Oklahoma Administrative Code › Title 252 - Department of Environmental Quality › Chapter 624 - Minor Public Water Supply Systems › Subchapter 1 - General Provisions › Section 252:624-1-2 - Definitions

Current through Vol. 41, No. 20, July 1, 2024
The following words, terms and acronyms, when used in the
				  Chapter shall have the following meaning, unless the context clearly indicates
				  otherwise:
"Annular space"
means the opening between the
				  surface or production casing and the side of the bore hole.
"ANSI"
means the American National Standards
				  Institute.
"API"
means the American Petroleum
				  Institute.
"ASTM"
means the American Society for Testing
				  and Materials.
"AWWA"
means the American Water Works
				  Association.
"DEQ"
means the Department of Environmental
				  Quality.
"Disinfection"
means a process that inactivates
				  pathogenic organisms in water using chlorination.
"Drinking water standards"
means the list of
				  maximum contaminant levels for drinking water for public water systems as
				  determined by EPA.
"EPA"
means the Environmental Protection
				  Agency.
"Human consumption"
means drinking, bathing,
				  showering, food preparation, dishwashing, eye washing, or maintaining oral
				  hygiene. For the purposes of this Chapter handwashing is not considered
				  consumption.
"Individual water system"
means a water system
				  serving only one single-family residence.
"Licensed well driller"
means and refers to the
				  individual owner-proprietor or partnership, firm or corporation licensed by the
				  OWRB to engage in the business of the commercial drilling, plugging,
				  reconstruction and/or test drilling of water wells in the State of
				  Oklahoma.
"Minor public water supply system"
means a
				  system of one or more water wells or surface water treatment plants that
				  provides water to the public for human consumption:
(A) through pipes or other constructed conveyances
(B) for compensation or not,
(C) has fewer than 15 connections,
(D) serves fewer than 25 people, and
(E) is not an individual water system. A water system is not
				  an individual water system if it serves:
(i) a single-family residence housing a commercial business
				  that serves water to the public, or
(ii) more than one dwelling, or
(iii) one or more multi-family dwellings.
(iv) Excluded from this definition are water systems
				  that
(I) purchase water from a permitted water system, or
(II) only provide water to family members, or
(III) have a well for each single-family residence or each
				  unit of a multi-family dwelling, or
(IV) qualify as a public water supply system in accordance
				  with OAC 252:626.
"Multi-family dwelling"
means a single structure
				  designed and suitable for use of two or more families.
"NSF"
means the National Sanitation
				  Foundation.
"NTU"
means Nephelometric Turbidity Unit.
"OWRB"
means the Oklahoma Water Resources
				  Board.
"PAS"
means Pitless Adapter Standard.
"PPM"
means parts per million.
"PSI"
means pounds per square inch.
"PVC"
means polyvinylchloride.
"Service line"
means the water supply line that
				  runs between the water main and a residential structure, commercial structure
				  or a water hydrant.
"Slow sand filtration"
means a process involving
				  passage of raw water through a bed of sand at low velocity (generally less than
				  50 gallons/ft 
				  2/day) resulting in substantial
				  particulate removal by physical and biological mechanisms.
"Turbidity"
means the amount of suspended
				  material in water measured using a nephelometer and expressed in NTU's.
"UL"
means Underwriter Laboratories.
"VOC"
means volatile organic compound.
"Water main"
means a public water supply line
				  that carries potable water to more than one service line.
"Water source"
means any lake, stream, spring or
				  groundwater supply that is used as treated or untreated water for a minor
				  public water supply system.
"WSC"
means Water Systems
				  Council.
Added at 25 Ok Reg 2294,
				  eff 7-11-08