Current through Register Vol. 35, No. 18, September 24, 2024
As used in 20.7.3 NMAC.
A. Terms starting with the letter 'A' are
defined as follows:
(1) "absorption area"
means the area in square feet of infiltrative surface in a soil disposal system
designated to receive effluent from a treatment unit;
(2) "absorption bed" means a conventional
disposal bed greater than three feet in width and where the minimum horizontal
dimension is greater than the vertical dimension;
(3) "advanced treatment" means any process of
wastewater treatment that removes a greater amount of contaminants than is
accomplished through primary treatment; "advanced treatment" may include
physical or chemical processes;
(4)
"aggregate" means clean washed gravel or crushed rock, having a hardness value
of 3 or more on the Mohs scale of hardness, or a synthetic media reviewed by
the wastewater technical advisory committee and approved by the department;
shall have a minimum size of 3/4 inch and a maximum size of 2 1/2 inches, no
greater than 4% fines by weight or volume and provide no less than 35% void
space under field conditions; shall be durable, inert, maintain its integrity,
not collapse or disintegrate with time, and not be detrimental to the
performance of the system or to groundwater quality;
(5) "alternative disposal" means any approved
on-site liquid waste disposal method used in lieu of, including modifications
to, a conventional disposal method;
(6) "amendment of permit" means a change that
does not affect the permitability of a liquid waste system, including a change
of ownership or installer, and is not a "modification" as defined in this
section;
(7) "applicant" means the
owner applying for a permit to install, modify or operate an on-site liquid
waste system;
(8) "approved" means:
(a) materials, products or procedures that
have been reviewed by the wastewater technical advisory committee, if required,
and accepted for use by the department;
(b) a liquid waste system that was permitted
and installed in compliance with the standards and requirements of this
regulation and received department authorization for use;
(c) a person or entity authorized by the
department to design, install, modify or maintain liquid waste systems or a
person authorized by the department to perform site or liquid waste system
evaluations;
(d) materials,
products or procedures that are approved or meet minimum standards certified by
the international association of plumbing and mechanical officials (IAPMO), as
applicable; and
(9)
"arroyo" means a dry wash or draw that flows occasionally in response to
precipitation, a watercourse (as a creek or stream) in an arid region or a
water carved gully or channel.
B. Terms starting with the letter 'B' are
defined as follows:
(1) "bedrock" means the
more or less solid, undisturbed rock in place either at the surface or beneath
surficial deposits of gravel, sand or soil, or a consolidated rock formation of
impervious material that may exhibit jointed, fractured or deteriorated
characteristics, or the R horizon of a soil profile as defined in the United
States department of agriculture (USDA) soil survey manuals;
(2) "bedroom" means any room within a
building that is designated as a sleeping room on drawings submitted to the
responsible building permitting authority, manufactured housing authority, or
in the case of unpermitted systems, to the department;
(3) "biochemical oxygen demand" or "BOD"
means the rate at which organisms use the oxygen in water or wastewater while
stabilizing decomposable organic matter under aerobic conditions;
(4) "blackwater" means waste from a liquid
flushing toilet, urinal, kitchen sinks, dishwashers or laundry water from the
washing of material soiled with human excreta, such as diapers;
(5) "body of water" means all constrained
water including water situated wholly or partly within or bordering upon New
Mexico, whether surface or subsurface, public or private;
(6) "building drain" means that part of the
lowest piping of a drainage system that receives the collective liquid waste
discharge from soil, waste and other drainage piping inside a building and
conveys it to the building sewer that begins two feet outside the vertical
plane of the building wall, residential or commercial unit; and
(7) "building sewer" means that part of the
horizontal piping of a drainage system that extends from the end of the
building drain located two feet outside the building wall and that receives the
liquid waste discharge from the building drain and conveys it to a liquid waste
treatment unit or approved point of disposal.
