Title 19 Environmental Quality Code
Chapter 5 Water Quality Act
Section 102 Definitions.
19-5-102. Definitions.
As used in this chapter:
(1) "Board" means the Water Quality Board created in Section 19-1-106.
(2) "Contaminant" means any physical, chemical, biological, or radiological substance or
matter in water.
(3) "Discharge" means the addition of any pollutant to any waters of the state.
(4) "Discharge permit" means a permit issued to a person who:
(a) discharges or whose activities would probably result in a discharge of pollutants into
the waters of the state; or
(b) generates or manages sewage sludge.
(5) "Disposal system" means a system for disposing of wastes, and includes sewerage
systems and treatment works.
(6) "Effluent limitations" means any restrictions, requirements, or prohibitions, including
schedules of compliance established under this chapter which apply to discharges.
(7) "Executive secretary" means the executive secretary of the board.
(8) "Point source":
(a) means any discernible, confined, and discrete conveyance, including but not limited to
any pipe, ditch, channel, tunnel, conduit, well, discrete fissure, container, rolling stock,
concentrated animal feeding operation, or vessel or other floating craft, from which pollutants are
or may be discharged; and
(b) does not include return flows from irrigated agriculture.
(9) "Pollution" means any man-made or man-induced alteration of the chemical, physical,
biological, or radiological integrity of any waters of the state, unless the alteration is necessary for
the public health and safety.
(10) "Publicly owned treatment works" means any facility for the treatment of pollutants
owned by the state, its political subdivisions, or other public entity.
(11) "Schedule of compliance" means a schedule of remedial measures, including an
enforceable sequence of actions or operations leading to compliance with this chapter.
(12) "Sewage sludge" means any solid, semisolid, or liquid residue removed during the
treatment of municipal wastewater or domestic sewage.
(13) "Sewerage system" means pipelines or conduits, pumping stations, and all other
constructions, devices, appurtenances, and facilities used for collecting or conducting wastes to a
point of ultimate disposal.
(14) "Treatment works" means any plant, disposal field, lagoon, dam, pumping station,
incinerator, or other works used for the purpose of treating, stabilizing, or holding wastes.
(15) "Underground injection" means the subsurface emplacement of fluids by well
injection.
(16) "Underground wastewater disposal system" means a system for disposing of
domestic wastewater discharges as defined by the board and the executive director.
(17) "Waste" or "pollutant" means dredged spoil, solid waste, incinerator residue,
sewage, garbage, sewage sludge, munitions, chemical wastes, biological materials, radioactive
materials, heat, wrecked or discarded equipment, rock, sand, cellar dirt, and industrial, municipal,
and agricultural waste discharged into water.
(18) "Waters of the state":
(a) means all streams, lakes, ponds, marshes, watercourses, waterways, wells, springs,
irrigation systems, drainage systems, and all other bodies or accumulations of water, surface and
underground, natural or artificial, public or private, which are contained within, flow through, or
border upon this state or any portion of the state; and
(b) does not include bodies of water confined to and retained within the limits of private
property, and which do not develop into or constitute a nuisance, a public health hazard, or a
menace to fish or wildlife.
Amended by Chapter 274, 2001 General Session
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