§ 46-15.3-4 Definitions. – As used in this chapter, the following words and phrases shall have thefollowing meanings, unless the context shall indicate another or differentmeaning or intent:
(1) "Aquifer" means a geologic formation, group offormations, or part of a formation capable of yielding a significant amount ofgroundwater to wells, springs, or surface water.
(2) "Commercial agricultural producers" means purveyors of atleast two thousand five hundred dollars ($2,500) of agricultural productsduring a calendar year.
(3) "Eligible expenditure" means the acquisition of a feesimple interest or of a conservation restriction, as that term is defined in§ 34-39-2(a), or other interest in watershed lands, including, but notlimited to, costs and expenses relating to the improvement of the lands orinterests therein, maintenance of the lands or roads or interests therein, andtaxes thereon, or the funding of the construction of physical improvements thatdirectly protect the quality and safety of public drinking water supply. Nofunds under this section shall be used to extend service lines or expand systemcapacity.
(4) "Ground water" means water found underground whichcompletely fills the open spaces between particles of sand, gravel, clay, silt,and consolidated rock fractures. The zone of materials filled with groundwateris called the zone of saturation.
(5) "Ground water recharge" means the processes of additionof water to the zone of saturation, that zone beneath the water table.
(6) "Raw water" means water in its natural state prior to anytreatment.
(7) "Recharge area" means an area in which water is absorbedthat eventually reaches the zone of saturation.
(8) "Sale" means all retail sales of potable water to endusers for any purpose in the ordinary course of business by a supplier, exceptfor sales exempt pursuant to § 46-15.3-5(c), (d) and (e).
(9) "Source" means the raw water upon which a public watersupply system abounds, and refers to both groundwater and surface water.
(10) "Supplier(s) of public drinking water" and "supplier(s)"mean any city, town, district, or other municipal, quasi municipal, or publicor private corporation or company engaged in the sale of potable water and thewater supply business in Rhode Island; provided, however, that only supplierswhich withdraw water from wells, reservoirs, springs, or other original sourcesin potable quality shall be entitled to disbursements pursuant to §46-15.3-11.
(11) "The fund" means the water quality protection funds asdescribed in § 46-15.3-10.
(12) "Watersheds" means those land areas which, because oftheir topography, soil type, and drainage patterns, act as collectors of rawwaters which replenish or regorge existing or planned public drinking watersupplies.
(13) "Non-billed water" means the difference between waterproduced by a supplier and water sold by the same supplier.
(14) "Leakage" means the difference between non-billed waterand the total of the estimated or measured allowances for fire fighting, meterinaccuracy, theft, system usage, main flushing, sewer cleaning, storm draincleaning, and other allowances that may be developed by the water resourcesboard.
§ 46-15.3-4 Definitions. – As used in this chapter, the following words and phrases shall have thefollowing meanings, unless the context shall indicate another or differentmeaning or intent:
(1) "Aquifer" means a geologic formation, group offormations, or part of a formation capable of yielding a significant amount ofgroundwater to wells, springs, or surface water.
(2) "Commercial agricultural producers" means purveyors of atleast two thousand five hundred dollars ($2,500) of agricultural productsduring a calendar year.
(3) "Eligible expenditure" means the acquisition of a feesimple interest or of a conservation restriction, as that term is defined in§ 34-39-2(a), or other interest in watershed lands, including, but notlimited to, costs and expenses relating to the improvement of the lands orinterests therein, maintenance of the lands or roads or interests therein, andtaxes thereon, or the funding of the construction of physical improvements thatdirectly protect the quality and safety of public drinking water supply. Nofunds under this section shall be used to extend service lines or expand systemcapacity.
(4) "Ground water" means water found underground whichcompletely fills the open spaces between particles of sand, gravel, clay, silt,and consolidated rock fractures. The zone of materials filled with groundwateris called the zone of saturation.
(5) "Ground water recharge" means the processes of additionof water to the zone of saturation, that zone beneath the water table.
(6) "Raw water" means water in its natural state prior to anytreatment.
