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As specified in 15A NCAC 2L.0202 (b) (3), where naturally occurring substances exceed the established standard, the standard shall be the naturally occurring concentration as determined by the Division. 21. "Designed capacity"shall mean that capacity that is equal to the yield that is specified by the well owner or his agent prior to construction of the well. 22. "Development" means the process of properly casing and lining of the well and of removing all drill cuttings,formation material, sediment, or other settled or suspended debris from a new or existing well. 23. "'Disinfect"or"Disinfection" means protecting against any contamination from comment[VH14]:NEW ocHD DEFINITION; equipment, material, or surface drainage introduced during well construction or STAFF WANTED CLARIFICATION repair, immediately following their construction or repair. Prior to final chemical disinfection, contractors must remove foreign substances, such as grease, soil, sediment,joint dope, and scum from the well and near the wellhead. Pump installers must clean all pump parts before placing them into the well. The well must be disinfect with a chlorine compound at a concentration of no less than 100 mg/L(100 ppm)available. 24. "Division of Water Resources)"or"Division" means the North Carolina Division of Water Resources or its successor.The term also means the authorized representative of the Division. 25. "Domestic use" means water used for drinking, bathing, cooking,or other household purposes. 26. "Formation Material"means naturally occurring material generated during the drilling process that is composed of sands, silts, clays or fragments of rock and which is not in a dissolved state. 27. "GPM"and "GPD" mean gallons per minute and gallons per day, respectively. 28. "Grout"means a material approved in accordance with Rule .0107(e)of 15 NCAC 02C for use in sealing the annular space of a well or liner or for sealing a well during abandonment. 29. "Injection Well" means any excavation which is cored, bored, drilled,jetted, dug, or otherwise constructed,whose depth is greater than its largest surface dimension and which is used, or intended to be used,for the injection of fluids or solids into the subsurface or groundwater. 30. "Known source of release of contamination"(means a location where any of the .comment[VHls]:NEW STATE DEFINITION following activities, facilities, or conditions have been documented by the Department of Environmental Quality or the Orange County Health Department: a)Groundwater contamination incidents arising from agricultural operations, including application of agricultural chemicals pursuant to 15A NCAC 02L; b)Groundwater contamination associated with the construction or operation of injection, monitoring, and other wells subject to permitting under the Well