
				group of formations or part of a formation that is capable of yielding a
				significant amount of water to a well or spring.
Best Management Practices or BMPs
-
				schedules of activities, prohibitions of practices, maintenance procedures and
				other management practices to prevent or reduce the discharge of pollutants to
				waters of the Commonwealth. BMPs include treatment requirements, operating
				procedures, structures, devices and/or practices to control plant site runoff,
				spillage, or leaks, sludge or waste disposal or drainage from raw material
				storage.
Bypass
- the diversion of wastes from
				any portion of a treatment works.
Cross Connection
- any actual or
				potential physical connection or arrangement between a pipe conveying potable
				water from a public water system and any non-potable water supply piping
				arrangement or equipment, including, but not limited to, waste pipe, soil pipe,
				sewer, drain or other sources of potable water not approved by the Department
				as a source for a public water system. For purposes of
				314 CMR 20.00, a cross
				connection shall also include a physical connection between the reclaimed water
				system and any interior or exterior pipes conveying reclaimed water and a
				potable water system and any interior or exterior pipes conveying water for
				drinking, domestic or culinary purposes including pipes conveying water from a
				private water supply well.
Department
- the Massachusetts
				Department of Environmental Protection.
Discharge or Discharge of Pollutants
-
				any addition of any pollutant or combination of pollutants to waters of the
				Commonwealth from any source, including, but not limited to, discharges from
				surface runoff which are collected or channeled by man, discharges through
				pipes, sewers, or other conveyances owned by a state, municipality or other
				person, which do not lead to POTWs, and discharges through pipes or other
				conveyances leading into privately owned wastewater treatment facilities. This
				term does not include an addition of pollutants by any indirect
				discharger.
Effluent
- discharge of pollutants
				into the environment whether or not treated.
Effluent Limitation or Effluent Limit
- any requirement, restriction, or standard imposed by the Department on
				quantities, discharge rates, and concentrations of pollutants discharged from
				point sources into waters of the Commonwealth, to a publicly owned treatment
				works, or to a reclaimed water distribution system so that so that it may be
				used as reclaimed water in accordance with
				314 CMR 20.00.
Environmental Protection Agency or EPA
- the United States Environmental Protection Agency.
Facility or Facilities
- any and all
				devices, processes and properties real or personal used in the collection,
				pumping, transmission, storage, treatment, disposal, recycling, reclamation or
				reuse of water-borne pollutants, but not including any works receiving a
				hazardous waste from off the site of the works for the purpose of treatment,
				storage or disposal, or any works for the distribution or use of reclaimed
				water in accordance with
				314 CMR 20.00 and a Service
				and Use Agreement approved by the Department, that are not located on the same
				site as the devices and processes used for wastewater treatment and that are
				not under the direct ownership or control of the permittee.
Federal Act
- the Federal Water
				Pollution Control Act (FWPCA), currently known as the Clean Water Act,
				33 U.S.C. §
									1251
et seq
.
Greywater
- Any putrescible wastewater
				discharged from domestic activities, including, but not limited to, washing
				machines, sinks, showers, bath tubs, dishwashers, or other source except
				toilets, urinals and any drains equipped with garbage grinders.
Ground Water
- water below the land
				surface in a saturated zone, including perched ground water.
Ground Water Travel Time or Ground Water Time of
				Travel
- the time it takes a particle of water to flow through an
				aquifer from one point to another point of lower hydraulic gradient.
Indirect Discharger
- a discharger
				introducing pollutants to a treatment works.
Industrial Waste
- any liquid,
				gaseous, or solid waste substance or a combination thereof resulting from any
				process of industry, manufacturing, trade, or business or from the development
				or recovery of any natural resources.
Interim Wellhead Protection Area
				(IWPA)
- an interim wellhead protection area as defined in
				310 CMR 22.02.
				Generally this is a ½ mile radius from the well or well field for
				sources whose approved pumping rate is 100,000 gallons per day or greater. For
				smaller sources, the radius in feet is determined by multiplying the approved
				pumping rate in gallons per minute by 32 and adding 400.