(7) "Recharge area" means an area in which water is absorbedthat eventually reaches the zone of saturation.
(8) "Sale" means all retail sales of potable water to endusers for any purpose in the ordinary course of business by a supplier, exceptfor sales exempt pursuant to § 46-15.3-5(c), (d) and (e).
(9) "Source" means the raw water upon which a public watersupply system abounds, and refers to both groundwater and surface water.
(10) "Supplier(s) of public drinking water" and "supplier(s)"mean any city, town, district, or other municipal, quasi municipal, or publicor private corporation or company engaged in the sale of potable water and thewater supply business in Rhode Island; provided, however, that only supplierswhich withdraw water from wells, reservoirs, springs, or other original sourcesin potable quality shall be entitled to disbursements pursuant to §46-15.3-11.
(11) "The fund" means the water quality protection funds asdescribed in § 46-15.3-10.
(12) "Watersheds" means those land areas which, because oftheir topography, soil type, and drainage patterns, act as collectors of rawwaters which replenish or regorge existing or planned public drinking watersupplies.
(13) "Non-billed water" means the difference between waterproduced by a supplier and water sold by the same supplier.
(14) "Leakage" means the difference between non-billed waterand the total of the estimated or measured allowances for fire fighting, meterinaccuracy, theft, system usage, main flushing, sewer cleaning, storm draincleaning, and other allowances that may be developed by the water resourcesboard.
§ 46-15.3-4 Definitions. – As used in this chapter, the following words and phrases shall have thefollowing meanings, unless the context shall indicate another or differentmeaning or intent:
(1) "Aquifer" means a geologic formation, group offormations, or part of a formation capable of yielding a significant amount ofgroundwater to wells, springs, or surface water.
(2) "Commercial agricultural producers" means purveyors of atleast two thousand five hundred dollars ($2,500) of agricultural productsduring a calendar year.
(3) "Eligible expenditure" means the acquisition of a feesimple interest or of a conservation restriction, as that term is defined in§ 34-39-2(a), or other interest in watershed lands, including, but notlimited to, costs and expenses relating to the improvement of the lands orinterests therein, maintenance of the lands or roads or interests therein, andtaxes thereon, or the funding of the construction of physical improvements thatdirectly protect the quality and safety of public drinking water supply. Nofunds under this section shall be used to extend service lines or expand systemcapacity.
(4) "Ground water" means water found underground whichcompletely fills the open spaces between particles of sand, gravel, clay, silt,and consolidated rock fractures. The zone of materials filled with groundwateris called the zone of saturation.
(5) "Ground water recharge" means the processes of additionof water to the zone of saturation, that zone beneath the water table.
(6) "Raw water" means water in its natural state prior to anytreatment.
(7) "Recharge area" means an area in which water is absorbedthat eventually reaches the zone of saturation.
(8) "Sale" means all retail sales of potable water to endusers for any purpose in the ordinary course of business by a supplier, exceptfor sales exempt pursuant to § 46-15.3-5(c), (d) and (e).
(9) "Source" means the raw water upon which a public watersupply system abounds, and refers to both groundwater and surface water.
(10) "Supplier(s) of public drinking water" and "supplier(s)"mean any city, town, district, or other municipal, quasi municipal, or publicor private corporation or company engaged in the sale of potable water and thewater supply business in Rhode Island; provided, however, that only supplierswhich withdraw water from wells, reservoirs, springs, or other original sourcesin potable quality shall be entitled to disbursements pursuant to §46-15.3-11.
(11) "The fund" means the water quality protection funds asdescribed in § 46-15.3-10.
(12) "Watersheds" means those land areas which, because oftheir topography, soil type, and drainage patterns, act as collectors of rawwaters which replenish or regorge existing or planned public drinking watersupplies.
(13) "Non-billed water" means the difference between waterproduced by a supplier and water sold by the same supplier.
(14) "Leakage" means the difference between non-billed waterand the total of the estimated or measured allowances for fire fighting, meterinaccuracy, theft, system usage, main flushing, sewer cleaning, storm draincleaning, and other allowances that may be developed by the water resourcesboard.