C. Terms starting with the letter 'C' are
defined as follows:
(1) "canal" means a
man-made ditch or channel that carries water for purposes other than domestic
consumption;
(2) "certificate of
registration" means a permit to operate an unpermitted liquid waste system
installed prior to February 1, 2002 after an evaluation is conducted pursuant
to Subsection J of 20.7.3.401 NMAC;
(3) "cesspool" means an excavation or
non-water tight unit that receives untreated water-carried liquid waste
allowing direct discharge to the soil;
(4) "clay" means:
(a) a soil separate consisting of particles
less than 0.002 millimeters in diameter; or
(b) the textural class name of any soil that
contains 40% or more clay, less than 45% sand and less than 30% silt;
(5) "clearance" means the vertical
thickness of suitable soil between the lowest point of a liquid waste disposal
system and the seasonal high groundwater table, bedrock or other limiting
layer;
(6) "cluster system" means a
wastewater system that serves more than one unit and treats 5,000 gallons per
day or less of wastewater;
(7)
"coarse sand" means soil comprised of 25% or more of soil particles 0.5 to 2.0
mm in diameter and less than 50% of any other grade of sand;
(8) "commercial unit" means a structure that
is not a residential unit but which has sewage producing fixtures such as
sinks, baths, showers, toilets, urinals, dish- and clothes-washers or floor
drains for receiving liquid waste including but not limited to uses included in
Table 201.1;
(9) "conditional
approval" means the approval of an on-site treatment or dispersal product that
has been reviewed by the wastewater technical advisory committee and granted
permission by the department to install the product or products on a limited
number of sites for the purpose of verifying performance of the
product;
(10) "conventional
disposal" means a subsurface soil absorption system with gravity distribution
of the effluent, with or without a lift station, constructed in accordance with
the standards set forth in this regulation, including trenches, absorption beds
and seepage pits;
(11)
"conventional treatment" means a septic tank where primary treatment occurs;
and
(12) "conventional treatment
system" means an on-site liquid waste system utilizing both conventional
treatment and conventional disposal, including privies, holding tanks and
vaults.
D. Terms
starting with the letter 'D' are defined as follows:
(1) "degrade a body of water" means to reduce
the physical, chemical or biological qualities of a body of water and includes,
but is not limited to, the release of material that could result in the
exceeding of standards established by 20.6.4 NMAC, Standards for Interstate and
Intrastate Surface Waters, by 20.6.2 NMAC, Ground and Surface Water Protection
and by 20.7.10 NMAC, Drinking Water;
(2) "department" means the New Mexico
environment department;
(3) "design
flow" means the flow rate for which an on-site liquid waste system must be
designed in order to assure acceptable system performance, assuming the use of
conventional plumbing fixtures;
(4)
"disinfected" or "disinfection" means the use of any process designed to
effectively kill most micro-organisms contained in liquid waste effluent
including essentially all pathogenic (disease causing) organisms, as indicated
by the reduction of the E. coli concentration to a specific level; these
processes include, but are not limited to, suitable oxidizing agents such as
chlorine, ozone and ultraviolet light;
(5) "disposal system" means a generally
recognized system for disposing of the discharge from a liquid waste treatment
unit and includes, but is not limited to, seepage pits, drainfields,
evapotranspiration systems, sand mounds and irrigation systems;
(6) "domestic liquid waste" means wastewater
that does not exceed 300 mg/l BOD, 300 mg/l TSS, 80 mg/l total nitrogen or 105
mg/l fats, oils and grease; and
(7)
"drainage ditch" means an unlined trench dug for the purpose of draining water
from the land or for transporting water for use on the land.
E. Terms starting with the letter
'E' are defined as follows:
(1) "edge of a
watercourse, canal or arroyo" means that point of maximum curvature at the
upper edge of a definite bank or, if no definite bank exists, the highest point
where signs of seasonal high water flow exist;
(2) "effluent" means the discharge from the
final treatment unit;
(3) "effluent
disposal well" means a prohibited method of disposal consisting of a drilled,
driven or bored shaft or dug hole with depth greater than any surface
dimension, used for subsurface emplacement of liquid waste, including, but not
limited to, abandoned water supply wells, irrigation wells and test holes, but
excluding seepage pits used as disposal systems, which conform to the standards
in 20.7.3.702 NMAC;
(4) "effluent
irrigation" means the use of wastewater effluent to water landscaped areas,
fruit trees or nut trees;
(5)
"elevated system" means a system installed either partially or completely above
grade in a constructed fill area for the purpose of meeting clearance to a
limiting layer;
(6) "enclosed
system" means a watertight on-site liquid waste system that does not discharge
to the soil, including, but not limited to, holding tanks and lined
evapotranspiration systems;
(7)
"established on-site liquid waste system" means an on-site liquid waste system
that has been in active use at any time during the 10 years prior to submission
of a permit application and in compliance with any liquid waste disposal
regulation in effect at the time of installation, excluding the permitting or
registration process, but does not include cesspools installed after September
14, 1973;
(8) "evaluator" or "third
party evaluator" means a third party who has the qualifications as set forth in
Paragraph (2) of Subsection B of 20.7.3.904 NMAC;
(9) "evapotranspiration system" means a
disposal system designed to dispose of effluent through evaporation and plant
uptake and transpiration; and
(10)
"experimental approval" means the approval of an on-site treatment or dispersal
product that has been reviewed by the wastewater technical advisory committee
and granted permission by the department to install the product or products on
a very limited number of sites for the purpose of verifying performance and
obtaining advancement to conditional approval.
