Virginia Administrative Code › Title 9 - ENVIRONMENT › Agency 25 - STATE WATER CONTROL BOARD › Chapter 910 - GENERAL PERMIT FOR USE OF SURFICIAL AQUIFER ON THE EASTERN SHORE › Section 9VAC25-910-10 - Definitions

Current through Register Vol. 40, No. 24, July 15, 2024
The words and terms used in this chapter shall have the
				  meanings defined in the Ground Water Management Act of 1992 (§ 62.1-254 et
				  seq. of the Code of Virginia) and Groundwater Withdrawal Regulations
				  (9VAC25-610), except that for the purposes of this chapter, the following words
				  and terms shall have the following meanings unless the context clearly
				  indicates otherwise:
"Adverse impact" means reductions in groundwater levels or
				  changes in groundwater quality that limit the ability of any existing
				  groundwater user lawfully withdrawing or authorized to withdraw groundwater at
				  the time of permit or special exception issuance to continue to withdraw the
				  quantity and quality of groundwater required by the existing use. Existing
				  groundwater users include all those persons who have been granted a groundwater
				  withdrawal permit subject to this chapter and all other persons who are
				  excluded from permit requirements by
				  9VAC25-610-50.
"Applicant" means a person filing an application to initiate
				  or enlarge a groundwater withdrawal in a groundwater management area.
"Area of impact" means the areal extent of each aquifer where
				  more than one foot of drawdown is predicted to occur due to a proposed
				  withdrawal.
"Beneficial use" includes domestic (including public water
				  supply), agricultural, commercial, and industrial uses.
"Department" or "DEQ" means the Department of Environmental
				  Quality.
"Eastern Shore Groundwater Management Area" means the
				  groundwater management area declared by the board encompassing the Counties of
				  Accomack and Northampton.
"Groundwater" means any water, except capillary moisture,
				  beneath the land surface in the zone of saturation or beneath the bed of any
				  stream, lake, reservoir, or other body of surface water wholly or partially
				  within the boundaries of this Commonwealth, whatever the subsurface geologic
				  structure in which such water stands, flows, percolates, or otherwise
				  occurs.
"Mitigate" means to take actions necessary to assure that all
				  existing groundwater users at the time of issuance of a permit or special
				  exception who experience adverse impacts continue to have access to the amount
				  and quality of groundwater needed for existing uses.
"Permit" means a groundwater withdrawal permit issued under
				  the Ground Water Management Act of 1992 permitting the withdrawal of a
				  specified quantity of groundwater under specified conditions in a groundwater
				  management area.
"Permittee" means a person that currently has an effective
				  groundwater withdrawal permit, or coverage under a general permit, issued under
				  the Ground Water Act of 1992.
"Surface water and groundwater conjunctive use system" means
				  an integrated water supply system wherein surface water is the primary source
				  and groundwater is a supplemental source that is used to augment the surface
				  water source when the surface water source is not able to produce the amount of
				  water necessary to support the annual water demands of the
				  system.
Statutory Authority: §§ 62.1-256 and 62.1-262.1
					 of the Code of Virginia.