Water pollution definition

Water pollution means the unpermitted release of sediment from disturbed areas, solid waste or waste-derived constituents, or leachate to the waters of the state.
Water pollution means contaminating or rendering unclean or impure the ground or surface waters of the state, or making the same injurious to public health, harmful for commercial or recreational use, or deleterious to fish, bird, animal, or plant life.
Water pollution means the contamination or alteration of the physical, chemical, biological, or radiological integrity of any water of the state by a source resulting in whole or in part from the activities of humans, which is harmful, detrimental, or injurious to public health, safety, or welfare, to domestic, commercial, industrial, agricultural, or recreational use or to livestock, wild animals, birds, fish, or other aquatic life.

Examples of Water pollution in a sentence

  • CROSS REFERENCES Power to provide and regulate water system - see Ohio R.C. 715.08, 717.01, 743.01 Water pollution - see Ohio R.C. 715.08, 743.25 Compulsory water connections - see Ohio R.C. 729.06, 743.23 Management and control of water works - see Ohio R.C. 735.28 et seq.


More Definitions of Water pollution

Water pollution means such contamination, or other alteration of the physical, chemical, or biological properties of any waters of the state, including change in temperature, taste, color, turbidity, or odor of the waters, or such discharge of any liquid, gaseous, solid, radioactive, or other substance into any waters of the state as will or is likely to create a nuisance or render such waters harmful, detrimental, or injurious to the public health, safety, or welfare, or to domestic, commercial, industrial, agricultural, recreational, or other legitimate beneficial uses, or to livestock, wild animals, birds, fish, or other aquatic life.
Water pollution means introducing or permitting the introduction into water, either directly or indirectly, of one or more water contaminants in such quantity and of such duration as may with reasonable probability injure human health, animal or plant life or property, or to unreasonably interfere with the public welfare or property use.
Water pollution means (a) the discharge of any pollutant into any waters of the state or the contamination of any waters of the state so as to create a nuisance or render such waters unclean, or noxious, or impure so as to be actually or potentially harmful or detrimental or injurious to public health, safety or welfare, to domestic, agricultural, commercial, industrial, recreational or other legitimate uses, or to livestock, animals, birds, fish or other aquatic life; or (b) the alteration made or induced by human activity of the chemical, physical, biological, or radiological integrity of waters of the state.[Minn. Stat. 115.01, subd. 13] 27.42 "Water Quality Standards" means those provisions contained in Minn. R. 7050 and 7052. [Minn. R. 7090] 27.43 "Water Quality Volume" means either:
Water pollution means contamination or other alteration of the physical, chemical, or biological properties of any waters of the state, including change in temperature, taste, color, turbidity, or odor; or any discharge of a liquid, gas, solid, radioactive substance, or other substance into any waters of the state that creates a nuisance or renders the waters harmful, detrimental, or injurious to the public, to ben- eficial uses, or to livestock, wild animals, birds, fish, or other aquatic life.
Water pollution means the introduction of matter or thermal energy to waters
Water pollution means such alteration of the physical, chemical, or biological properties of any state water as will or is likely to create a nuisance or render such waters:
Water pollution means such contamination, or other alteration