Virginia Administrative Code
Title 9 - ENVIRONMENT
Agency 25 - STATE WATER CONTROL BOARD
Chapter 200 - WATER WITHDRAWAL REPORTING
Section 9VAC25-200-30 - Applicability and exemptions
Universal Citation: 9 VA Admin Code 25-200-30
Current through Register Vol. 41, No. 3, September 23, 2024
A. Applicability.
1. Except as stated in this
section, this chapter applies to every user withdrawing groundwater or surface
water in Virginia including the Potomac River abutting Virginia whose average
daily withdrawal during any single month exceeds 10,000 gallons per day.
Reportable withdrawals include, but are not limited to, those for public water
supply, manufacturing, mining, commercial, institutional, livestock watering,
artificial fish culture, and steam-electric power generation uses.
2. This chapter applies to every user
withdrawing ground or surface water for the purpose of irrigating crops whose
withdrawal exceeds 1 million gallons in any single month. Such users need not
report withdrawals from ponds collecting diffuse surface water and not situated
on a perennial stream as defined on U.S. Geological Survey 7.5-minute series
topographic maps, unless the ponds are dug ponds which intercept the
groundwater table and hence contain groundwater.
B. Exemptions.
1. This chapter does not apply to:
a. Users reporting under the provisions of
the Groundwater Act the information here required, provided the withdrawal is
gaged in accordance with this chapter;
b. Drydock fillings;
c. Withdrawals from mines or quarries made
for the sole purpose of dewatering the mine or quarry, provided that the water
withdrawn is not put to other beneficial uses such as, but not limited to,
washing or cooling; and
d.
Withdrawals made for the sole purpose of hydroelectric power generation,
provided that the water withdrawn is not put to other beneficial uses and that
none of it is consumptively used.
2. Users subject to the Virginia Department
of Health Waterworks Regulations shall annually report to the board the source
and location of water withdrawals and the type of use information required
here. They may provide the monthly withdrawal data required here by reference
to reports filed with the Virginia Department of Health.
3. Industrial VPDES permittees shall annually
report to the board the source and location of water withdrawals and the type
of use information required here. They may provide the monthly withdrawal data
required here by reference to VPDES discharge monitoring reports filed with the
department provided that:
a. The wastewater
return flow to the receiving natural water body is gaged and the total monthly
volume is reported on the discharge monitoring reports;
b. There is no substantial temporal lag
between natural water withdrawal and wastewater return;
c. Augmentation of the withdrawal (e.g., by
collected surface run-off or infiltration/inflow) and diminution of the
withdrawal (e.g., by consumption in product or evaporation) are either shown to
be negligible or are separately reported pursuant to this chapter as
adjustments to the wastewater return flow; and
d. The monthly wastewater return flow,
adjusted as necessary in accordance with subdivision 3 c of subsection B, is
volumetrically equivalent to monthly withdrawal within a tolerance of ±
10%.
Statutory Authority: §§ 62.1-44.15 and 62.1-44.38 of the Code of Virginia.
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