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Point source discharge definition

Point source discharge means any discernible, confined, and discrete conveyance, including, but
Point source discharge 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 a pollutant is or may be discharged.
Point source discharge. (PSD) means an outfall from a drainage system to waters of the state, or a point where a storm water drainage system discharges into a system operated by another public body.

Examples of Point source discharge in a sentence

  • Point source discharge (dewatering) of effluent into wetlands is prohibited.

  • Point source discharge of water is prohibited during the cleaning of a spraying tank.

  • Provide oversight and guidance as appropriate to facilitate development of NOAA’s investment strategy that supports the high level strategic guidance issued by the Department of Commerce, NOAA (e.g., the NOAA Annual Guidance Memorandum), and relevant LOs and Staff Offices, as well as the principles articulated in NAO 212-16.

  • Point source discharge to surface water constitutes only 1 to 2 percent of the mercury load to surface water.

  • Point source discharge data analysis The input of MTBE from POTW and refinery discharges was estimated using data from a statewide special study of MTBE concentrations in National Pollutant Discharge Elimination System (NPDES) effluents conducted during May-September 1999.


More Definitions of Point source discharge

Point source discharge means a discharge which is released to the Waters of the State by a discernible, confined and discrete conveyance, including but not limited to a pipe, ditch, channel, tunnel, conduit, well, discrete fissure, container, rolling stock, concentrated animal feeding operation, vessel, or other floating craft from which waste is or may be discharged. Typical point source dischargers include discharges from publicly owned treatment works (POTWs), discharges from industrial facilities, and discharges associated with urban runoff.
Point source discharge means any discernible, confined, and discrete conveyance, including, but not limited to, any of the following from which pollutants are or may be discharged:
Point source discharge 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, landfill leachate collection system, vessel, or other floating craft from which pollutants are or may be discharged. This term does not include return flows from irrigated agriculture or agricultural storm water run-off.
Point source discharge means a discharge that is released to the waters of the state by a discernible, confined, and discrete conveyance, including any of the following from which wastewater is or may be discharged:
Point source discharge means a discharge of an effluent or other matter to the water environment or land by a fixed installation, pipe, outlet or otherwise;
Point source discharge means a discharge which is released to the waters of the State by a discernible, confined and discrete conveyance, including but not limited to a pipe, ditch, channel, tunnel, conduit, well, discrete fissure, container, rolling stock, concentrated animal feeding operation, vessel, or other floating craft from which waste is or may be discharged.
Point source discharge means the discharge of wastes or wastewater from any building, residential, commercial or industrial building, confined animal facility, aquaculture facility waste, or waste treatment facility, that is discharged through a gravity or pressure pipe into a receiving water.