F. Terms starting with the letter 'F' are
defined as follows:
(1) "failed system"
means, without limitation, an on-site liquid waste system that does not operate
as permitted, that does not provide a level of treatment at least as effective
as that provided by on-site liquid waste systems that meet the requirements of
20.7.3 NMAC or that poses a hazard to public health or degrades a body of
water; and
(2) "fixture units"
means a quantity of flow as defined in the New Mexico plumbing code upon which
plumbing systems are sized.
G. Terms starting with the letter 'G' are
defined as follows:
(1) "gravel" means, for
purposes of soils classification, a soil separate consisting of particles
greater than 2 mm in diameter;
(2)
"graywater" means untreated household wastewater that has not come in contact
with toilet waste and includes wastewater from bathtubs, showers, washbasins,
clothes washing machines and laundry tubs, but does not include wastewater from
kitchen sinks, dishwashers or laundry water from the washing of material soiled
with human excreta, such as diapers; and
(3) "groundwater" means interstitial water
that occurs in saturated earth material and is capable of entering a well in
sufficient amounts to be utilized as a water supply.
H. Terms starting with the letter 'H' are
defined as follows:
(1) "hazard to public
health" means the indicated presence in water or soil of biological, chemical
or other contaminants under such conditions that could adversely impact human
health, including, but is not limited to, surfacing liquid waste, degradation
to a body of water used as, or has the potential to be used as, a domestic
water supply source, presence of an open cesspool or tank or exposure of liquid
waste or septage in a manner that allows transmission of disease;
(2) "holding tank" means a non-discharging
watertight tank designed to receive and retain liquid waste for periodic
pumping and disposal off-site;
(3)
"homeowner" means a person or persons who owns and occupies, or plans to
occupy, a single family home; and
(4) "household hazardous waste" means a wide
range of household products that have the characteristics of hazardous waste
when discarded, including but not limited to, pesticides and herbicides,
oil-based paints and stains, automobile fluids (antifreeze, motor oil,
transmission, steering and brake fluids, gasoline), pool chemicals, hobby
chemicals and darkroom chemicals.
I. Terms starting with the letter 'I' are
defined as follows:
(1) "imminent hazard to
public health" means any situation with the potential to immediately and
adversely impact or threaten public health or safety;
(2) "impervious formation" means any soil or
rock formation with a hydraulic conductivity of 10-7
cm/sec or less;
(3) "industrial
process wastewater" means non-household wastewater, excepting the following:
human excreta; used water from showers, washbasins and dishwashers; and food
preparation waste; any wastewater generated in a commercial activity that
contains the materials prohibited by Subsection A of 20.7.3.304 NMAC is
industrial process wastewater;
(4)
"inspector" means a person employed by the department who is competent in the
physical examination and evaluation of on-site liquid waste systems;
(5) "installer" means any person who holds a
valid and appropriate classification of contractor's license issued by the New
Mexico construction industries division for the construction of on-site liquid
waste systems;
(6) "installer
specialist" means a person certified by the department pursuant to Subsection E
of 20.7.3.904 NMAC;
(7)
"interstitial water" means water in spaces between solid earth particles;
and
(8) "invert" means the lowest
portion of the internal cross section of a pipe or fitting.
J. Terms starting with the letter
'J' are defined as follows: [RESERVED]
K. Terms starting with the letter 'K' are
defined as follows: [RESERVED]
L.
