§ 42-44.1-2 - Definitions.
SECTION 42-44.1-2
§ 42-44.1-2 Definitions. – The following words and terms, unless the context clearly indicates a differentmeaning, have the following meanings:
(1) "Affected residence" refers to a residence which has anISDS failure or a contaminated domestic water supply;
(2) "Contaminated domestic water supply" refers to theprimary source of drinking and household water for a residence which fails tomeet generally accepted drinking water standards, or which the department ofhealth has certified as undrinkable;
(3) "Domestic individual sewage disposal system" ("ISDS")refers to an existing disposal system which services an owner occupied, singlefamily residence;
(4) "Failed domestic individual disposal system" refers to anISDS system which has been determined to have failed by the land resourcessection of the department of environmental management, or a system which hasrequired pumping out more than four (4) times in a one-year period;
(5) "Multiple domestic individual sewage disposal systemfailure" refers to a number of failed ISDS systems in close proximity to oneanother.