CHAPTER 646

An Act to amend and reenact § 62-11, as amended, of the Code of Virginia,
relating to definitions under the State Water Control Law. (H 594]

Approved March 31, 1956

Be it enacted by the General Assembly of Virginia:

1. That § 62-11, as amended, of the Code of Virginia, be amended and
reenacted as follows:

§ 62-11. Unless a different meaning is required by the context the
following terms as used in this chapter shall have the meanings herein-
after respectively ascribed to them:

(1) “Board” means the State Water Control Board, in this chapter
sometimes called the Board;

(2) “Member” means a member of the Board;

(8) “Certificate” means any certificate issued by the Board;

(4) “State waters” means all waters of any river, stream, creek,
branch, lake, impounding reservoir, pond, bay, roadstead, estuary, inlet,
spring, well, and bodies of surface and underground water, natural or
artificial, wholly or partially within or bordering the State or within its
jurisdiction; ’

(5) “Owner” means the State, a county, sanitary district, munici-
pality, public or private institution, corporation, association, firm or com-
pany organized or existing under the laws of this or any other state or
country, person or individual or group of persons or individuals, acting
individually or as a group;

(6) “Pollution” means the discharge or deposit of sewage, industrial
wastes, or other wastes, in such condition, manner, or quantity, as may
cause waters of the State to be contaminated, unclean, or impure to such
an extent as to make such waters directly or indirectly detrimental to the
public health or to the health of animals, fish, or aquatic life; unsuitable
with reasonable treatment for use as present or possible future sources
of public water supply or unsuitable with reasonable treatment for such
water supply by reason of impairment of potability due to such discharge
or treatment required to safeguard such discharge; or unsuitable for rec-
reational, commercial, industrial, agricultural, or other reasonable uses;
provided that the discharge or deposit of sewage, industrial waste or other
waste by any owner which from such owner alone would cause no pollution
yet, in the aggregate of all such discharge or deposit by other owners in
any State waters, causes the same to be polluted is “pollution” for the
terms and purposes of this law;

(7) “Sewage” means the water-carried human wastes from resi-
dences, buildings, industrial establishments or other places together with
such industrial wastes, underground, surface, storm, or other water, as
may be present; and the discharge by any owner of untreated sewage from
facilities serving five hundred persons or more shall be prima facie
evidence of pollution.

(8) “Industrial wastes” means liquid or other wastes resulting from
any process of industry, manufacture, trade or business, or from the devel-
opment of any natural resource;

(9) “Other wastes” means decayed wood, sawdust, shavings, bark,
lime, garbage, refuse, ashes, offal, tar, oil, chemicals, and all other
substances, except industrial wastes and sewage, which may cause pollu-
tion of any State waters;

(10) “Establishment” means any industrial establishment, mill, fac-
tory, tannery, paper or pulp mill, mine, coal mine, colliery, breaker or coal
processing operations, quarry, oil refinery, boat, vessel, and each and
every other industry or plant or works in the operation of which industrial
wastes or other wastes are produced ;

(11) “Sewerage system” means pipe lines or conduits, pumping sta-
tions, and force mains, and all other constructions, devices, and appliances
appurtenant thereto, used for conducting sewage or industrial wastes or
other wastes to a point of ultimate disposal;

(12) “The law” or “this law” means the law contained in this chapter
as now existing‘or hereafter amended.