Terms starting with the letter 'L' are defined as follows:
(1) "lateral" means a secondary water or
wastewater pipeline branching directly from a central supply pipeline or
manifold leading to an irrigation site;
(2) "limiting layer" means an impervious
formation, bedrock or the seasonal high groundwater table;
(3) "liner" means a manufactured or naturally
occurring substance that restricts seepage to no more than
10-7 cm/sec. over the design service life of the
lined unit; manufactured liners must have a minimum single-ply thickness of 20
mils and have no leaks;
(4) "liquid
capacity" means the volume of liquid that is contained in a septic tank or
treatment unit measured from the invert of the outlet; "liquid capacity" shall
be calculated by multiplying the inside length by the inside width by the depth
measured from the invert of the outlet to the unit's floor and converting the
result of this calculation to gallons;
(5) "liquid waste" means wastewater generated
from any residential or commercial unit where the total wastewater received by
a liquid waste system is 5,000 gallons per day or less; liquid waste includes
without limitation human excreta and water carried waste from plumbing
fixtures, including, but not limited to, wastes from toilets, sinks, showers,
baths, clothes- and dish-washing machines and floor drains; "liquid waste" also
includes non-water carried wastes discharged into holding tanks, privies and
vaults; specifically excluded from the definition of "liquid waste" are
industrial process wastewaters, roof drainage, mine or mill tailings or
wastes;
(6) "liquid waste system"
means a liquid waste treatment unit or units and associated disposal systems,
or parts thereof, serving a residential or commercial unit; "liquid waste
systems" include enclosed systems, holding tanks, vaults and privies but do not
include systems or facilities designed to receive or treat mine or mill
tailings or wastes;
(7) "liquid
waste treatment unit" means a component of the on-site liquid waste system
where removal, reduction or alteration of the objectionable contaminants of
wastewater is designed to occur; it may include a holding component but does
not include soil;
(8) "load" or
"loading" means:
(a) in the context of the
biological or chemical load received by an on-site liquid waste system, the
amount of material applied to an on-site system liquid waste component per unit
area or unit volume;
(b) in the
context of the structural load applied to an on-site liquid waste structural
component, the structural force applied to a liquid waste system component per
surface area; and
(9)
"lot" means a unified parcel legally recorded or validated by other means,
including any contiguous parcel subject to a legally recorded perpetual
easement that dedicates the servient parcel for the disposal of liquid waste
generated on the dominant parcel.
M. Terms starting with the letter 'M' are
defined as follows:
(1) "maintenance contract"
means a contract between the system owner and a maintenance service provider in
which the maintenance service provider agrees to provide periodic inspections
in regards to the operation, maintenance and repair of the system;
(2) "maintenance service provider" means a
public entity, company or individual in the business of maintaining liquid
waste systems according to manufacturers' specifications;
(3) "manifold" means a part of a water
distribution system normally located between the laterals and central supply
line; the "manifold" splits the flow into a number of flows, either for
distribution or for application to the land;
(4) "may" means discretionary, permissive or
allowed; and
(5) "modify" or
"modification" of a liquid waste system means:
(a) to change the method of on-site liquid
waste treatment or disposal;
(b) to
change the design of the on-site liquid waste system;
(c) to increase the design flow or load
received by the on-site liquid waste system above the original design flow or
load; or
(d) replace or expand the
treatment unit or disposal system.
N. Terms starting with the letter 'N' are
defined as follows:
(1) "New Mexico plumbing
code" means 14.8.2 NMAC; and
(2)
"non-discharging system" means a watertight system that allows no discharge of
wastewater except through evaporation, transpiration or pumping, including, but
not limited to, lined evaporation systems, lined evapotranspiration systems,
holding tanks and vaults.
O. Terms starting with the letter 'O' are
defined as follows:
(1) "off-site water" means
the domestic water supply for the lot is from:
(a) a private water supply source that is
neither within the lot nor outside the lot within one hundred (100) feet of the
property line of the lot; or
(b) a
public water supply source that is not within the lot;
(2) "on-site" means located on or within a
lot;
(3) "on-site liquid waste
system" means a liquid waste system located on the lot where the liquid waste
is generated;
(4) "on-site water"
means the domestic water supply for the lot is from:
(a) a private water supply source that is
within the lot or within 100 feet of the property line of the lot; or
(b) a public water supply source that is
within the boundaries of the lot; and
(5) "owner" means any person or persons who
own:
(a) an on-site liquid waste system or
any component thereof; or
(b) any
lot upon which any on-site liquid waste system or any component thereof is
located; in the case of property sold or purchased on a real estate contract,
the "owner" of the property is the buyer; if the property sold or purchased is
owned collectively by multiple owners, the "owner" of the common property is
the entity or governing body specifically designated in governance documents
for the common property.
