S.D. Admin. R. 74:04:11:01

Current through Register Vol. 51, page 67, December 16, 2024

Section 74:04:11:01 - Definitions

Terms used in this chapter mean:

(1) "Community water system," "CWS," a public water system that serves at least 15 service connections used by year-round residents or regularly serves at least 25 year-round residents. The term includes any collection, treatment, storage, and distribution facilities under control of the operator of the system and used primarily in connection with the system and any collection or pretreatment storage facilities not under such control that are used primarily in connection with the system;

(2) "Department," the Department of Environment and Natural Resources;

(3) "Groundwater under the direct influence of surface water," "GWUDISW," any water beneath the surface of the ground with a significant occurrence of insects, macroorganisms, algae, or large-diameter pathogens such as Giardia lamblia or Cryptosporidium, or significant and relatively rapid shifts in water quality characteristics such as turbidity, temperature, conductivity, or pH that closely correlate to climatological or surface water conditions. The department makes a GWUDISW determination based on site-specific water quality measurements and information specific to the water source and geology;

(4) "Nontransient, noncommunity water system," "NTNC," a public water system that is not a community water system and that regularly serves at least 25 of the same persons at such places as work places, offices, and schools for at least 6 months a year;

(5) "Significant deficiency," any defect in a systems design components, operation, maintenance, or administration, as well as any failure or malfunction of any system component, that the department determines to cause, or have the potential to cause, an unacceptable risk to public health or that could affect the reliable delivery of safe drinking water;

(6) "Sanitary survey," an onsite review of the water source, facilities, equipment, operation, maintenance, and monitoring compliance of a public water system for the purpose of evaluating the adequacy of the drinking water system, its source, treatment, and distribution, to produce and distribute a reliable and safe supply of drinking water;

(7) "Transient noncommunity water system," "TWS," a noncommunity water system that does not regularly serve at least 25 of the same persons over six months per year; and

(8) "Type H systems," public water systems owning a surface water or groundwater under the direct influence of a surface water source that is subject to the requirements of § 74:04:12:22;

(9) "Type S systems," public water systems that use groundwater. Type S systems do not include public water systems that combine all of their groundwater with surface water or with groundwater under the direct influence of surface water before treatment as a Type H system. Type S systems include consecutive systems receiving finished groundwater.

S.D. Admin. R. 74:04:11:01

29 SDR 80, effective 12/10/2002; 36 SDR 111, effective 1/11/2010.

General Authority: SDCL 34A-3A-25.

Law Implemented: SDCL 34A-3A-25(4).