Minnesota Statutes 115.58 – Alternative Discharging Sewage Systems; General Permits
Subdivision 1.Definitions.
(a) The definitions in this subdivision apply to this section.
Terms Used In Minnesota Statutes 115.58
- Discharge: means the addition of any pollutant to the waters of the state or to any disposal system. See Minnesota Statutes 115.01
- Disposal system: means a system for disposing of sewage, industrial waste and other wastes, and includes sewer systems and treatment works. See Minnesota Statutes 115.01
- Person: means the state or any agency or institution thereof, any municipality, governmental subdivision, public or private corporation, individual, partnership, or other entity, including, but not limited to, association, commission or any interstate body, and includes any officer or governing or managing body of any municipality, governmental subdivision, or public or private corporation, or other entity. See Minnesota Statutes 115.01
- Pollutant: means any sewage, industrial waste, or other wastes, as defined in this chapter, discharged into a disposal system or to waters of the state. See Minnesota Statutes 115.01
- Sewage: means the water-carried waste products from residences, public buildings, institutions or other buildings, or any mobile source, including the excrementitious or other discharge from the bodies of human beings or animals, together with such groundwater infiltration and surface water as may be present. See Minnesota Statutes 115.01
- Standards: means effluent standards, effluent limitations, standards of performance for new sources, water quality standards, pretreatment standards, and prohibitions. See Minnesota Statutes 115.01
- state: extends to and includes the District of Columbia and the several territories. See Minnesota Statutes 645.44
(b) “Alternative discharging sewage system” means a sewage treatment system serving one or more dwellings and other establishments that discharges less than 10,000 gallons of water per day and uses any treatment and disposal methods other than subsurface soil treatment and disposal.
(c) “Permit” means a national pollutant discharge elimination system permit or state disposal system permit granted to any person for the installation, ownership, management, or control of alternative discharging sewage systems whose operations, emissions, activities, discharges, or facilities are the same or substantially similar.
(d) “Water quality cooperative” means an association of persons organized under chapter 308A to install, own, manage, and control subsurface sewage treatment systems or alternative discharging sewage systems and provide water quality treatment and management services for its members within a defined geographical area.
(e) “Water quality treatment and management services” means the monitoring and control of alternative discharging sewage systems to eliminate or reduce water pollution from point and nonpoint sources; the management, use, reuse, recycling, or reclamation of land, water, or wastewater for water supply; geothermal heating and cooling; fire protection; irrigation; drainage; open space or green belt preservation; stormwater management and control; flood management and control or other purposes that are part of a comprehensive plan to reduce, prevent, or eliminate water pollution.
Subd. 2.
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Subd. 3.Local ordinance exemption.
Any system which is permitted under subdivision 2 is exempt from the requirements of any local ordinance adopted to conform with section 115.55 if the system complies with the applicable standards for discharges and treatment of sewage effluents.