P. Terms starting with the letter 'P' are
defined as follows:
(1) "percolation rate"
means the rate of entry of water into soil as determined by a standard soil
percolation test at the depth and location of the proposed soil disposal
system;
(2) "permanently displayed"
means, in context of septic tank legends, embossed into the tank surface or a
mechanically attached, non-corrosive plate;
(3) "permit" means a written approval from
the department to install, modify, or operate an on-site liquid waste
system;
(4) "permittee" means any
owner of a permitted on-site liquid waste system;
(5) "person" means any individual,
partnership, firm, public or private corporation, association, trust, estate,
the state or any political subdivision or agency or any other legal entity or
their legal representative, agent or assign;
(6) "primary treatment" means a liquid waste
treatment process that takes place in a treatment unit and allows those
substances in wastewater that readily settle or float to be separated from the
water being treated;
(7) "primary
treatment standards" means the primary treated wastewater does not exceed 200
mg/l BOD, 100 mg/l TSS, 60 mg/l total nitrogen or 60 mg/l fats, oils and
grease;
(8) "private water supply
source" means a water supply source such as a well, spring, infiltration
gallery or surface water withdrawal point used to provide water to a water
supply system, if such system does not have a least 15 service connections and
does not serve an average of 25 individuals at least 60 days out of the
year;
(9) "privy" or "outhouse"
means a receptacle for non-liquid-carried human excreta allowing direct
discharge to the soil;
(10)
"professional engineer" or "P.E." means a professional engineer licensed under
the New Mexico Engineering and Surveying Practice Act; "professional engineer"
includes engineers licensed in any state of the United States for engineering
related to a product design and manufacture of proprietary products;
(11) "proprietary system" means a system
patented, trademarked or otherwise the intellectual property of manufacturers
not in the public domain; and
(12)
"public water supply source" means a water supply source such as a well,
spring, infiltration gallery or surface water intake structure used to provide
water to a public water supply system for human consumption if the system
served has at least 15 service connections or regularly services an average of
25 individuals at least 60 days out of the year.
Q. Terms starting with the letter 'Q' are
defined as follows:
(1) "qualified homeowner"
means a person who is the owner residing at the property who has been provided
homeowner installation training materials and who has passed an exam
administered by the department.
(2)
[RESERVED]
R. Terms
starting with the letter 'R' are defined as follows:
(1) "real estate contract" means a
contractual document creating rights and obligations between a seller and buyer
of real property under which the buyer acquires equitable title to the property
at the time the parties enter into the real estate contract and the seller
agrees to transfer legal title to the property to the buyer at some time in the
future upon buyer's fulfillment of all terms and conditions of the real estate
contract;
(2) "repair" means
servicing or replacing, with like kind, mechanical or electrical parts of an
approved liquid waste system, pumping of septage or making minor structural
corrections to a tank or distribution box;
(3) "residential unit" means a structure that
is primarily used for living quarters but does not include facilities listed in
Table 201.1; and
(4)
"retention/detention area" means an area on a parcel of property specifically
designated and designed to capture and hold water resulting from the runoff of
precipitation.
S. Terms
starting with the letter 'S' are defined as follows:
(1) "sand" means:
(a) a soil separate consisting of individual
rock or mineral fragments that range in diameter from 0.05 to 2.0 millimeters;
or
(b) the textural class name of
any soil that contains 85% or more sand and not more than 10% clay;
(2) "sand-lined trench" means a
combined treatment component and disposal system consisting of 24 inches of
sand, meeting the latest version of ASTM C33-03 specifications or equivalent,
below a low pressure pipe disposal system;
(3) "seasonal high groundwater table" means
the highest level to which the upper surface of groundwater may be expected to
rise within 24 consecutive months;
(4) "seasonal high water flow" means the
highest level that perennial or intermittent surface waters may be expected to
rise as a result of a 25 year, 6-hour storm event;
(5) "secondary treatment" means a reduction
of the 5-day biochemical oxygen demand (BOD5) and total suspended solids (TSS)
concentrations;
(6) "secretary"
means the secretary of environment or a designated representative;
(7) "seepage pit" means a type of absorption
system that uses a vertical, underground receptacle so constructed as to allow
the disposal of effluent by soil absorption through the sidewalls; the maximum
horizontal dimension shall not exceed the vertical dimension;
