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2002 LAWS OF MARYLAND
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Ch. 484
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(2) HAS A CONCENTRATION OF LESS THAN:
(I) 3 FECAL COLIFORM COLONIES PER 100 MILLILITERS;
(II) 10 MILLIGRAMS PER LITER OF 5-DAY BIOLOGICAL OXYGEN
DEMAND; AND
(III) 10 MILLIGRAMS PER LITER OF TOTAL SUSPENDED SOLIDS.
[(e)] (F) "Sewage" means any human or animal excretion, domestic waste, or
industrial waste.
[(f)] (G) (1) "Sewerage system" means:
(i) The channels used or intended to be used to collect and dispose
of sewage; and
(ii) Any structure and appurtenance used or intended to be used to
collect or prepare sewage for discharge into the waters of this State.
(2) "Sewerage system" includes any sewer of any size.
(3) "Sewerage system" does not include the plumbing system inside any
building served by the sewerage system.
9-302.
(a) The purpose of this subtitle is to establish effective programs and to
provide additional and cumulative remedies to prevent, abate, and control pollution of
the waters of this State.
(b) Because the quality of the waters of this State is vital to the interests of
the citizens of this State, because pollution is a menace to public health and welfare,
creates public nuisances, harms wildlife, fish, and aquatic life, and impairs domestic,
agricultural, industrial, recreational, and other legitimate beneficial uses of water,
and because the problem of water pollution in this State is closely related to the
problem of water pollution in adjoining states, it is the policy of this State:
(1) To improve, conserve, and manage the quality of the waters of this
State;
(2) To protect, maintain, and improve the quality of water for public
supplies, propagation of wildlife, fish, and aquatic life, and domestic, agricultural,
industrial, recreational, and other legitimate beneficial uses;
(3) To provide that no waste is discharged into any waters of this State
without first receiving necessary treatment or other corrective action to protect the
legitimate beneficial uses of the waters of this State; [and]
(4) Through innovative and alternative methods of waste and
wastewater treatment, to provide and promote prevention, abatement, and control of
new or existing water pollution; AND
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