62-610.200. Definitions

Terms used in this chapter shall have the meaning specified below. The meaning of any term not defined below shall be taken from definitions in other rules of the Department.

(1) “Absorption field” means a drainfield, including the application/distribution system, intended for the reuse of reclaimed water.

(2) “Aquifer” means the same as defined in Chapter 62-520, F.A.C.

(3) “Aquitard” means a geological formation or stratum, or artificial barrier, of relatively low permeability which will not transmit water fast enough to furnish an appreciable supply; confining zone.

(4) “Blend” means the combination of concentrate and reclaimed water.

(5) “Blend ratio” means the ratio of the flow of reclaimed water to the flow of concentrate in a blending operation, as described in Rule 62-610.865, F.A.C.

(6) “Carbonaceous biochemical oxygen demand (CBOD5)” means the same as defined in Rule 62-600.200, F.A.C.

(7) “Commission” means the Environmental Regulation Commission.

(8) “Demineralization concentrate” means the same as defined in Rule 62-620.200, F.A.C. Within this chapter, demineralization concentrate will also be referred to as “concentrate.”

(9) “Department” means the Department of Environmental Protection.

(10) “Developed areas” means areas in or adjacent to residential, commercial, or residentially or commercially-zoned areas.

(11) “Disinfection” means the same as defined in Rule 62-600.200, F.A.C.

(12) “Disposal” means the discharge of effluent to injection wells, effluent outfalls, subsurface drain systems, and other facilities utilized strictly for the release of effluents into the environment.

(13) “District” means a water management district created pursuant to Chapter 373, F.S.

(14) “Domestic wastewater” means the same as defined in Rule 62-620.200, F.A.C.

(15) “Dwelling unit” means a residence for the housing of a single family whether such a residence is a detached structure or a unit of a multiple family building.

(16) “Edible crops” means crops that are intended for human consumption.

(17) “Effluent,” unless specifically stated otherwise, means water that is not reused after flowing out of any plant or other works used for the purpose of treating, stabilizing, or holding wastes.

(18) “Effluent limitation” means the same as defined in Rule 62-620.200, F.A.C.

(19) “Establishment” means a housing, commercial, or institutional development, including, but not limited to, a place of business, assembly, or residence, whether multiple or single family. An establishment will include all buildings, structures, mobile homes, and appurtenant lands.

(20) “Estuary” means the same as defined in Rule 62-303.200, F.A.C.

(21) “Fecal coliforms” means members of the coliform group capable of producing gas from lactose at 44.5 degree C, as determined using approved methods.

(22) “Ground water” means the same as defined in Rule 62-520.200, F.A.C.

(23) “Holding pond” means the same as defined in Rule 62-600.200, F.A.C.

(24) “Hydrogeology” means the branch of hydrology that deals with ground water, its occurrence and movements, its replenishment and depletion, the properties of rocks that control ground water movement and storage, and the methods of investigation and use of ground water.

(25) “Indirect contact irrigation” mean irrigation methods, such as ridge and furrow irrigation, drip irrigation, and subsurface distribution systems, which minimize direct contact of reclaimed water with the edible crops.

(26) “Indirect potable reuse” means, for purposes of this chapter, the planned discharge of reclaimed water to surface waters to augment the supply of water available for drinking water and other uses. Indirect potable reuse is contrasted with “direct potable reuse” which involves the discharge of reclaimed water directly into a drinking water treatment facility or into a drinking water distribution system.

(27) “Industrial facilities” means those facilities that produce, treat or dispose of wastewater not otherwise defined as domestic wastewater, including the runoff and leachate from areas that receive pollutants associated with industrial or commercial storage, handling or processing.

(28) “Land application” means the same as defined in Rule 62-600.200, F.A.C.

(29) “Modification” means the same as defined in Rule 62-600.200, F.A.C.

(30) “Monitoring well” means the same as defined in Rule 62-600.200, F.A.C.

(31) “Nitrate (NO3)” means the same as defined in Rule 62-600.200, F.A.C.

(32) “Nonpotable water supply well” means a well used as a source of water for irrigation, cooling, or other uses. Wells used as a source of water for drinking, culinary, or domestic purposes are excluded from the definition of nonpotable water supply wells.

(33) “Operator” means the same as defined in Rule 62-600.200, F.A.C.

(34) “Percolation” means the generally vertical movement of water through soil or other unconsolidated medium to the water table and to lower aquifers where occurring.

(35) “Percolation pond” means an artificial impoundment similar to a holding pond for which the design and operation provides for fluid losses through percolation/seepage in addition to evaporative losses.

(36) “Permittee” means the same as defined in Rule 62-600.200, F.A.C.

(37) “pH” means the the same as defined in Rule 62-600.200, F.A.C.

(38) “Pollution” means same as defined in Section 403.031(7), F.S.

(39) “Potable quality water offset” means the amount of potable quality water (Class F-I, G-I, or G-II ground water or water meeting drinking water standards) saved through the use of reclaimed water expressed as a percentage of the total reclaimed water used. The potable quality water offset is calculated by dividing the amount of potable water saved by the amount of reclaimed water used and multiplying the quotient by 100.

(40) “Potable water supply well” means a well used as a source of water for drinking, culinary, or domestic purposes.

(41) “Preapplication waste treatment” means the same as defined in Rule 62-600.200, F.A.C.

(42) “Public access area” means an area that is intended to be accessible to the general public; such as golf courses, cemeteries, parks, landscape areas, hotels, motels, and highway medians. Public access areas include private property that is not open to the public at large, but is intended for frequent use by many persons. Public access areas also include residential dwellings. Presence of authorized farm personnel or other authorized treatment plant, utilities system, or reuse system personnel does not constitute public access. Irrigation of exercise areas and other landscape areas accessible to prisoners at penal institutions shall be considered as irrigation of public access areas.