(8) "septage" means the residual wastes and
water periodically pumped from a liquid waste treatment unit or from a holding
tank;
(9) "septic tank" means a
liquid waste treatment unit designed to provide primary treatment and anaerobic
treatment prior to disposal;
(10)
"setback distance" means the distance measured by a straight horizontal line
between the on-site liquid waste system, or portion thereof, and the object
being considered;
(11) "shall"
means mandatory;
(12) "silt" means:
(a) a soil separate consisting of particles
between 0.05 and 0.002 millimeters in diameter; or
(b) the textural class name of any soil that
contains 80% or more silt and less than 12% clay;
(13) "soil" means sediment or other
unconsolidated accumulations of mineral particles that may or may not contain
organic material and that have filtering properties;
(14) "soil replacement" means replacement of
existing soil with suitable soil in a new or existing disposal system site to
overcome limitations of the existing soil;
(15) "split flow" means a building drain for
the conveyance of wastewater that is designed to capture two waste streams, one
stream from the toilet and the other stream from all other fixtures including
bathtubs, showers washbasins, clothes washing machines, laundry tubs, kitchen
sinks and dishwashers, for the purpose of reducing the total nitrogen
discharged from the building; a "split flow" system shall consist of a holding
tank for the toilet waste only and a disposal system for the remainder of the
waste;
(16) "suitable soil" means a
soil, whether naturally occurring or introduced, that will treat the primary
effluent effectively and act as an effective filter and remove organisms and
suspended solids prior to the effluent reaching groundwater, bedrock or a
limiting layer, and that will provide adequate transmission to prevent a failed
system; suitable soils are classified Table 703.1; and
(17) "surface application" means the
application of disinfected effluent to the ground surface where access is
restricted by artificial or natural conditions.
T. Terms starting with the letter 'T' are
defined as follows:
(1) "tertiary treatment"
means additional treatment beyond secondary treatment standards, specifically,
the reduction in the total nitrogen concentration;
(2) "test hole" means a hole dug in the
proposed disposal field area a minimum of seven feet deep or four feet below
the bottom of disposal field, whichever is greater, and a minimum of two feet
wide; the "test hole" shall be sufficient to examine the soil visually for
type, structure, mottling, impervious layers and other soil characteristics,
and to determine the seasonal high water table level; a soil boring may be used
to determine the soil characteristics and soil depth;
(3) "total design flow" means the sum of
design flows for all on-site liquid waste systems and other wastewater
discharges on a lot;
(4) "total
nitrogen" or "TN" means the combined organic nitrogen, ammonia, nitrite and
nitrate contained in the wastewater or effluent;
(5) "total suspended solids" or "TSS" means
the measurable component of solid matter suspended in water or wastewater;
and
(6) "transfer" means the
transfer of equitable or legal title to a property.
U. Terms starting with the letter 'U' are
defined as follows: [RESERVED]
V.
Terms starting with the letter 'V' are defined as follows:
(1) "vault" means a non-discharging,
watertight tank designed to receive and retain non-liquid carried human excreta
for periodic pumping and disposal off-site; and
(2) "variance" means an administrative
procedure authorizing the issuance of a permit or use of a system that does not
meet the specific requirements of 20.7.3 NMAC but which meet the intent of
20.7.3 NMAC.
W. Terms
starting with the letter 'W' are defined as follows:
(1) "wastewater" means blackwater and
graywater;
(2) "wastewater
technical advisory committee" or "WTAC" means the wastewater technical advisory
committee created by NMSA 1978 Section
9-7A-15;
(3) "watercourse" means any perennial,
intermittent or ephemeral surface water conveyance channel including but not
limited to a river, creek, arroyo, canyon, draw, canal or wash, or any other
channel having definite banks and beds with visible evidence of the flow of
water;
(4) "water(s) of the state"
means surface waters of the state as defined by Paragraph (5), Subsection S of
20.6.4.7 NMAC, or its successor definition;
(5) "watertight" means not allowing water to
pass in or out or as otherwise determined in 20.7.3 NMAC; and
(6) "wetlands" means those areas that are
inundated or saturated by surface water or groundwater at a frequency and
duration sufficient to support, and under normal circumstances do support, a
prevalence of vegetation typically adapted for life in saturated soil
conditions in New Mexico; constructed wetlands are not included in this
definition.
X. Terms
starting with the letter 'X' are defined as follows: [RESERVED]
Y. Terms starting with the letter 'Y' are
defined as follows: [RESERVED]
Z.
Terms starting with the letter 'Z' are defined as follows: [RESERVED]