All projects receive the highest applicable designation only.
Projects will be included in one of three categories: A. Underground Wastewater
Disposal Systems; B. Non-Point Source Pollution Projects, and C. Point Source
Pollution Projects. The projects shall be ranked in order of: 1. Public Health
Protection; 2. Water Quality Improvement; 3. Potential for Improvement; and, in
the case of point source pollution projects, 4. Future Needs. Funding will be
allocated as identified in R317-101, Utah Wastewater Project Assistance Program
and R317-102, Utah Wastewater State Revolving Fund (SRF) Program for the
categories of projects identified below.
A. UNDERGROUND WASTEWATER DISPOSAL SYSTEM
PROJECTS:
1. Public Health Protection
a. Projects that improve or prevent a
discharge of inadequately treated wastewater to an area of immediate public
contact.
b. Projects that improve
or prevent a discharge of inadequately treated wastewater within a zone of
protection of a municipal or private drinking water well or that eliminate a
drinking water impairment.
2. Water Quality Improvement
a. Projects that restore beneficial uses to
surface water identified on the 303(d) Water Quality Impaired Waters
list.
b. Projects that improve or
prevent pollution to ground water.
3. Potential for Improvement
a. Projects that include improvement or
replacement of underground wastewater disposal systems that may prevent
degradation to surface water or ground water.
b. Projects that are necessary to comply with
state or local underground wastewater disposal rules or regulations, e.g.,
existing systems that have inadequate ground water separation or are installed
in unsuitable soil.
c. Projects
that may improve underground wastewater disposal system reliability and
function.
B.
NON-POINT SOURCE POLLUTION PROJECTS:
1.
Public Health Protection
a. Projects that
improve or prevent a discharge of inadequately treated wastewater or other
polluted water to an area of immediate public contact.
b. Projects that improve or prevent a
discharge of inadequately treated wastewater or other polluted water within a
zone of protection of a municipal or private drinking water well or that
eliminate a drinking water impairment.
2. Water Quality Improvement
a. Projects that restore beneficial uses to
surface water identified on the 303(d) Water Quality Impaired Waters
list.
b. Projects that improve or
prevent other surface water pollution.
c. Projects that improve or prevent ground
water pollution.
3.
Potential for Improvement
a. Projects that
improve non-point sources of pollution from industrial, municipal, private or
agricultural systems that may prevent degradation to surface water or ground
water.
b. Projects that may prevent
degradation to riparian areas, wetlands or that preserve the natural
environment.
c. Projects that
encourage conservation including wastewater reuse, biosolids reuse or new
conservation technologies.
d.
Projects that encourage Best Management Practices that may directly or
indirectly improve or prevent degradation to surface water or ground
water.
C.
POINT SOURCE POLLUTION PROJECTS:
1. Public
Health Protection
a. Projects that improve or
prevent a discharge of inadequately treated wastewater to an area of immediate
public contact.
b. Projects that
improve or prevent a discharge of inadequately treated wastewater or storm
water within a zone of protection of a municipal or private drinking water well
or that eliminate a drinking water impairment.
2. Water Quality Improvement
a. Projects that restore beneficial uses to
surface water identified on the 303(d) Water Quality Impaired Waters
list.
b. Projects that improve or
prevent other surface water pollution.
c. Projects that improve or prevent ground
water pollution.
d. Projects
necessary to achieve water quality standards more stringent than secondary
treatment standards.
e. Projects
needed to meet secondary treatment standards or that expand systems that are
beyond 95 percent of the design capacity or that do not meet current design
criteria.
3. Potential
for Improvement
a. Projects that improve
collection, treatment and disposal systems that may prevent degradation to a
surface water or ground water aquifer.
b. Projects that may prevent degradation to
riparian areas, wetlands or that preserve the natural environment.
c. Projects that encourage regionalization of
treatment systems.
d. Projects that
encourage conservation including wastewater reuse, biosolids reuse, or new
conservation technologies
4. Future Needs. Projects that may have
future needs for the construction, expansion or replacement of collection and
treatment systems.