Washington Administrative Code
Title 332 - Natural Resources, Board and Department of (See also Title 222)
Chapter 332-52 - Public access and recreation
GENERAL RULES
Section 332-52-120 - Sanitation
Universal Citation: WA Admin Code 332-52-120
Current through Register Vol. 24-18, September 15, 2024
(1) How and where can refuse or waste be disposed on department-managed lands?
(a) Where toilet or sewage
facilities are provided, no person shall dispose of human waste
except in those facilities.
(b) Persons shall not deposit an
individual's solid human waste within two hundred feet of any
campsite, trail, or body of water. An individual's solid human waste
shall be disposed of by burying to a depth of at least six
inches.
(c) Where the
department has provided receptacles, persons shall deposit bottles,
cans, waste paper, garbage and other appropriate refuse in designated
receptacles. If no receptacle is provided, persons shall take such
refuse with them for disposal off-site.
(d) Persons shall not use
department-provided receptacles for the disposal of personal or
commercial refuse, garbage, debris or waste not associated with
recreational activities on department-managed lands.
(e) Persons shall not leave or burn
refuse or waste of any kind on department-managed lands, nor pollute
or contaminate department-managed lands, including but not limited to
any stream, river, lake, marine waters, or other body of water
running in, through, or adjacent to department-managed lands, except
as authorized by these rules.
(f) DNR may establish controlled
discharge areas in order to prohibit discharge of waste from vessels
in designated water recreation facilities as referred to in WAC
332-52-305(1).
Refuse or waste from vessels does not include the discharge of
greywater.
(2) Any violation of this section is an infraction under chapter 7.84 RCW.
Statutory Authority: Chapter 43.30 RCW and RCW 43.12.065. 09-05-034, § 332-52-120, filed 2/11/09, effective 3/14/09.
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