7 Del. Admin. Code § 7103-12.0

Current through Register Vol. 28, No. 3, September 1, 2024

Section 7103-12.0 - Basic Considerations for Design

12.1 Design of any land-treatment system will need to consider the following items:

12.1.2 Wastewater characterization; volume and composition (including seasonal fluctuations);

12.1.3 Land requirements; land selection and evaluation of land's assimilative capacity for the wastewater; land area required; land acquisition; land preparation; adjacent land uses

12.1.4 Pretreatment requirements before land application; design of total system (pretreatment and land application)

12.1.5 Storage requirements

12.1.6 Application equipment and controls

12.1.7 Groundwater quality and use

12.2 Vegetation and site management; liming, pest management, harvesting, etc.; equipment requirements; crop or forest utilization potential; crop or forest production costs and returns

12.3 Buffer zones

12.3.1 Monitoring

12.3.2 Security

12.3.3 Overall operations and maintenance

12.4 A flow chart briefly outlining system design and approval is shown in Figure 1.

7 Del. Admin. Code § 7103-12.0