(43) “Public water supply well” means a well constructed for the purpose of supplying water to a public water system, as defined in Rule 62-550.200, F.A.C.

(44) “Recharge fraction” means the portion of reclaimed water used in a reuse system that recharges an underlying potable quality ground water (Class F-I, G-I, or G-II ground water) that is used for potable supply, or augments a Class I surface water, expressed as a percentage of the total reclaimed water used.

(45) “Reclaimed water” means the same as defined in Rule 62-600.200, F.A.C.

(46) “Reclaimed water distribution system” means a network of pipes, pumping facilities, storage facilities, and appurtenances designed to convey and distribute reclaimed water from one or more domestic wastewater treatment facilities to one or more users of reclaimed water.

(47) “Reclaimed water pipe” means a pipe used to carry reclaimed water.

(48) “Restricted access” means that access to the reuse site by the general public is controlled and that access to the reuse site by the public is infrequent. Such sites will be accessible to authorized operators and farm personnel.

(49) “Reuse” means the deliberate application of reclaimed water, in compliance with Department and District rules, for a beneficial purpose. Criteria used to classify projects as “reuse” or “effluent disposal” are contained in Rule 62-610.810, F.A.C.

(50) “Reuse authority” means a utility, municipality, cooperative, authority, or other entity which obtains reclaimed water from two or more utilities, municipalities, or other entities and develops and operates a reclaimed water distribution system for the distribution of reclaimed water to one or more users of reclaimed water.

(51) “Secondary treatment” means the same as defined in Rule 62-600.200, F.A.C.

(52) “Secretary” means the same as defined in Section 403.803(12), F.S.

(53) “Septic tank” means a watertight receptacle constructed to promote separation of solid and liquid components of wastewater, to provide limited digestion of organic matter, to store solids, and to allow clarified liquid to discharge for further treatment and disposal in a soil absorption system.

(54) “Sodium adsorption ratio (SAR)” means the concentration of sodium (Na) divided by the square root of the quantity equal to one half of the sum of the concentrations of calcium (Ca) and magnesium (Mg), where all concentrations are expressed in milliequivalents per liter.

(55) “Stream dilution ratio” means the flow rate in the receiving surface water at a point immediately upstream of the discharge divided by the flow rate of the discharge from a limited wet weather discharge.

(56) “Subsurface application system” means a network of small diameter, porous or perforated pipes installed horizontally at depths generally less than 12 inches for the purpose of releasing reclaimed water at or near the root zone of the vegetated cover. The release of reclaimed water shall be below the ground surface. This type of application system shall be permitted under Part II, III, or IV of this chapter, depending on the loading rates used, degree of public access, characteristics of the site, system design, and mode of operation.

(57) “Subsurface drain” means an underground conduit system (which may include one or more vertical water wells) made of various construction materials (e.g., tile) installed to collect unconfined ground water and applied reclaimed water or effluents, and provide conveyance to the treatment plant or discharge point; underdrain.

(58) “Surface water” means surface water as defined in Section 373.019(21), F.S.

(59) “Technology-based efflent limitation (TBEL)” means the same as defined in Rule 62-600.200, F.A.C.

(60) “Total Kjeldahl Nitrogen (TKN)” means the same as defined in Rule 62-600.200, F.A.C.

(61) “Total suspended solids (TSS)” means the same as defined in Rule 62-600.200, F.A.C.

(62) “Treatment” means the same as defined in Rule 62-600.200, F.A.C.

(63) “Treatment plant” means the same as domestic wastewater treatment plant as defined in Section 403.866(2), F.S.

(64) “Turbidity” means a condition in water or wastewater caused by the presence of suspended matter, resulting in the scattering and absorption of light rays, as determined using approved methods.

(65) “Type I facility” means the same as defined in Rule 62-600.200, F.A.C.

(66) “Type II facility” means the same as defined in Rule 62-600.200, F.A.C.

(67) “Type III facility” means the same as defined in Rule 62-600.200, F.A.C.

(68) “Underground injection” means the same as defined in Rule 62-600.200, F.A.C.

(69) “Unrestricted access” means that access to the reuse site by the general public is uncontrolled or that the site is frequently used by humans. An area having unrestricted access is a “public access area” as defined in subsection 62-610.200(42), F.A.C.

(70) “Underground source of drinking water (USDW)” means the same as defined in Rule 62-528.200, F.A.C.

(71) “User of reclaimed water” means an individual, corporation, entity, business, or other establishment that receives reclaimed water from a reclaimed water distribution system.

(72) “Wastes” means the same as defined in Section 403.031(12), F.S.

(73) “Wastewater” means same as defined in Rule 62-600.200, F.A.C.

(74) “Wastewater facilities” means the same as defined in Rule 62-620.200, F.A.C.

(75) “Waters” means the same as defined in Section 403.031(13), F.S.

(76) “Water quality-based effluent limitation (WQBEL)” means the same as defined in Rule 62-600.200, F.A.C.

(77) “Water quality standards” means the same as defined in Rule 62-600.200, F.A.C.

(78) “Water table” means the the same as defined in Rule 62-600.200, F.A.C.

(79) “Wellhead protection area” means the same as defined in Rule 62-521.200, F.A.C.

(80) “Zone of Discharge” means the same as defined in Rule 62-520.200, F.A.C.

Rulemaking Authority 403.051, 403.061, 403.064, 403.087 FS. Law Implemented 403.021, 403.051, 403.061, 403.062, 403.064, 403.085, 403.086, 403.087, 403.088 FS. History–New 4-4-89, Amended 4-2-90, Formerly 17-610.200, Amended 1-9-96, 8-8-99, 11-19-07, 8-8-21.