5 Colo. Code Regs. § 1002-55.2

Current through Register Vol. 47, No. 20, October 25, 2024

Section 5 CCR 1002-55.2 - DEFINITIONS

(1) "Beneficial Use" - means the use of water treatment plant sludge in conjunction with wastewater treatment plant sludge to act as a soil conditioner or low grade fertilizer for the promotion of vegetative growth on land and that meets the requirements of the state Biosolids Regulations.

(2) Best Management Practices" - means schedules of activities, prohibitions of practices, maintenance procedures, and other management practices to prevent or reduce the pollution of "state waters". Best Management Practices also include treatment requirements, operating procedures and practices to control plant site runoff, spillage or leaks, sludge or waste disposal, or drainage from raw material storage.

(3) "Consolidation" - means a proposed new construction or expansion of a drinking water supply system that will eliminate one or more existing water supply or treatment works. A letter of intent or a resolution adopted by the project participants must be provided to the division to guarantee the facilities will consolidate.

(4) "Governmental Agency" - means any municipality, regional commission, county (or county on behalf of unincorporated areas), metropolitan district offering sanitation service, sanitation district used for funding a domestic wastewater treatment works project, water and sanitation district, water conservancy district, metropolitan sewage disposal district, other special district used for funding a project under this regulation.

(5) "Impacted Water Body" - means a water body in which the designated use(s) of recreation, aquatic life, water supply, agriculture, and/or wetlands have been affected by pollutants associated with a violation of the Act, permit, control regulation, or final cease and desist order or clean-up order.

(6) "Nonpoint source" - means a diffused pollution source that is not regulated as a point source, including, but not limited to, sources that are often associated with agriculture, inactive or abandoned mining, silviculture, urban runoff, or runoff from construction activities. Nonpoint source pollution does not emanate from a discernible, confined, and discrete conveyance (such as a single pipe) but generally results from land runoff, precipitation, atmospheric deposition, or percolation.

(7) "Pollution" - means the man-made, man-induced, or natural alteration of the physical, chemical, biological, and radiological integrity of water.

(8) "Public water system" - a system for the provision to the public of water for human consumption through pipes or other constructed conveyances, if such system has at least fifteen service connections or regularly serves an average of at least 25 individuals daily at least 60 days per year. A public water system is either a community water system or a non-community water system. Such term does not include any special irrigation district. Such term includes:

(a) Any collection, treatment, storage, and distribution facilities under control of the supplier of such system and used primarily in connection with such system.

(b) Any collection or pretreatment storage facilities not under such control, which are used primarily in connection with such system.

(9) "Waterborne Disease Outbreak" - means the significant occurrence of acute infectious illness, epidemiologically associated with the ingestion of water from a public water system which is deficient in treatment, as determined by the appropriate local or State agency.

5 CCR 1002-55.2

37 CR 17, September 10, 2014, effective 9/30/2014

40 CR 23, December 10, 2017, effective 12/31/2017

46 CR 01, January 10, 2023, effective 1/30/2023