2018 California Code
Health and Safety Code - HSC
DIVISION 104 - ENVIRONMENTAL HEALTH
PART 12 - DRINKING WATER
CHAPTER 4 - California Safe Drinking Water Act
ARTICLE 9 - Remedies
Section 116681.

The following definitions shall apply to this section and Sections 116682, 116684, and 116686:

(a) “Adequate supply” means sufficient water to meet residents’ health and safety needs at all times.

(b) “Affected residence” means a residence within a disadvantaged community that is reliant on a water supply that is either inadequate or unsafe and that is not served by a public water system or state small water system.

(c) “Consistently fails” means a failure to provide an adequate supply of safe drinking water.

(d) “Consolidated water system” means the public water system resulting from the consolidation of a public water system with another public water system, state small water system, or affected residences.

(e) “Consolidation” means joining two or more public water systems, state small water systems, or affected residences into a single public water system.

(f) “Disadvantaged community” means a disadvantaged community, as defined in Section 79505.5 of the Water Code.

(g) “Domestic well” means a groundwater well used to supply water for the domestic needs of an individual residence or a water system that is not a public water system and that has no more than four service connections.

(h) “Extension of service” means the provision of service through any physical or operational infrastructure arrangement other than consolidation.

(i) “Infill site” means a site within the area served by a subsumed water system that, as of the date of consolidation, is adjacent to a parcel that is developed for qualified urban uses.

(j) “Qualified urban use” means any residential, commercial, public institutional, industrial, transit or transportation facility, or retail use, or any combination of those uses.

(k) “Receiving water system” means the public water system that provides service to a subsumed water system through consolidation or extension of service.

(l) “Safe drinking water” means water that meets all primary and secondary drinking water standards.

(m) “State small water system” has the same meaning as provided in Section 116275.

(n) “Subsumed water system” means the public water system, state small water system, or affected residences consolidated into or receiving service from the receiving water system.

(Amended by Stats. 2018, Ch. 871, Sec. 2. (AB 2501) Effective January 1, 2019.)