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STANDARD PROVISIONS AND REPORTING REQUIREMENTS September 1993 FOR WASTE DISCHARGE REQUIREMENTS FOR DISCHARGES REGULATED BY CHAPTER 15 AND/OR PART 258 -21- a. Ground water in the uppermost aquifer, in any other portion of the zone of saturation in which it would be reasonable to anticipate that waste constituents migrating from the WMU could be detected, and in any perched zones underlying the WMU. b. Any bodies of surface water that could be measurably affected by a release, C. Soil pore liquid beneath and/or adjacent to the WMU, and d. Soil pore gas beneath and/or adjacent to the Unit. 15. "Monitoring Point" means a device (e.g., well) or location(e.g., a specific point along a lakeshore), downgradient from the landfill and that is assiened in this Order. at which samples are collected for the purpose of detecting a release by comparison with samples collected at Background Monitoring Points. 16. "Monthly average concentration" means the arithmetic mean of measurements made during the month. 17. "Monthly average discharge" means the total discharge by volume during a calendar month divided by the number of days in the month that the facility was discharging (e.g. gallons per day, cubic feet per day). Where less than daily sampling is required by this Order, the monthly average shall be determined by the summation of all the measured discharges divided by the number of days during the month when the measurements were made. 18. "MSWLF, or MSW landfill" means a Class H or Class III landfill unit in this region that accepts, or has accepted, municipal solid wastes, and that is subject to regulation under either or both Chapter 15 and the federal MSW regulations. 19. "Order," as used throughout this document, means the Waste Discharge Requirements. The Monitoring and Reporting Program and Standard Provisions and Reporting Requirements are incorporated by reference into the Waste Discharge Requirements. 20. "Practical quantitation limit (PQL)" means the lowest constituent concentration at which a numerical concentration can be assigned with reasonable certainty that its value represents the constituent's actual concentration in the sample. Normally PQLs should be set equal to the concentration of the lowest standard used to calibrate the analytical procedure. The PQL shall reflect the quantitation capabilities of the specific analytical procedure and equipment used by the laboratory. PQLs reported by the laboratory shall not simply be restated from U.S. EPA analytical method manuals. In relatively interference-free water, laboratory-derived PQLs are expected to closely agree with published U. S. EPA PQLs. If the lab suspects that, due to matrix or other effects, the quantitation limit for a particular analytical run differs significantly from the laboratory-derived PQL, the results should be flagged accordingly, along with an estimate of the quantitation limit achieved.