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Attachment E E-4
<br /> Reissued Waste Discharge Requirements General Order R5-2013-0122
<br /> Existing Milk Cow Dairies
<br /> 31. "Order" is defined as the Waste Discharge Requirements General Order.
<br /> 32. "Overflow" is defined as the intentional or unintentional diversion of flow from the
<br /> collection, treatment, land application, and conveyance systems, including
<br /> pumping facilities.
<br /> 33. "Pollutant" is defined in Title 40 Code of Federal Regulations Section 122.2 as
<br /> "...dredged spoil, solid waste, incinerator residue, filter backwash, sewage,
<br /> garbage, sewage sludge, munitions, chemical wastes, biological materials,
<br /> radioactive materials (except those regulated under the Atomic Energy Act of
<br /> 1954, as amended (42 U.S.C. 2011 et seq.)), heat, wrecked or discarded
<br /> equipment, rock, sand, cellar dirt and industrial, municipal, and agricultural waste
<br /> discharged into water."
<br /> 34. "Pollution" is defined in Water Code section 13050(1)(1) as ::.an alteration of the
<br /> quality of the waters of the state by waste to a degree which unreasonably affects
<br /> either of the following: (A) The waters for beneficial uses. (8) Facilities which serve
<br /> these beneficial uses."
<br /> 35. "Pond" is defined as retention ponds, storage ponds, settling ponds, or any
<br /> structures used for the treatment, storage, disposal, and recycling of process
<br /> wastewater. Ponds are differentiated from sumps, which are structures in a
<br /> conveyance system used for the installation and operation of a pump.
<br /> 36. "Process wastewater" is defined as water directly or indirectly used in the operation
<br /> of a milk cow dairy for any or all of the following: spillage or overflow from animal
<br /> watering systems; washing, cleaning, or flushing pens, barns, manure pits, or other
<br /> dairy facilities; washing or spray cooling of animals; or dust control...and includes
<br /> any water or precipitation and precipitation runoff which comes into contact with
<br /> any raw materials, products, or byproducts including manure, feed, milk, or
<br /> bedding.
<br /> 37. "Production area" is defined as that part of a milk cow dairy that includes the ,
<br /> barns, milk houses, corrals, milk parlors, manure and feed storage areas, process
<br /> water conveyances and any other area of the dairy facility that is not the land
<br /> application area or the ponds.
<br /> 38. "Regional Board" is defined as one of the nine California Regional Water Quality
<br /> Control Boards.
<br /> 39. "Salt" is defined as the products, other than water, of the reaction of an acid with a
<br /> base. Salts commonly break up into cations (sodium, calcium, etc.) and anions
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