Oklahoma Administrative Code › Title 252 - Department of Environmental Quality › Chapter 619 - Operation and Maintenance of Non-Industrial Total Retention Lagoon Systems › Subchapter 1 - General Provisions › Section 252:619-1-2 - Definitions

Current through Vol. 41, No. 20, July 1, 2024
In addition to the definitions contained in the Environmental
				  Quality Code (27A O.S. § 2-1-101
et seq
.), the following
				  words and terms, when used in this Chapter, shall have the following meaning,
				  unless the context clearly indicates otherwise:
"Bypass"
means the intentional or unintentional
				  diversion of wastes or wastewater from any portion of a total retention lagoon
				  system.
"Cell"
means an individual basin of a total
				  retention lagoon system.
"Collection system"
means pipelines or conduits,
				  manholes, pumping stations, force mains and all other structures used to
				  collect and conduct wastewater to a total retention lagoon.
"DEQ"
means the Oklahoma Department of
				  Environmental Quality.
"Dike"
means a bank, usually composed of earth,
				  which is constructed to control or confine wastewater within a lagoon.
"Discharge"
means any intentional or
				  unintentional release by leaking, pumping, pouring, emitting, emptying,
				  dumping, escaping, seeping, overflowing, leaching or other means of release of
				  wastes or wastewater into any waters of the State or into or on any location
				  where they may enter waters of the State.
"Domestic wastewater"
means wastewater that
				  generally originates as human waste from certain activities including using
				  toilet facilities, washing, bathing, preparing foods and washing
				  laundry.
"Freeboard"
means the vertical distance from the
				  surface water level in the lagoon to a point that is even with the top of the
				  dike.
"Lagoon"
means a soil or lined basin, either
				  below or above ground level, that is designed, maintained and operated to
				  store, recycle and/or treat municipal/domestic wastewater.
"Land application"
means the application of
				  treated wastewater to a vegetated land surface with the applied wastewater
				  being further treated as it flows through the plant-soil matrix.
"Liner"
means a barrier that is designed,
				  constructed and installed in a lagoon and which has appropriate chemical and
				  physical properties to control the seepage or release of wastes and wastewater
				  from the lagoon.
"Municipal wastewater"
means wastewater
				  originating from a community that is composed primarily of domestic
				  wastewater.
"Operator"
means the individual who is properly
				  certified by DEQ and who is responsible for the maintenance and operation of a
				  total retention lagoon system.
"Person"
means any individual, company,
				  corporation, government agency, municipality, or any other entity
				  whatsoever.
"Septic"
means bacterial activity in the absence
				  of oxygen. This condition may cause enhancement of the growth of anaerobic
				  bacteria and production of unpleasant odors.
"Total retention lagoon"
means a non-industrial
				  wastewater lagoon that is designed and constructed without a discharge
				  structure. A lagoon that was originally designed and constructed to discharge
				  but has since had the discharge structure permanently sealed may be considered
				  a total retention lagoon.
"Total retention lagoon system"
includes the
				  collection system, the total retention lagoon and the land application
				  site.
Added at 22 Ok Reg 1471,
				  eff 6-15-05