Section 601.101 General Requirements

 

Owners and official custodians of a public water supply in the State of Illinois shall provide

pursuant to the Environmental Protection Act [415 ILCS 5] (Act), the Pollution Control

Board (Board) Rules, and the Safe Drinking Water Act (42 U.S.C. 300f et seq.) continuous

operation and maintenance of public water supply facilities so that the water shall be

assuredly safe in quality, clean, adequate in quantity, and of satisfactory mineral

characteristics for ordinary domestic consumption.

 

(Source: Amended at 21 Ill. Reg.6537, effective May 8, 1997.)

 

Section 601.102 Applicability

 

The provisions of this Chapter shall apply to public water supplies, as defined in the Act,

except for those designated as non-community water supplies. A public water supply

shall be considered to end at each service connection.

 

(Source: Amended at 6 Ill. Reg. 11497 effective September 14, 1982)

 

Section 601.103 Severability

 

If any provision of these rules or regulations is adjudged invalid, or if the application

thereof to any person or in any circumstance is adjudged invalid, such invalidity shall not

affect the validity of this Chapter as a whole, or any other part, sub-part, sentence or

clause thereof not adjudged invalid.

 

Section 601.104 Analytical Testing

 

a) To determine compliance with these rules and regulations, all sampling

and physical, chemical, bacteriological, and microscopic analyses shall be

made according to the methods described in the National Primary

Drinking Water Regulations (40 CFR 141) and any other method

specifically approved by the Environmental Protection Agency (Agency).

 

b) All anlayses for substances other than those listed in these rules and

regulations must be performed by methods acceptable to the Agency.

 

(Source: Amended at 3 Ill. Reg. 13, p. 236, effective March 30, 1979.)

 

Section 601.105 Definitions

 

For purposes of this Chapter:

 

 

  

  

"Act" means the Environmental Protection Act, as amended, [415 ILCS 5].

 

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"Agency" means the Illinois Environmental Protection Agency.

 

"Board" means the Illinois Pollution Control Board.

 

"Boil Order" means a notice to boil all drinking and culinary water for at least

five minutes before use, issued by the proper authorities to the consumers of a

public water supply affected, whenever the water being supplied may have

become microbiologically contaminated.

 

"Certified Laboratory" means any laboratory approved by Agency, the Illinois

Department of Nuclear Safety or the Illinois Department of Public Health for the

specific parameters to be examined, as set out in rules adopted pursuant to the

Illinois Administrative Procedure Act [5 ILCS 100].

 

"Confined Geologic Formations" are geologic water bearing formations

protected against the entrance of contamination by other geologic formations.

 

"Disinfectant" means any oxidant, including but not limited to chlorine, chlorine

dioxide, chloramines, and ozone, added to water in any part of the treatment or

distribution process, which is intended to kill or inactivate pathogenic

microorganisms.

 

"Dose Equivalent" means the product of the absorbed dose from ionizing

radiation and such factors as account for differences in biological effectiveness

due to the type of radiation and its distribution in the body as specified by the

International Commission of Radiological Units and Measurements (ICRU).

 

"Gross Alpha Particle Activity" means the total radioactivity due to alpha

particle emission as inferred from measurements on a dry sample.

 

  

"Gross Beta Particle Activity" means the total radioactivity due to beta particle

emission as inferred from measurements on a dry sample.

 

“GROUNDWATER” MEANS UNDERGROUND WATER WHICH OCCURS

WITHIN THE SATURATED ZONE AND GEOLOGIC MATERIALS

WHERE THE FLUID PRESSURE IN THE PORE SPACE IS EQUAL TO OR

GREATER THAN ATMOSTPHERIC PRESSURE. (Section 3.64 of the Act)

 

"Halogen" means one of the chemical elements chlorine, bromine or

iodine.

 

"Man-Made Beta Particle and Photon Emitters" means all radionuclides emitting

beta particles and/or photons listed in Maximum Permissible Body Burdens and

Maximum Permissible Concentration of Radionuclides in Air or Water for

Occupational Exposure, National Bureau of Standards (NBS) Handbook 69,

except the daughter products of thorium-232, uranium-235 and uranium-238.

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"Maximum Residence Time Concentration (MRTC)" means the concentration of

total trihalomethanes found in a water sample taken at a point of maximum

residence time in the public water supply distribution system.

 

"Maximum Total Trihalomethane Potential (MTP)" means the maximum

concentration of total trihalomethanes produced in a given water containing a

disinfectant residual after 7 days at a temperature of 25 degrees C or above.

 

"Official Custodian" means any officer of an organization which is the owner or

operator of a public water supply, and who has direct administrative

responsibility for the supply.

 

"Persistent Contamination" exists when analysis for total coliform is positive in

one or more samples of a routine sample set, and when three or more subsequent

repeat samples indicate the presence of contamination.

 

"Picocurie (pCi)" means that quantity of radioactive material producing 2.22

nuclear transformations per minute.

 

"Point Of Maximum Residence Time" means that part of the active portion of

the distribution system remote from the treatment plant where the water has been

in the distribution system for the longest period of time.

 

"Recurring Contamination" exists when analysis of total coliform is positive in

one or more samples of a routine sample set, if this occurs four or more times in

a twelve consecutive month period.

 

"Rem" means the unit of dose equivalent from ionizing radiation to the total

body or any internal organ or organ system. A "millirem (mrem)" is 1/1000 of a

rem.

 

"Sell Water" means to deliver or provide potable water, obtained from a public

water supply subject to these regulations, to the consumer, who is then

individually or specifically billed for water service, or where any monetary

assessment is levied or required and specifically used for water service. Water

supply facilities owned or operated by political subdivisions, homeowners

associations, and not-for-profit associations, as well as privately owned utilities

regulated by the Illinois Commerce Commission, are considered to sell water

whether or not a charge is specifically made for water.

 

"Service Connection" is the opening, including all fittings and appurtenances, at

the water main through which water is supplied to the user.

 

"Surface Water" means all tributary streams and drainage basins, including

natural lakes and artificial reservoirs, which may affect a specific water supply

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above the point of water supply intake.

 

"Surface Water Supply Source" means any surface water used as a water source

for a public water supply.

 

"Supply" means a public water supply.

 

"Total Trihalomethanes (TTHM)" means the sum of the concentration in

milligrams per liter of the trihalomethane compounds trichloromethane

(chloroform), dibromochloromethane, bromodichloromethane and

tribromomethane (bromoform), rounded to two significant figures.

 

"Trihalomethane (THM)" means one of the family of organic compounds named

as derivatives of methane, wherein three of the four hydrogen atoms in methane

are each substituted by a halogen atom in the molecular structure.

 

"Water Main" means any pipe for the purpose of distributing potable water

which serves or is accessible to more than one property, dwelling, or rental unit,

and is exterior to buildings.

 

(Source: Amended at 21 Ill. Reg. 6537, effective May 8, 1997.)

 

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Section 601.APPENDIX A References to Former Rules

 

The following table is provided to aid in referencing former Board rule numbers to

section numbers pursuant to codification.

 

Chapter 6: Public Water Supplies

35 Ill. Adm. Code Part 601

Part I: Introduction

 

Rule 101

Section 601.101

Rule 102

Deleted

Rule 103

Deleted

Rule 104

Section 601.105

Rule 105

Section 601.104

Rule 106

Section 601.102

Rule 107

Section 601.103