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<br />"Dosing Device" - or pump pit, siphon, or other device that discharges <br />sewage tank effluent from the dosing chamber to the soil treatment system. <br />"Drain Field" - is also called the tile disposal field or soil absorption field and <br />uses distribution pipes placed in favorable soil so that sewage from the septic <br />tank can percolate through and into the soil. <br />"Dwelling" - is any building or place used or intended to be used by human <br />occupants as a single-family or two-family unit. <br />"Filter Material" - is clean, rock, crushed igneous rock or similar insoluble, <br />durable, and decay-resistant material free from sand, silt, or clay. The size shall <br />range from three-fourths (3/4) inch minimum diameter to one and one-half (1 Y:.) <br />inches effective diameter. <br />"Floodway" - the channel of a river, a stream, and those parts of the flood <br />plain and adjoining the channel which are reasonably required to carry and <br />discharge the flood water, a flood flow of the river or stream. <br />"Gray Water" - liquid waste from a dwelling or other establishment produce <br />by bathing, laundry, floor drains, other than toilet wastes. <br />"Holding Tank" - is a water-tight tank for storage of sewage until it can be <br />transported to a point of approved disposal. <br />"Impermeable" - with regard to soils, is a soil horizon or layer having a <br />vertical permeability less than one (1) inch in twenty-four (24) hours and shall be <br />considered impermeable. <br />"Individual Sewage Treatment System" - is a sewage treatment <br />system or part thereof, serving a dwelling or other small living or business unit, or <br />group thereof, which utilizes subsurface soil treatment and disposal. <br />"Lawn Area" - is the area bounded by the dimensions required for the proper <br />location of the soil treatment area. <br />"Malfunctioning System" - any component or components of an existing <br />or new septic system which fails and thereby causes overland flow, noxious <br />odors, or public nuisance. <br />"Mound System" - is a system where the soil treatment area is built above <br />ground to overcome limits imposed by proximity to water table or bedrock, or by <br />rapidly or slowly permeable soils. <br />"Percolation Rate" - is the time rate of drop of water surface in a test hole. <br />"Permeability" - the case with which gases or liquids penetrate or pass <br />through a bulk mass of soil or layer of soil. <br />"Plastic Limit" - is soil moisture content below which the soil may be <br />manipulated for purposes of installing a soil treatment system and above which <br />manipulation will cause compaction and puddling. If a fragment of soil can easily <br />be rolled into a wire one-eighth (1/8) inch diameter, the moisture content is below <br />the limit and the soil may be manipulated. The standard method of determining <br />the plastic limit is specified by the American Association of State Highway <br />Officials (AASHO) Designation: #T 90-61. <br /> <br />5 <br />