Definitions of terms used in Aquifer Overlay District
regulations. As used in this section, the following terms shall have
the meanings indicated:
AQUIFER
A consolidated or unconsolidated geologic formation, group
of formations or part of a formation capable of yielding a significant
or economically useful amount of groundwater to wells, springs or
infiltration galleries.
AQUIFER RECHARGE AREAS
Areas that have soils and geological features that are conducive
to allowing significant amounts of surface water to percolate into
groundwater.
CHLORIDE SALT
Any bulk quantities of chloride compounds and other deicing
compounds intended for application to roads, including mixes of sand
and chloride compounds in any proportion where the chloride compounds
constitute over 8% of the mixture. A bulk quantity of chloride compounds
means a quantity of 1,000 pounds or more but does not include any
chloride compounds in a solid form, including granules, which are
packaged in waterproof bags or containers which do not exceed 100
pounds each.
COMMUNITY WATER SYSTEM
A public water system which serves at least five service
connections used by year-round residents or regularly serves at least
25 year-round residents.
DECLARED WELLHEAD
The exact, described location where a public water supply
well can be accessed from the ground surface.
DISCHARGE
Any intentional or unintentional action or omission resulting
in the releasing, spilling, leaking, pumping, pouring, emitting, emptying,
or dumping into the waters of the state or onto lands from which the
discharged substances or materials might flow or drain into said waters,
or into waters outside the jurisdiction of the state, when damage
may result to the lands, waters, or natural resources within the jurisdiction
of the state.
FERTILIZER
Any commercially produced mixture generally containing phosphorous,
nitrogen, and potassium which is applied to the ground to increase
nutrients to plants.
GROUNDWATER
Water contained in interconnected pores and fractures located
below the water table in an unconfined aquifer or in a confined aquifer.
HERBICIDE
Any substance or mixture of substances intended for preventing,
destroying, repelling, or mitigating any weed, and being those substances
defined as herbicides pursuant to Environmental Conservation Law § 33-0101.
MANURE
Animal feces and urine.
NONPOINT DISCHARGE
Discharges of pollutants not subject to SPDES (State Pollutant
Discharge Elimination System) permit requirements.
NONTRANSIENT NONCOMMUNITY WATER SYSTEM
A public water system that is not a community water system
but is a subset of a noncommunity water system that regularly serves
at least 25 of the same persons, four or more hours per day, for four
or more days per week, for 26 or more weeks per year.
OPEN STORAGE
The holding of a material in a way that the material is exposed
to the elements of nature.
PEST:
(1)
Any insect, rodent, fungus or weed; or
(2)
Any other form of terrestrial or aquatic plant
or animal life or virus, bacteria or other microorganism (except viruses,
bacteria or microorganisms on or in living man or other living animals)
which the Commissioner of Environmental Conservation declares to be
a pest as provided by Environmental Conservation Law § 33-0101.
PESTICIDE
Any substance or mixture of substances intended for preventing,
destroying, repelling, or mitigating any pest, and any substance or
mixture of substances intended for use as a plant regulator, defoliant
or desiccant, and being those substances defined as pesticides pursuant
to Environmental Conservation Law § 33-0101 et seq.
POINT SOURCE DISCHARGE
Pollutants discharged from a point source as defined in Environmental
Conservation Law § 17-0105.
POLLUTANT
Any material or by-product determined or suspected to be
hazardous to human or environmental health.
PUBLIC WATER SYSTEM
A community, noncommunity or nontransient noncommunity water
system which provides piped water to the public for human consumption,
if such system has at least five service connections or regularly
services an average of at least 25 individuals daily at least 60 days
out of the year. Such term includes:
(1)
Collection, treatment, storage, and distribution
facilities under control of the supplier of water of such system and
used with such system; and
(2)
Collection or pretreatment storage facilities
not under such control which are used with such system.
