Appendix A - SUBCLASSES OF CLASS V FACILITIES
SUBCLASS DESCRIPTION
HEATING AND COOLING FACILITIES
5A1 Direct Heat Reinjection Facilities - Reinject geothermal fluids used to provide direct heat for large buildings, developments or aquiculture facilities.
5A2 Heat Pump/Air Conditioner Return Flow Facilities - Reinject groundwater used to heat or cool a building in a ground based heat pump system, or used to inject heat only using a closed loop heat pump system.
5A3 Cooling Water Return Flow Facilities - Receive non-contact cooling water from industrial processes, both open and closed loop processes.
BENEFICIAL USE INJECTION FACILITIES
5B1 Mining, Sand or Backfill Facilities - Used to inject a fluid mixture of sand, cement, fly ash used as a pozzalin, or mill tailings into mined out portions of underground mines.
5B2 Aquifer Recharge Facilities - Receive water specifically for storage of water underground. Must be coupled with the ability to withdraw stored water at a later date for beneficial use. Coal bed methane operators cannot dispose of their produced water in class 5B2 injection wells after the effective date of these rules.
5B3 Saline Water Intrusion Barrier Facilities - Receive fresh water to prevent the continued migration of saline water into a fresh water aquifer. Includes projects installed to control contaminant plumes by injection of clean water.
5B4 Subsidence Control Facilities - Receive fresh water for the purpose of controlling subsidence caused by an overdraft of water, oil or natural gas.
5B5 Facilities which inject fluids and are used to prevent, control or remediate aquifer pollution, which are not owned or controlled by the Department of Environmental Quality. All 5B5 facilities are covered under Article 16 of the Environmental Quality Act.
5B6 Department Controlled Facilities - Facilities which inject fluids and are used to prevent, control or remediate pollution, remediate subsiding mine sites, or produce other beneficial results which are owned or controlled by the Department of Environmental Quality. These facilities include but are not limited to, facilities under the supervision of Water Quality Division's Underground Storage Tank Program, facilities under the control and direction of the Abandoned Mined Lands Program, and facilities under the supervision of the Solid and Hazardous Waste Management Division. Control may be exercised through ownership, operation, or by administrative orders, stipulated settlements, consent decrees or other legal methods which result in control of a facility by the department.
5B7 Air sparging facilities - Facilities used to inject only air for the purpose of either encouraging microbial breakdown of hydrocarbons or removing of volatile chemicals by vapor extraction.
COMMERCIAL AND INDUSTRIAL FACILITIES
5C1 Air Scrubber Waste Disposal Facilities - Inject wastes from air scrubbers used to remove sulphur, fly ash, or other contaminants.
5C2 Water Treatment Brine Disposal Facilities - Receive brine from water softening or other water treatment.
5C3 Industrial Process Water and Waste Disposal Facilities - Receive wastes generated by industrial and commercial processes. Examples include but are not limited to wastes from car washing, taxidermy, metal plating, printing, silk screening, refining, slaughter houses, and chemical manufacturing companies.
5C4 Automotive Waste Disposal Facilities - Inject waste from floor drains or sinks where repair work is done on machinery of any description.
5C5 Coal Bed Methane Injection Facilities - Inject groundwater produced in the process of coal bed methane extraction into a receiving aquifer containing water of the same or lower class of use.
5C6 Small Commercial Disposal Systems - Inject wastewater which is of similar quality to domestic sewage which does not technically meet the definition of domestic sewage, in quantities of less than 2,000 gallons per day.
DRAINAGE FACILITIES
5D1 Agricultural Drainage Facilities - Receive irrigation tailwaters, other field drainage, animal yard, feedlot, or dairy runoff, and other agricultural wastewater.
5D2 Storm Water Drainage Facilities - Receive storm water runoff from paved areas, including parking lots, streets, residential subdivisions, building roofs, highways, etc.
5D3 Improved Sinkholes - Receive storm water runoff from developments located in karst topographic areas.
5D4 Industrial Drainage Facilities - Receive storm runoff from areas susceptible to spills, leaks, and other chemical discharges.
5D5 Special Drainage Facilities - Receive water from sources other than direct precipitation. Examples of this type include landslide control drainage facilities, potable water tank overflow drainage facilities, swimming pool drainage facilities, and lake level control drainage facilities.
SEWAGE DISPOSAL FACILITIES
5E1 Aquaculture Return Flow Facilities - Receive injectate from aquaculture operations.
5E2 Untreated Domestic sewage Disposal Facilities - Receive untreated domestic sewage from single or multiple sources. Does not include subsurface fluid distribution systems with septic tanks ahead of the subsurface fluid distribution system. Includes all cesspools, regardless of capacity.
5E3 Domestic Subsurface Fluid Distribution Systems - Receive more than 2,000 gallons per day of domestic sewage with only primary treatment such as effluent from a septic tank. In addition, any facility injecting domestic sewage within any five (5) acres of land is a class 5E3 facility whenever multiple 5E facilities under one owner inject a cumulative maximum peak design flow of more than 2,000 gallons per day of domestic sewage.
5E4 Domestic Wastewater Treatment Plant Disposal Facilities - Dispose of treated domestic waste after treatment to at least secondary treatment standards.
5E5 Small Domestic Subsurface Fluid Distribution Systems - Receive less than 2,000 gallons per day as an average of a typical week, of domestic sewage with only primary treatment in a septic tank. These systems are designed to accept more than 2,000 gallons per day at a peak and are not small wastewater systems. No class 5E5 system has a required design capacity in excess of 5,000 gallons per day.
MISCELLANEOUS CLASS V FACILITIES
5F1 Cathodic Protection Facilities - Facilities constructed with coke breeze and dust control oil for use as a permanent anode in a cathodic protection system for a fluid conveyor system or fluid containment system composed of metallic material.
5F2 All other facilities that inject fluids into or above an underground source of drinking water which do not fall into Classes I, II, III, or IV injection facilities.