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Attachment E E-2 <br /> Reissued Waste Discharge Requirements General Order R5-2013-0122 <br /> Existing Milk Cow Dairies <br /> 10. "Degradation" is defined as any measurable adverse change in water quality. <br /> 11. "Discharge" is defined as the discharge or release of waste to land, surface water, <br /> or ground water. <br /> 12. "Discharger" is defined as the property owner and the operator of an existing milk <br /> cow dairy subject to Reissued Waste Discharge Requirements General Order <br /> R5-2013-0122. <br /> 13. "Existing Milk Cow Dairies" means all dairies that were operating as of 17 October <br /> 2005, filed a complete Report of Waste Discharge in response to the 2005 Report <br /> of Waste Discharge Request Letter, and have not expanded. <br /> 14. "Existing herd size" is defined as the maximum number of mature dairy cows <br /> reported in the Report of Waste Discharge filed in response to the 2005 Report of <br /> Waste Discharge Request Letter, plus or minus 15 percent of that reported number <br /> to account for the normal variation in herd sizes. <br /> 15. "Expansion" is defined as, but not limited to, any increase in the existing herd size <br /> (i.e., by more than 15 percent of the maximum number of mature dairy cows filed <br /> in response to the 2005 Report of Waste Discharge Request Letter) or an increase <br /> in the storage capacity of the retention ponds or acquisition of more acreage for <br /> reuse of nutrients from manure or process wastewater in order to accommodate an <br /> expansion of the existing herd size. "Expansion" does not include installation or <br /> modification of facilities or equipment to achieve compliance with the requirements <br /> of Reissued Waste Discharge Requirements General Order R5-2013-0122 so long <br /> as the modification or installation is sized to accommodate only the existing herd <br /> size. <br /> 16. "Facility" is defined as the property identified as such in Reissued Waste Discharge <br /> Requirements General Order R5-2013-0122. <br /> 17. "Field moisture capacity" is defined as "the upper limit of storable water in the soil <br /> once free drainage has occurred after irrigation or precipitation." <br /> 18. "Freeboard" is defined as the elevation difference between the process wastewater <br /> (liquid) level in a pond and the lowest point of the pond embankment before it can <br /> overflow. <br /> 19. "Incorporation into soil" is defined as the complete infiltration of process <br /> wastewater into the soil, the disking or rotary tiller mixing of manure into the soil, <br /> shank injection of slurries into soil, or other equally effective methods <br />