North Carolina Administrative Code › Title 02 - AGRICULTURE AND CONSUMER SERVICES › Chapter 09 - FOOD AND DRUG PROTECTION › Subchapter L - PESTICIDE SECTION › Section .2000 - CHEMIGATION › Section 09L .2001 - DEFINITIONS

Current through Register Vol. 39, No. 2, July 15, 2024
All specific words or terms used in this Section shall have
					 the same definitions as shown in the North Carolina Pesticide Law of 1971,
					 G.S.
					 143-460, or unless the context otherwise
					 requires, other definitions shall be:
(1) "Antisiphon Device" means any equipment
				  that prevents the backflow of a pesticide into any water supply or the backflow
				  of water into a pesticide supply. Antisiphon devices include automatic low
				  pressure drain, check valve, flow interrupter, and vacuum relief
				  valve.
(2) "Automatic Low Pressure
				  Drain" means a self-activating device to drain that portion of an irrigation
				  pipeline whose contents could enter the water supply when operation of the
				  irrigation system pumping plant fails or is shut down.
(3) "Check Valve" means a device to provide a
				  positive closure of an irrigation pipeline or pesticide injection line that
				  prohibits the flow of pesticide or water in the opposite direction of that
				  desired when operation of the irrigation system pumping plant or pesticide
				  injection unit fails or is shut down.
(4) "Chemigation" means any process whereby
				  pesticides are applied to land, crops, or plants utilizing an irrigation
				  system. Some examples are agricultural, nursery, turf, lawn, golf course, and
				  greenhouse sites.
(5) "Chemigation
				  and/or Irrigation Water Supplies" means any source of water that is used for
				  chemigation and/or irrigation to include private wells, public water systems,
				  ground or surface water sources.
(6) "Flow Interrupter" means a device that
				  provides positive interruption or cessation of pesticide or water flow in
				  either direction upon pesticide injection unit shutdown or failure.
(7) "Functional Systems Interlock" means a
				  system used to link irrigation pumps and pesticide injection units, other pumps
				  or supply tanks so designed that in the event of irrigation pump malfunction or
				  failure, shutdown of the pesticide injection units will occur.
(8) "Inspection Port" means a place on the
				  irrigation pipeline that can be utilized to determine visually if the check
				  valve leaks.
(9) "Irrigation" means
				  the act of mechanically supplying water to land, crops and/or plants.
(10) "Irrigation System" means any device or
				  combination of devices having hose, pipe, or other conduit which connects
				  directly to any water supply. The term does not include any handheld hose-end
				  sprayer which is constructed so that an interruption in water flow prevents any
				  backflow to the water supply.
(11)
				  "Public Water System" means:
(a) a system for
				  the provision to the public of piped water for human consumption if such system
				  has at least 15 service connections or serves an average of at least 25
				  individuals daily at least 60 days out of the year. Such term includes:
(i) any collection, treatment, storage, and
				  distribution facility under control of the operator of such system and used in
				  connection with such system; and
(ii) any collection or pre-treatment storage
				  facility not under such control which is used primarily in connection with such
				  system.