New York Codes, Rules and Regulations › Title 10 - DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH › Chapter I - State Sanitary Code › Part 5 - Drinking Water Supplies › Subpart 5-4 - Classification And Certification Of Community And Nontransient Noncommunity Water System Operators › Section 5-4.1 - Definitions

Current through Register Vol. 46, No. 28, July 10, 2024
As used in this Subpart, the following words and terms
					 shall have the stated meanings except as otherwise provided:
(a) Available means a certified operator must
				  be on site or able to be contacted within one hour to initiate the appropriate
				  action.
(b) Clarification means a
				  treatment process that includes rapid mix, flocculation and
				  sedimentation.
(c) Community water
				  system (CWS) means a public water system which serves at least five service
				  connections used by year-round residents or regularly serves at least 25
				  year-round residents.
(d)
				  Continuing education unit (CEU) means 10 hours of personal participation in an
				  organized continuing education course, training meeting, workshop, etc.
				  approved by the New York State Department of Health.
(e) Department means the New York State
				  Department of Health.
(f)
				  Distribution system means any combination of pipes, tanks, etc. which delivers
				  potable water from the source(s) and/or treatment plant(s) to the consumer's
				  service connection.
(g)
				  Distribution system operator means the certified person in responsible charge
				  of the operation and maintenance of the distribution system at a community
				  water system or a nontransient noncommunity water system.
(h) Dwelling unit means one or more rooms
				  with provisions for living, sanitary and sleeping facilities arranged for the
				  use of one family.
(i) Filtration
				  means the process for removing particulate matter from water by the passage
				  through porous materials or other processes determined to be acceptable under
				  the provisions of section
				  5-1.22 
				  of this Part.
(j) Grandparenting
				  means an exemption for the existing system operator(s) in responsible charge,
				  effective February 14, 2001, from meeting the initial education and/or
				  examination requirements for the class of certification the system
				  requires.
(k) Ground water directly
				  influenced by surface water means any water beneath the surface of the ground
				  which exhibits water characteristics such as turbidity, temperature,
				  conductivity or pH that closely correlates to climatological or surface water
				  conditions and/or which contain significant occurrence of macroorganisms,
				  algae, organic debris, large-diameter pathogens, or insect parts of a surface
				  water origin.
(l) Ground water
				  source means a source of water supply taken from a ground water aquifer and
				  developed in accordance with section
				  5-1.22 
				  of this Part, but shall not include an admixture of surface water or water
				  exposed to the ground surface.
(m)
				  Noncommunity water system (NCWS) means a public water system that is not a
				  community water system.
(n)
				  Nontransient noncommunity water system (NTNC) means a public water system that
				  is not a community water system but is a subset of a noncommunity water system
				  that regularly serves at least 25 of the same persons, for hours or more per
				  day, for four or more days per week, for 26 or more weeks per year.
(o) Operating experience means the time spent
				  working at a water treatment plant in the satisfactory performance of
				  operational duties or working on a distribution system in the satisfactory
				  performance of operational and maintenance duties. Water plant design
				  experience does not qualify as operating experience.
(p) Operation means the time during which the
				  system (water treatment plant and/or distribution system) is functioning with
				  the intent to produce potable water for human consumption.
(q) Operator in responsible charge means the
				  person(s) designated by the owner of the system to be the certified water
				  treatment operator(s) who makes decisions regarding the daily operational
				  activities of a public water system, water treatment facility and/or
				  distribution system that will directly impact the quality and/or quantity of
				  drinking water.
(r) Public water
				  system means either a community or noncommunity water system which provides
				  piped water to the public for human consumption, if such system has at least
				  five service connections or regularly serves an average of at least 25
				  individuals at least 60 days out of the year. Such term includes:
(1) collection, treatment, storage and
				  distribution facilities under control of the supplier of water of such system
				  and used with such system; and
(2)
				  collection or pretreatment storage facilities not under such control which are
				  used in connection with such system.