Code of Massachusetts Regulations › 360 CMR - MASSACHUSETTS WATER RESOURCE AUTHORITY › Title 360 CMR 11.00 - Continuation Of Contract Water Supply › Section 11.02 - Definitions

Current through Register 1525, July 5, 2024
Authority
shall mean the Massachusetts
				Water Resources Authority.
Authority water supply system
shall
				mean the waterworks under the control of the Authority.
Contract termination date
shall mean
				the termination date set forth in each individual Water Supply Continuation
				Agreement.
Demand analysis
shall mean the
				analysis of a community's water needs based on the criteria set forth for
				Demand Analysis Reports, as described below at
				360 CMR
				11.08.
Demand management program
shall mean a
				program which addresses any planned or managed change in the manner or extent
				of use, distribution or sale of water which results in a reduction in
				consumption, evaporation, or transfer of water.
DEP
shall mean the Massachusetts
				Department of Environmental Protection within the Executive Office of
				Environmental Affairs.
Enabling act
shall mean the enabling
				act of the Authority, St. 1984, c. 372, as amended.
Full cost pricing
shall mean a user
				charge system which ensures for full recovery of all costs associated with
				provision of water services, net of other system revenue.
Leak detection
shall include but not
				be limited to a program for investigating and identifying water losses in the
				water supply or distribution system.
Local body or community
shall include
				but not be limited to the following cities, towns, or districts of the
				Commonwealth: Cambridge, Canton, Chicopee, Framingham, Leominster, Lynn Water
				and Sewer Commission, Marlborough, Needham, Northborough, Peabody,
				Southborough, South Hadley Fire District No. 1, Wakefield, Wellesley, Weston,
				Wilbraham, Winchester, Woburn and Worcester.
Local source
shall mean a water supply
				source other than MDC/Authority sources which is available for use by a
				community.
Maximum daily demand
shall mean the
				maximum volume of water required over a consecutive 24 hour period.
MDC
shall mean the Metropolitan
				District Commission.
MDC/Authority sources
shall mean the
				Quabbin Reservoir, the Intake Reservoir on the Ware River at Coldbrook, the
				Wachusett Reservoir, the open channel of the Wachusett Aqueduct, the Sudbury
				Reservoir, Stearn's Reservior, Brackett Reservoir, Foss Reservoir, Spot Pond,
				Chestnut Hill Reservoir, or any other lake, pond, reservoir, aqueduct, stream,
				ditch, water course, or other open waters, used by the Metropolitan District
				Commission as a source or as a tributary to a source of the water it supplies
				to the Authority.
MGD
shall mean million gallons per
				day.
Prevailing rate
shall mean that rate
				annually adopted by the Authority for the sale of water to communities pursuant
				St. 1984, c. 372, § 10.
Safe Yield
shall mean the maximum
				withdrawal rate that can be sustained from a water source with an acceptable
				degree of risk.
Supply analysis
shall mean the
				analysis of a community's present, abandoned and potential new water supply
				sources based on the criteria set forth for Supply Analysis Reports, as
				described below at
				360 CMR
				11.08.
Unaccounted-for water
shall mean the
				water that has been delivered to the distribution system but has not been
				billed to customer accounts or identified as known, unmetered usage.
User charge system
shall mean a system
				of charging users of the local water system for services supplied.
Water conservation
shall mean
				reduction in water use through the elimination of wasteful or unnecessary water
				use by the installation of water conserving devices or through technological or
				behavioral changes, or the detection and repair of leaks.
Water conserving device
shall mean a
				fixture that is either adapted to or replaces an existing fixture, and that
				reduces the amount of water the original fixture required to accomplish its
				function without impairing the intended function of the fixture.
Water management plan
shall mean a
				local water resources management plan prepared using WRC guidelines pursuant to
				the WRC's Water Resource Management Planning Regulations, 313 CMR 2.00. In the
				event that local water resources management plans are no longer required or
				approved by the WRC, then the adoption by a community of the water conservation
				and demand management measures and implementation schedule prepared according
				to
				360 CMR 11.08(3)
				 shall be considered a water management
				plan.
WRC
shall mean the Massachusetts Water
				Resources Commission within the Executive Office of Environmental
				Affairs.