Oregon Administrative Rules › Chapter 340 - DEPARTMENT OF ENVIRONMENTAL QUALITY › Division 55 - RECYCLED WATER USE › Section 340-055-0010 - Definitions

Current through Register Vol. 63, No. 7, July 1, 2024
The following definitions apply to this division of
				rules:
(1) "Artificial Groundwater
			 Recharge" means the intentional addition of water diverted from another source
			 to a groundwater reservoir.
(2)
			 "Beneficial Purpose" means a purpose where recycled water is utilized for a
			 resource value, such as nutrient content or moisture, to increase productivity
			 or to conserve other sources of water.
(3) "Department" means the Oregon Department
			 of Environmental Quality.
(4)
			 "Disinfected Wastewater" means wastewater that has been treated by a chemical,
			 physical or biological process and meets the criteria if applicable to its
			 classification for use as recycled water.
(5) "Filtered Wastewater" means an oxidized
			 wastewater that meets the criteria defined in OAR
			 340-055-0012(7)(c).
(6) "Human Consumption" means water used for
			 drinking, personal or oral hygiene, bathing, showering, cooking, or
			 dishwashing.
(7) "Landscape
			 Impoundment" means a body of water used for aesthetic purposes or other
			 function that does not include public contact through activities such as
			 boating, fishing, or body-contact recreation. Landscape impoundments include,
			 but are not limited to, golf course water ponds or non-residential landscape
			 ponds.
(8) "Nonrestricted
			 Recreational Impoundment" means a constructed body of water for which there are
			 no limitations on body-contact water recreation activities. Nonrestricted
			 recreational impoundments include, but are not limited to, recreational lakes,
			 water features accessible to the public, and public fishing ponds.
(9) "NPDES Permit" means a National Pollutant
			 Discharge Elimination System permit as defined in OAR chapter 340, division 45.
(10) "Oxidized Wastewater" means a
			 treated wastewater in which the organic matter is stabilized and
			 nonputrescible, and which contains dissolved oxygen.
(11) "Person" means the United States and
			 agencies thereof, any state, any individual, public or private corporation,
			 political subdivision, governmental agency, municipality, copartnership,
			 association, firm, trust estate, or any other legal entity.
(12) "Processed Food Crops" means those crops
			 that undergo thermoprocessing sufficient to kill spores of Clostridium
			 botulinum.
(13) "Recycled Water"
			 means treated effluent from a wastewater treatment system which as a result of
			 treatment is suitable for a direct beneficial purpose. Recycled water includes
			 reclaimed water as defined in ORS 537.131.
(14) "Restricted Recreational Impoundment"
			 means a constructed body of water that is limited to fishing, boating, and
			 other non-body contact water recreation activities.
(15) "Sprinkler Irrigation" means the act of
			 applying water by means of perforated pipes or nozzles operated under pressure
			 so as to form a spray pattern.
(16)
			 "Wastewater" or "Sewage" means the water-carried human or animal waste from
			 residences, buildings, industrial establishments or other places, together with
			 such groundwater infiltration and surface water as may be present. The
			 admixture with sewage of wastes or industrial wastes shall also be considered
			 "wastewater" within the meaning of this division.
(17) "Wastewater Treatment System" or "Sewage
			 Treatment System" means an approved facility or equipment used to alter the
			 quality of wastewater by physical, chemical or biological means or a
			 combination thereof that reduces the tendency of the wastewater to degrade
			 water quality or other environmental conditions.
(18) "Waters of the State" means lakes, bays,
			 ponds, impounding reservoirs, springs, wells, rivers, streams, creeks,
			 estuaries, marshes, inlets, canals, the Pacific Ocean within the territorial
			 limits of the State of Oregon, and all other bodies of surface or underground
			 waters, natural or artificial, inland or coastal, fresh or salt, public or
			 private (except those private waters which do not combine or effect a junction
			 with natural surface or underground waters) that are located wholly or
			 partially within or bordering the state or within its jurisdiction.
(19) "WPCF Permit" means a Water Pollution
			 Control Facilities permit as defined in OAR chapter 340, division 45.
(20) "Wetlands" means those areas that are
			 inundated or saturated by surface or groundwater at a frequency and duration
			 sufficient to support, and that under normal circumstances do support, a
			 prevalence of vegetation typically adapted for life in saturated soil
			 conditions.
Stat. Auth.: ORS 468.020, 468.705 & 468.710
Stats. Implemented: ORS 468B.005, 468B.030 &
				  468B.050