Virginia Administrative Code
Title 9 - ENVIRONMENT
Agency 25 - STATE WATER CONTROL BOARD
Chapter 600 - DESIGNATED GROUND WATER MANAGEMENT AREAS
Section 9VAC25-600-10 - Definitions

The following words and terms, when used in this chapter shall have the following meaning, unless the context clearly indicates otherwise:

"Act" means the Ground water Management Act of 1992 (§ 62.1-254 et seq. of the Code of Virginia).

"Board" means the State Water Control Board.

"Ground water management area" means a geographically defined ground water area in which the board has deemed the levels, supply or quality of ground water to be adverse to public welfare, health and safety.

"Ground water" means any water, except capillary moisture, beneath the land surface in the zone of saturation or beneath the bed of any stream, lake, reservoir or other body of surface water within the boundaries of this Commonwealth, whatever may be the subsurface geologic structure in which such water stands, flows, percolates or otherwise occurs.

Statutory Authority: § 62.1-256 of the Code of Virginia.