West Virginia Code of State Rules › Agency 64 - Health › Title 64 - LEGISLATIVE RULE WEST VIRGINIA DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH AND HUMAN RESOURCES › Series 64-61 - Public Water Systems Capacity Development › Section 64-61-3 - Definitions

Current through Register Vol. XLI, No. 28, July 12, 2024
3.1. Capacity --
				Capacity refers to a water system's ability to consistently provide safe
				drinking water for its customers. A water system must have the technical
				abilities, managerial skills, and financial resources to meet state and federal
				drinking water regulations.
3.2.
				Capacity development -- A program and a tool which helps to ensure all
				community public water systems and nontransient noncommunity water systems
				demonstrate the technical, managerial, and financial capacity to comply with
				Safe Drinking Water Act requirements and to benefit their customers.
3.3. Community water system -- A public water
				system which serves at least fifteen (15) service connections used by
				year-round residents or regularly serves at least twenty-five (25) year-round
				residents.
3.4. Director -- The
				director of the division of health or his or her designees from the division
				who are charged with enforcement of this rule.
3.5. Existing public water system -- Any
				community water system or nontransient noncommunity water system which came
				into existence prior to October 1, 1999.
3.6. Financial capacity -- The financial
				resources of the water system, including but not limited to the revenue
				sufficiency, credit worthiness, and fiscal controls.
3.7. Managerial capacity -- The management
				structure of the water system, including but not limited to ownership
				accountability, staffing, organization, and effective external
				linkages.
3.8. New public water
				system -- Any community or nontransient noncommunity water system which comes
				into existence on or after October 1, 1999.
3.9. Noncommunity water system -- Any public
				water system that is not a community water system.
3.10. Nontransient noncommunity water system
				-- A public water system that is not a community water system and that
				regularly serves the same twenty-five (25) or more persons over six (6) months
				per year.
3.11. Person -- An
				individual, partnership, association, syndicate, company, firm, trust,
				corporation, county or municipal government, public or private institution,
				department, division, bureau, agency, federal agency, or any other entity
				recognized by law.
3.12. Public
				water system -- A system which provides water to the public for human
				consumption through pipes or other constructed conveyances, if the system has
				at least fifteen (15) service connections or regularly serves at least
				twenty-five (25) individuals.
3.12.a. Public
				water system includes:
3.12.a.1. Any
				collection, treatment, storage, and distribution facilities under the control
				of the operator of a system and used primarily in connection with the system;
				and
3.12.a.2. Any collection or
				pretreatment storage facilities not under the control of the operator of the
				system which are used primarily in connection with the system.