Sec. 850.2. Definitions

For the purpose of these regulations and for interpretation and application of the comprehensive plan, unless the context otherwise requires:

(a) Standards means section X of the comprehensive plan (as reproduced in Part 860 of this Title).

(b) Pollution means the introduction into waters of the basin of substances or properties which impair the uses specified in the comprehensive plan.

(c) Effluent quality requirements means the requirements relating to effluents which are prescribed by the standards or by these regulations.

(d) Waste assimilation means the chemical, physical and biological process resulting when waste substances or properties are introduced into basin waters.

(e) Waste assimilative capacity means the measure of a stream's capacity for waste assimilation without impairment of the uses designated by the standards.

(f) Water uses means the protected uses prescribed by the standards, and without limitation thereto:

(1) Agricultural use includes water used for livestock and for irrigation.

(2) Industrial use includes water for processing and cooling.

(3) Public water supplies include water suitable for drinking purposes and for other domestic, industrial, municipal or institutional uses.

(4) Wildlife includes all undomesticated animals and fowl.

(5) Fish and other aquatic life include all species or resident, anadromous, and catadromous fish, shellfish and other aquatic biota.

(6) Recreation includes all water-contact sports.

(7) Recreation—secondary contact restricts activities to where the probability of significant contact or water ingestion is minimal, encompassing but not limited to:

(i) boating;

(ii) fishing; and

(iii) those other activities involving limited contact with surface waters incident to shoreline recreation.

(g) Unregulated streams means streams where the quantity of flow, including its distribution in time or place, are not significantly altered by the activities or works of man.

(h) Regulated streams are streams where the quantity of flow, including its distribution in time or place, are altered by the activities or works of man.

(i) Special protection waters are waters classified as either outstanding basin waters or significant resource waters by the commission (see 3.10.3 of article 3 of the Delaware River Basin Compact).

(j) Additional definitions.

See section 860.6 and Part 870 of this Title and section 1.2 of the Compact.