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25. "Domestic use" means water used for drinking, bathing, cooking, or other <br /> household purposes. <br /> 26. "Formation Material" means naturally occurring material generated during <br /> the drilling process that is composed of sands, silts, clays or fragments of rock <br /> and which is not in a dissolved state. <br /> 27. "GPM" and "GPD" mean gallons per minute and gallons per day, <br /> respectively. <br /> 28. "Grout" means a material approved in accordance with Rule .0107(e) of 15 <br /> NCAC 02C for use in sealing the annular space of a well or liner or for <br /> sealing a well during abandonment. <br /> 29. "Injection Well"means any excavation which is cored, bored, drilled,jetted, <br /> dug, or otherwise constructed, whose depth is greater than its largest surface <br /> dimension and which is used, or intended to be used, for the injection of fluids <br /> or solids into the subsurface or groundwater. <br /> 30. "Known source of release of contamination" means a location where any of <br /> the following activities, facilities, or conditions have been documented by the <br /> Department of Environmental Quality or the Orange County Health <br /> Department: <br /> a. Groundwater contamination incidents arising from agricultural <br /> operations, including application of agricultural chemicals pursuant to <br /> 15A NCAC 02L; <br /> b. Groundwater contamination associated with the construction or <br /> operation of injection, monitoring, and other wells subject to <br /> permitting under the Well Construction Act and 15A NCAC 02C <br /> .0302; <br /> c. Groundwater contamination associated with the operation of non- <br /> discharge, discharge National Pollutant Discharge Elimination System <br /> (NPDES) facilities, land application of animal waste, and other <br /> activities subject to permitting under G.S. 143-215.1; <br /> d. Releases of hazardous waste or constituents that currently exceed the <br /> Groundwater Quality Standards listed in 15A NCAC 02L at facilities <br /> governed under G.S. 130A-294; <br /> e. Dry-Cleaning Solvent Cleanup sites regulated under G.S. 143- <br /> 215.104(A); <br /> f. Pre-regulatory landfills and inactive hazardous substance or waste <br /> disposal sites governed under the Inactive Hazardous Sites Act of <br /> 1987, G.S. 130A-310; <br /> g. Solid waste facilities subject to 15A NCAC 13B that have monitoring <br /> wells with exceedances of the Groundwater Protection Standards as <br /> defined in 15A NCAC 13B .1634(g) and(h); <br /> h. Releases of petroleum and hazardous substances subject to G.S. 143- <br /> 215.75 through 215.98; <br /> 7 <br />