Land Uses with Higher Potential Pollutant
				Loads
- the following land uses are land uses with higher
				potential pollutant loads: land uses identified in
				310 CMR
				22.20B(2);
				310
				CMR 22.20C(2)(a) through (k) and
				(m),
				310 CMR
				22.21(2)(a)1. through 8.,
				and
				310 CMR
				22.21(2)(b)1. through 6.,
				areas within a site that are regulated by an individual National Pollutant
				Discharge Elimination System (NPDES) stormwater permit or the NPDES
				Multi-Sector General Permit; auto fueling facilities (gas stations); exterior
				fleet storage areas; exterior vehicle service and equipment cleaning areas,
				marinas and boatyards; parking lots with high-intensity use; confined disposal
				facilities and disposal sites.
Local Government Unit
- a town, city,
				district, commission, agency, authority, board or other instrumentality of the
				Commonwealth or any of its political subdivisions including a regional
				government unit.
Massachusetts Surface Water Quality
				Standards
- the Massachusetts Surface Water Quality Standards (
				314 CMR 4.00 ).
Milligrams Per Liter or mg/l
- the
				weight in milligrams of any specific substance or substances contained in one
				liter of solution.
Nephelometric Turbidity Unit (NTU)
-
				measurement of turbidity as measured by the ratio of intensity of light
				scattered by the sample to the intensity of incident light as measured by
				method 2130 B in
Standard Methods for the Examination of Water and
				Wastewater
.
On-site Subsurface Sewage Disposal
				System
- a system or series of systems for the treatment or
				disposal of sanitary sewage below the ground in accordance with
				310 CMR 15.000.
Permit
- an authorization issued
				pursuant to M.G.L. c. 21, § 43 and
				314 CMR
				2.00,
				3.00,
				5.00,
				7.00 or
				20.00 to implement the
				requirements of M.G.L. c. 21, §§ 26 through 53, the Clean Water Act,
				33 U.S.C. §
									1251
et seq
. and the NPDES
				regulations, 40 CFR Part 122.
Person
- any agency or political
				subdivision of the Commonwealth, the Federal government, any public or private
				corporation or authority, individual, partnership or association, or other
				entity, including any officer of a public or private agency or organization,
				upon whom a duty may be imposed by or pursuant to any provisions of M.G.L. c.
				21, §§ 26 through 53.
Pollutant
- any element or property of
				sewage, agricultural, industrial or commercial waste, runoff, leachate, heated
				effluent, or other matter, in whatever form and whether originating at a point
				or non point source, which is or may be discharged, drained or otherwise
				introduced into any sewerage system, treatment works or waters of the
				Commonwealth.
Potable Waters
- water from any source
				that has been approved by the Department for human consumption.
Potable Water System
- a system for
				conveying potable water so that it may be used.
Pretreatment
- the reduction of the
				amount of pollutants, the elimination of pollutants, or the alteration of the
				nature of pollutants' properties in wastewater prior to or in lieu of
				discharging or otherwise introducing such pollutants into a POTW.
Private Water Supply Area
- an area
				that is served by private wells and where in the opinion of the Department it
				is not reasonable to connect to a public water system or where approval to
				connect to the public water system cannot be obtained.
Privately Owned Reclaimed Water System
- a privately owned treatment works that treats sewage so that it may be
				reclaimed, recycled or reused in accordance with
				314 CMR 20.00. A privately
				owned reclaimed water system may include a reclaimed water distribution
				system.
Processed Food Crop
- any crop that,
				prior to sale to the public or others, undergoes chemical or physical
				commercial processing sufficient to kill pathogens.
Publicly Owned Treatment Works or POTW
- any device or system used in the treatment and disposal (including recycling
				and reclamation) of municipal sewage or industrial wastes of a liquid nature,
				which is owned by a local government unit. A POTW includes any sewers, pipes,
				or other conveyances only if they convey wastewater to a POTW providing
				treatment.
Reclaimed Water
- wastewater that has
				been treated so that it is suitable for beneficial reuse in accordance with
				314 CMR 20.00.
Reclaimed Water Distribution System
-
				a system that distributes reclaimed water so that it may be reused in
				accordance with
				314 CMR 20.00.
Reclaimed Water System
- a treatment
				works that includes facilities for treating wastewater so that it may be
				beneficially reused in accordance with
				314 CMR 20.00.
Recreational Impoundment
- a man-made
				impoundment of reclaimed water for fishing, boating and other non-body contact
				recreational uses.
