Senate Bill sb2296

    Florida Senate - 2001        (NP)                      SB 2296

    By Senator Jones





    40-1481-01

  1                      A bill to be entitled

  2         An act relating to Monroe County; amending ch.

  3         99-395, Laws of Florida; establishing effluent

  4         water quality standards for reuse systems;

  5         providing an effective date.

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  7  Be It Enacted by the Legislature of the State of Florida:

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  9         Section 1.  Subsection (8) of section 6 of chapter

10  99-395, Laws of Florida, is amended to read:

11         Section 6.  Sewage requirements in Monroe County.--

12         (8)  The requirements of subsections (2)-(7) do not

13  apply to the following:

14         (a)  Class 1 injection wells as defined by Department

15  of Environmental Protection rule, including any authorized

16  mechanical integrity tests.

17         (b)  Authorized mechanical integrity tests associated

18  with Class V wells as defined by Department of Environmental

19  Protection rule.

20         (c)  The following types of reuse systems authorized by

21  Department of Environmental Protection domestic wastewater

22  rules:

23         1.  Slow-rate land application systems;

24         2.  Industrial uses of reclaimed water; and

25         3.  Use of reclaimed water for toilet flushing, fire

26  protection, vehicle washing, construction dust control, and

27  decorative water features.

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29  However, disposal systems serving as backups to reuse systems

30  shall be required to meet the following effluent water quality

31  limitations comply with the other provisions of this act.

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    Florida Senate - 2001        (NP)                      SB 2296
    40-1481-01




  1  Systems discharging less than 100,000 gallons per day based on

  2  the annual average daily flows to the backup system, including

  3  any other discharge of effluent to the backup system or other

  4  injection wells, shall provide a level of treatment that will

  5  produce an effluent that contains, on an annual average basis,

  6  not more than 10 milligrams per liter of biochemical oxygen

  7  demand, 10 milligrams per liter of suspended solids, 10

  8  milligrams per liter of total nitrogen, and 1 milligram per

  9  liter of total phosphorous. Systems discharging 100,000

10  gallons per day or more based on the annual average daily

11  flows to the backup system, including any other discharge of

12  effluent to the backup system or other injection wells, shall

13  provide a level of treatment that will produce an effluent

14  that contains, on an annual average basis, not more than 5

15  milligrams per liter of biochemical oxygen demand, 5

16  milligrams per liter of suspended solids, 3 milligrams per

17  liter of total nitrogen, and 1 milligram per liter of total

18  phosphorous. Such systems must comply with the reuse rules of

19  the Department of Environmental Protection.

20         Section 2.  This act shall take effect upon becoming a

21  law.

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