Code of Maryland Regulations › Title 26 - DEPARTMENT OF ENVIRONMENT › Part 1 - SUBTITLES 01-07 › Subtitle 03 - WATER SUPPLY, SEWERAGE, SOLID WASTE, AND POLLUTION CONTROL PLANNING AND FUNDING › Chapter 26.03.12 - Construction Permits and Certain Related Requirements for Major Water Supply and Major Sewerage Systems › Section 26.03.12.02 - Definitions

Current through Register Vol. 51, No. 14, July 12, 2024
A. In this chapter,
				  the following terms have the meanings indicated.
B. Terms Defined.
(1) "Department" means the Department of the
				  Environment.
(2) "Design capacity"
				  means the maximum flow capacity that something is capable of providing while
				  achieving and maintaining the level of performance for which it was
				  designed.
(3) "Includes" means
				  including but not limited to.
(4)
				  "Local government" means a Maryland county, municipality, sanitary commission,
				  sanitary district, or other local government entity or unit of it.
(5) "MGD" means million gallons per
				  day.
(6) "Major sewerage system"
				  means the pipes or other channels by which sewage is or is intended to be
				  collected, conveyed, prepared for discharge and disposed of, together with all
				  structures, pumping stations, tanks, equipment, and appurtenances used or
				  intended to be used in its collection, conveyance, or preparation for discharge
				  in satisfactory condition into the ground waters or other waters of the State,
				  excluding only:
(a) Minor building
				  connections;
(b) The plumbing
				  systems, including pumping stations, inside the buildings served;
(c) Septic tanks and their related drain
				  fields and other appurtenances; and
(d) Gravity sewers with diameters 15 inches
				  or smaller.
(7) "Major
				  water supply system" means a system consisting of all pipes or other channels,
				  structures, pumping stations, equipment, and appurtenances by means of which
				  water is, or is intended to be, collected, treated, or conveyed for drinking or
				  domestic purposes, which serves, or is intended to serve, 25 or more of the
				  same persons on a day-to-day basis at least 6 months out of the year or which
				  serves, or is intended to serve, 15 or more residential connections, excluding
				  only:
(a) Minor building
				  connections;
(b) The plumbing
				  systems, including pumping stations, inside the buildings served;
(c) Wells; and
(d) Water mains with diameters 15 inches or
				  smaller.
(8) "Materially
				  alters" means any alteration other than:
(a)
				  Normal maintenance and repair;
(b)
				  The addition of a minor building connection; or
(c) The installation of a meter, valve, or
				  hydrant, and similar minor alterations.
(9) "Materially extends" means any extension
				  of water mains or gravity sewers with diameters greater than 15
				  inches.
(10) "Minor building
				  connection" means a pipe or other channel having a projected flow not exceeding
				  5,000 gallons per day average daily flow running from a particular building,
				  structure, or other facility that it serves to that point at which it is first
				  connected to a:
(a) Pipe or other channel
				  that runs along a right-of-way area;
(b) Pipe or other channel which also serves
				  other buildings; or
(c) Pumping
				  station.
(11) "Person"
				  includes:
(a) Any individual, partnership,
				  firm, association, corporation, or other entity;
(b) Any receiver, trustee, guardian, personal
				  representative, fiduciary, or representative of any kind; and
(c) The federal government, a state, a local
				  government, or unit of them.
(12) "Pumping station" means a facility or
				  system with a total design capacity greater than 5,000 gallons per day average
				  daily flow that is designed to deliver water or sewage from a lower elevation
				  to a higher elevation. The facility may include pumps, controls, and auxiliary
				  equipment, as well as the structures containing these items.
(13) "Right-of-way area" means:
(a) A road, street, alley, or other easement
				  or right-of-way area benefitting more than one parcel of land; and
(b) An existing or proposed road, street,
				  alley, or other easement or right-of-way area benefitting more than one lot or
				  parcel of land, as shown on a subdivision plat that is recorded in the local
				  land records or as shown on a plat submitted to a governmental entity for
				  review in connection with an intended or planned subdivision.
(14) "Sewage" means:
(a) Any human excretion or water-carried
				  domestic waste; and
(b) A mixture
				  of any human excretion or water-carried domestic waste with any other liquid or
				  water-carried waste, such as manufacturing or industrial waste, street wash,
				  rain water discharged from roofs, lawns, paved areas, etc., and ground
				  garbage.
(15) "Sewage
				  collection lines" means the part, if any, of a major sewerage system consisting
				  of the pipes and other channels by which sewage is collected and conveyed to
				  the place for its treatment and disposal, including sanitary sewer lines and
				  force main lines, but excluding pumping stations.
(16) "Sewage treatment plant" means the part,
				  if any, of a major sewerage system consisting of a facility, other than a
				  septic tank, using chemical, physical, or biological processes, or all of
				  these, to prepare sewage in a satisfactory condition for discharge into the
				  ground waters or other waters of the State or for application on land after it
				  is treated.
(17) Unit Process.
(a) "Unit process" means the equipment and
				  other improvements at a water supply plant or sewage treatment plant used in
				  each distinct step in the process of treating water or sewage.
(b) "Unit process" includes:
(i) Clarifiers;
(ii) Activated sludge aeration
				  tanks;
(iii) Disinfection
				  facilities;
(iv) Filtration
				  units;
(v) Digestors; and
(vi) Belt filter presses.
(18) "Water
				  distribution lines" means the part, if any, of a major water supply system
				  consisting of the pipes and other channels by which water that has been
				  prepared for human consumption is conveyed from the place of its treatment to
				  the consumer or other user, excluding pumping stations.
(19) "Water supply plant" means the part, if
				  any, of a major water supply system consisting of a facility using chemical,
				  physical, or biological processes, or all of these, to prepare water that is
				  safe for human consumption and domestic purposes, together with all water
				  storage facilities irrespective of their location.