Sec. 366.403. - Definitions.

The following definitions apply within this part: (a) Board: The City of Jacksonville Environmental Protection Board. (b) Director: The Director of the City's Environmental Resource Management Department. (c) Division: The City of Jacksonville Environmental Quality Division (EQD). (d) Contaminant: Any substance that, if introduced into a potable drinking water aquifer, could cause a water quality exceedance of a compound listed in the Florida Department of Environmental Protection (FDEP) Drinking Water Standards, Rule Chapter 62-550, Fla. Admin Code. (e) Faulty well: Any well completed into the Floridan Aquifer or Hawthorne Group which does not meet the requirements specified in Section 366.405 (d), Ordinance Code. (f) Hawthorne well: Any well that penetrates a portion of the Hawthorne Group, with a screened or open hole segment terminating within the Hawthorne Group. (g) Pathway Focused Approach: The public drinking water supply protection strategy that focuses on identifying and eliminating wells that create a potential pathway through the Hawthorne Group for contamination to reach the Floridan aquifer, based on the premise that the Hawthorne Group is otherwise impenetrable to downward migration of contaminants. (h) Person: Has the meaning given to it in Section 2.101 (g), Ordinance Code of the City of Jacksonville and in addition includes any officer, employee, agent, department or instrumentality of the Federal Government, any state, municipality, or political subdivision of the State, or of any foreign government. (i) Potable water: Water which is intended for drinking, culinary or domestic purposes subject to compliance with State and federal drinking water standards. (j) Private well: A shallow aquifer, Hawthorne, or Floridan well that is not a Public Potable Water well. (k) Public Potable Water well: Any water well completed into the Floridan Aquifer which supplies Potable water to a community water system or to a non-transient, non-community water system, as those terms are defined in Rule 62-521.200, Fla. Admin. Code. For the purposes of this Part, any Potable water well installed by an installation used to serve that installation's operation is excluded from this definition. (l) Public Water Supply Utility or Utility: The owner of a Public Potable Water well or Wellfield. (m) Risk of Contamination: The existence of a faulty Floridan or Hawthorne well located within a Wellhead Protection Area, a source of contamination, and a gradient in the shallow aquifer towards the faulty Floridan or Hawthorne well, creating a threat to a Public Potable Water well. (n) Wellfield: More than one Public Potable Water well owned by a Public Water Supply Utility in close proximity to each other. (o) Wellhead Protection Area: An area consisting of a 750 feet radial setback distance around a Public Potable Water well or Wellfield where the most stringent measures are provided to protect the ground water source for a potable water well and includes the surface and subsurface area surrounding the well. (p) Wellhead Protection Area Map: A map showing the location of the boundary of each of the Wellhead Protection Areas. (Ord. 2004-973-E, § 2; Ord. 2008-346-E, § 3) Note— Former § 366.603 .