Nebraska Administrative Code
Topic - HEALTH AND HUMAN SERVICES SYSTEM
Title 179 - PUBLIC WATER SYSTEMS
Chapter 8 - GROUND WATER RULE
Section 179-8-008 - REPORTING AND RECORDKEEPING FOR GROUND WATER SYSTEMS
Universal Citation: 179 NE Admin Rules and Regs ch 8 ยง 008
Current through March 20, 2024
008.01 Reporting
In addition to the requirements of 179 NAC 5-004, a ground water system regulated under this chapter must provide the following information to the Department:
1. A ground water system
conducting compliance monitoring under 179 NAC 8-006.02 must notify the
Department any time the system fails to meet any Department-specified
requirements including, but not limited to, minimum residual disinfectant
concentration, membrane operating criteria or membrane integrity, and
alternative treatment operating criteria, if operation in accordance with the
criteria or requirements is not restored within four hours. The ground water
system must notify the Department as soon as possible, but in no case later
than the end of the next business day.
2. After completing any corrective action
under 179 NAC 8-006.01, a ground water system must notify the Department within
30 days of completion of the corrective action.
3. If a ground water system subject to the
requirements of 179 NAC 8-005.01 does not conduct source water monitoring under
179 NAC
8-005.01E item 2,
the system must provide documentation to the Department within 30 days of the
total coliform positive sample that it met the Department criteria.
008.02 Recordkeeping
In addition to the requirements of 179 NAC 5-005, a ground water system regulated under this chapter must maintain the following information in its records:
1. Documentation of
corrective actions. Documentation must be kept for a period of not less than
ten years.
2. Documentation of
notice to the public as required under 179 NAC
8-006.01G.
Documentation must be kept for a period of not less than three years.
3. Records of decisions under 179 NAC
8-005.01E item 2
and records of invalidation of fecal indicator-positive ground water source
samples under 179 NAC 8-005.04. Documentation must be kept for a period of not
less than five years.
4. For
consecutive systems, documentation of notification to the wholesale system(s)
of total-coliform positive samples that are not invalidated under 179 NAC
3-004.03 through March 31, 2016, or under 179 NAC
26-005 beginning April 1, 2016.
Documentation must be kept for a period of not less than five years.
5. For systems, including wholesale systems,
that are required to perform compliance monitoring under 179 NAC 8-006.02:
a. Records of the Department-specified
minimum disinfectant residual. Documentation must be kept for a period of not
less than ten years.
b. Records of
the lowest daily residual disinfectant concentration and records of the date
and duration of any failure to maintain the Department-prescribed minimum
residual disinfectant concentration for a period of more than four hours.
Documentation must be kept for a period of not less than five years.
c. Records of Department-specified compliance
requirements for membrane filtration and of parameters specified by the
Department for Department-approved alternative treatment and records of the
date and duration of any failure to meet the membrane operating, membrane
integrity, or alternative treatment operating requirements for more than four
hours. Documentation must be kept for a period of not less than five
years.
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