Residential Uses or Residential
				Developments
- apartment buildings, townhouses, condominiums,
				cooperatives, single family and or multi-family homes including manufactured
				homes, and rooming and boarding houses. Residential uses do not include the use
				of property for the activities listed in the following Standard Industrial
				Classification Codes: 7011, hotels; 7032, sporting and recreational camps;
				7033, recreational vehicle parks and camp sites; 7041, organizational hotels
				and lodging on a membership basis; 8051-8059, nursing and personal care
				facilities; 8062-8069, hospitals; and 8361, residential care facilities.
Reuse Site
- a site where reclaimed
				water is being used.
Satellite Reclaimed Water System
- a
				system for the distribution, use, sale, offering for distribution, sale, and
				use of reclaimed water in accordance with
				314 CMR 20.00 that does not
				include any facilities for wastewater treatment.
Sewage
- the water-carried human or
				animal wastes from residences, buildings, industrial establishments or other
				places together with such ground water infiltration and surface water as may be
				present.
Sewer System
- pipelines or conduits,
				pumping stations, force mains, and all other structures, devices,
				appurtenances, and facilities used for collecting and conveying wastes to a
				site or works for treatment or disposal.
Soil Absorption System
- a system of
				trenches, galleries, chambers, pits, fields or beds or any other disposal area
				approved in writing by the Department, together with effluent distribution
				lines and aggregate, which receives effluent from a treatment works.
Stormwater
- stormwater runoff,
				snowmelt runoff, surface runoff, and drainage.
Treatment Works
- any and all devices,
				processes and properties, real or personal, used in the collection, pumping,
				transmission, storage, treatment, disposal, recycling, reclamation or reuse of
				waterborne pollutants, but not including any works receiving a hazardous waste
				for the purpose of treatment, storage or disposal or any works for the
				distribution or use of reclaimed water in accordance with
				314 CMR 20.00 and a Service
				and Use Agreement approved by the Department, that are not located on the same
				site as the devices and processes used for wastewater treatment, and are not
				under the direct ownership or control of the permittee.
Uncontaminated Water
- water which
				does not contain dredge spoil, solid waste, incinerator residue, garbage,
				sewage, sludge, munitions, chemical wastes, biological waste materials,
				radioactive materials, wrecked or discarded equipment, cellar dirt, industrial,
				municipal or agricultural waste, or any other material upon which discharge
				could cause or contribute to a violation of the Massachusetts Surface Water
				Quality Standards or interfere with the actual or potential use of ground water
				as a source of potable water.
Wastewater Sewage, Industrial Waste, Other Wastes
				or any Combination of the Three
. Water from the washing of
				vehicles, machinery, materials, products, equipment and/or buildings with
				detergents or other cleaning agents that is part of the ordinary operations of
				a commercial or industrial enterprise or a local government unit is
				wastewater.
Waters of the Commonwealth
- all
				waters within the jurisdiction of the Commonwealth, including, without
				limitation, rivers, streams, lakes, ponds, springs, impoundments, estuaries,
				wetlands, coastal waters, ground waters and vernal pools. Wetlands constructed
				for the sole purpose of wastewater or stormwater management and lined basins
				constructed for the sole purpose of storing reclaimed water so that it can be
				reused are not considered to be waters of the Commonwealth.
Zone I
- the protective radius
				required around a public water supply well or wellfield, as defined in
				310 CMR 22.02. For
				public water supply system wells with approved yields of 100,000 gallons per
				day or greater, the protective radius is 400 feet. Tubular well fields require
				a 250-foot protective radius. Protective radii for all other public water
				system wells are determined by the following equation: Zone I radius in feet =
				[150 x log of pumping rate in gpd] - 350.
Zone A
- the land between a surface
				water source and the upper boundary of the bank as defined in
				310 CMR 22.02, to
				include the land within a 400-foot lateral distance from the upper boundary of
				a bank of a Class A surface water source as defined in
				314 CMR
				4.05(3)(a), and the land
				within a 200- foot lateral distance from the upper boundary of the bank of a
				tributary or associated surface water body.
Zone II
- the area of an aquifer that
				contributes water to a well under the most severe pumping and recharge
				conditions that can realistically be anticipated as defined in
				310 CMR
				22.00.