§ 27A-2-6-107 — Definition – Gray water.

A. "Gray water" means untreated household wastewater that has not come in contact with toilet waste and includes wastewater from bathtubs, showers, washbasins, clothes washing machines and laundry tubs and untreated municipal wastewater limited to wastewater captured from municipal splash pads and water used by fire departments for cleaning equipment and vehicles. Gray water shall not include wastewater from kitchen sinks, kitchen dishwashers or laundry water from the washing of material soiled with human excreta, such as diapers. B. The definition of gray water in subsection A of this section shall apply only in municipalities enacting ordinances regulating the use of gray water within the limits of their municipal boundaries. C. The Department of Environmental Quality shall not require a permit for reusing captured wastewater from a splash pad for irrigation or land application, with or without intermediary storage units, if the splash pad is within the jurisdictional boundaries of a municipality or county that has enacted an ordinance or resolution regulating the management of wastewater from splash pads and the ordinance or resolution, at a minimum, includes the same conditions and restrictions as set forth in paragraphs 5, 8, 11, and 12 of subsection A of Section 2-6-108 of this title. For purposes of this subsection, the term "splash pad" shall also include facilities known as spray pools, spray pads, and spray grounds.

Legislative History

Added by Laws 2011, c. 210, § 1, eff. Nov. 1, 2011. Amended by Laws 2015, c. 260, § 1, emerg. eff. May 6, 2015.