2021 Utah Code
Title 19 - Environmental Quality Code
Chapter 4 - Safe Drinking Water Act
Section 102 - Definitions.

Affected by 63I-1-219 on 7/1/2024

• (1) "Board" means the Drinking Water Board appointed under Section 19-4-103.

• (2) "Community water system" means a public water system that serves residents year-round.

• (3) "Contaminant" means a physical, chemical, biological, or radiological substance or matter in water.

• (4) "Director" means the director of the Division of Drinking Water.

• (5) "Division" means the Division of Drinking Water, created in Subsection 19-1-105(1)(b).

• (6)
  • (a) "Groundwater source" means an underground opening from or through which groundwater flows or is pumped from a subsurface water-bearing formation.
  • (b) "Groundwater source" includes:
    • (i) a well;
    • (ii) a spring;
    • (iii) a tunnel; or
    • (iv) an adit.

• (7) "Maximum contaminant level" means the maximum permissible level of a contaminant in water that is delivered to a user of a public water system.

• (8)
  • (a) "Public water system" means a system providing water for human consumption and other domestic uses that:
    • (i) has at least 15 service connections; or
    • (ii) serves an average of 25 individuals daily for at least 60 days of the year.
  • (b) "Public water system" includes:
    • (i) a collection, treatment, storage, or distribution facility under the control of the operator and used primarily in connection with the system; and
    • (ii) a collection, pretreatment, or storage facility used primarily in connection with the system but not under the operator's control.

• (9) "Retail water supplier" means a person that:
  • (a) supplies water for human consumption and other domestic uses to an end user; and
  • (b) has more than 500 service connections.

• (10) "Supplier" means a person who owns or operates a public water system.

• (11) "Wholesale water supplier" means a person that provides most of that person's water to a retail water supplier.