Virginia Administrative Code › Title 9 - ENVIRONMENT › Agency 25 - STATE WATER CONTROL BOARD › Chapter 740 - WATER RECLAMATION AND REUSE REGULATION › Part III - Application and Technical Requirements › Section 9VAC25-740-105 - Application for an emergency authorization

Current through Register Vol. 40, No. 24, July 15, 2024
A. An application for an emergency
				  authorization as described in 9VAC25-740-45 shall include information
				  addressing the following:
1. Contact
				  information of the applicant or permittee including name, mailing address,
				  telephone number, and, if applicable, fax number, and electronic mail
				  address;
2. Name of the city or
				  county where the emergency production, distribution, and reuse of reclaimed
				  water shall occur;
3. Recent and
				  current water use, including monthly water use in the previous calendar year
				  and weekly water use in the previous six months prior to the application. The
				  application shall identify the sources of such water and also identify any
				  water purchased from other water suppliers;
4. A description of the severity of the
				  public water supply emergency, including for reservoirs, an estimate of days of
				  remaining supply at the current rates of use and replenishment; for wells,
				  current production; for intakes, current streamflow;
5. A description of mandatory water
				  conservation measures taken or imposed by the applicant or permittee and the
				  dates when the measures were implemented. For the purposes of obtaining an
				  emergency authorization, mandatory water conservation measures shall include,
				  but are not limited to, the prohibition of lawn and landscape watering,
				  noncommercial vehicle washing, the watering of recreation fields, refilling of
				  swimming pools, and the washing of paved surfaces;
6. An estimate of water savings realized by
				  implementing mandatory water conservation measures;
7. Documentation that the applicant or
				  permittee has exhausted all public water supply management actions that would
				  minimize the threat to public welfare, safety, and health, and would avoid the
				  need to obtain an emergency authorization. This may include among other
				  actions, the acquisition of an Emergency Virginia Water Protection Permit ( as
				  provided in 9VAC25-210) for a new or increased withdrawal;
8. Any other information demonstrating that
				  public water supply conditions are a substantial threat to public health or
				  safety;
9. Name, address, and
				  permit number of the municipal treatment works that proposes to produce,
				  distribute, or reuse reclaimed water under the emergency
				  authorization;
10. A statement
				  confirming that the municipal treatment works:
a. Does not have SIUs, or
b. Has SIUs and a pretreatment program
				  developed, approved, and maintained in accordance with Part VII (9VAC25-31-730 et seq.) of the VPDES
				  Permit Regulation;
11.
				  Information regarding the design and operation of the treatment works,
				  demonstrating that the facility is currently capable of producing reclaimed
				  water meeting minimum standard requirements of
				  9VAC25-740-90 for reuses listed in
				  the application pursuant to subdivision 13 of this subsection;
12. Information specified in
				  9VAC25-740-100 B 6 regarding the
				  diversion of source water from the treatment works to reclamation and
				  reuse;
13. A list of proposed
				  reuses for reclaimed water produced by the municipal treatment works and an
				  explanation of how these reuses will protect public health and safety under the
				  current public water supply conditions;
14. A description of the system that will be
				  used to distribute reclaimed water from the municipal treatment works to the
				  intended reuses; and
15. A signed
				  and dated certification statement in accordance with signatory requirements of
				  the VPDES Permit Regulation (9VAC25-31) or the VPA Permit Regulation
				  (9VAC25-32), whichever applies to the permit issued to the municipal treatment
				  works.