RECYCLABLES HANDLING AND RECOVERY FACILITY
A solid waste management facility, other than pickup and
transfer vehicles, at which recyclables are separated from the solid
waste stream, or at which previously separated recyclables are collected,
for collection, storage, and off-site shipment.
STRUCTURE
A static construction of building materials affixed to the
ground, such as a building, dam, display stand, gasoline pump, installed
mobile home or trailer, reviewing stand, shed, sign, stadium, storage
bin, or wall.
SUPPLIER OF WATER
Any person who owns, operates, or formally takes part in
the protection of a public or private water supply.
UPLAND AQUIFER ZONE
The area delineated as Upland Aquifer Zone on the Aquifer
Overlay District Map.
VALLEY BOTTOM AQUIFER SYSTEM (VBAS)
The integrated aquifer system and its immediate recharge
areas found in the valley bottom in the Town of Dover.
(1)
The VBAS includes the following:
(a)
All locations where outcrops of the Wappinger
group geologic formation are present at grade.
(b)
All locations where the Wappinger group geologic
formation is the first bedrock formation found under unconsolidated
soil materials.
(c)
All overburden soils (sand, gravel, clay, till,
etc.) overlying the Wappinger group geologic formation.
(d)
All locations which do not overlie the Wappinger
group geologic formation but where moderately or highly permeable
overburden soils (K greater than 10-5 cm/sec),
including stratified silt, sand, and/or gravel, are hydraulically
connected to, and contiguous to, overburden soils overlying the Wappinger
group geologic formation.
(2)
Further explanation of the VBAS is published
in a 1998 water resources report prepared for the Town of Dover by
the Chazen Companies.
WAPPINGER GROUP GEOLOGIC FORMATION
The Cambrian-Ordovician carbonate shelf sequence in the Hudson
Valley, equivalent to the Stockbridge formation in Connecticut. The
Wappinger group formation includes the Stissing Dolostone, the Pine
Plains Formation, the Briarcliff Dolostone, the Halcyon Lake Formation,
the Rochdale Limestone, and the Copake Limestone, or equivalent units
to these same. As an easy geologic test, any rock formation which,
when scraped, will provide bubbles in the presence of muriatic acid
(0.1M HCl) is probably a member of the Wappinger group geologic formation.
WASTEWATER
Aqueously carried waste, including but not limited to dredge
spoil, solid waste, hazardous waste, incinerator ash and residue,
septage, garbage, refuse, sludge, chemical waste, infectious waste,
biological material, radioactive materials, heat, and industrial,
municipal and agricultural waste.
WASTEWATER TREATMENT SYSTEM
Any treatment plant, sewer, disposal field, lagoon, pumping
station, septic system, collection and distribution pipes, on-site
disposal systems and seepage units, constructed drainage ditch or
surface water intercepting ditch, or other systems not specifically
mentioned in this definition, installed for the purpose of transport,
treatment, neutralization, stabilization, storage, or disposal of
wastewater.
WATERCOURSE
Every spring, stream, wetland, marsh, water channel, or water
body from which water may flow in the Town of Dover.
WATERSHED
That land area which contributes water to a specific stream,
aquifer, or aquifer recharge area or portion(s) thereof and which
includes the Aquifer Overlay District Zones II and III.
WELL
Any present or future artificial excavation used as a source
of public or private water supply which derives water from the interstices
of the rocks or soils which it penetrates, including bored wells,
drilled wells, driven wells, infiltration galleries, and trenches
with perforated piping, but excluding ditches or tunnels, used to
convey groundwater to the surface.
WELLHEAD BUFFER ZONE
The area within a radius of 200 feet from any identified
or declared well within the Aquifer Overlay District.
WELLHEAD PROTECTION ZONE
A protective zone or region surrounding or near a wellhead
through which aquifer recharge enters the subsurface and flows toward
a public water system well. For purposes of this section, an area
which allows normal infiltration equaling the daily water requirements
of the water system may be considered an adequate wellhead protection
zone.