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"Advanced water treatment" means programs and processes required to meet the 1987 amendments to the Safe Drinking Water Act, the National Pollutant Discharge Elimination System (NPDES) permit and any subsequent amendment to the Safe Drinking Water Act or NPDES permit. These processes may include used water recovery, corrosion control, reduction of disinfectant byproducts, well head treatment or down-hole modifications, granular activated carbon treatment, water quality testing and monitoring and other similar programs as deemed appropriate by the Director.

"Corrosion control (lead and copper)" means programs implemented to reduce lead and copper in the water system and at the customer’s tap.

"Disinfectant byproducts reduction" means programs required to reduce disinfection byproducts that are produced when natural organics in the water interact with disinfectants. The Safe Drinking Water Act amendment regulates the level of disinfectant byproducts in treated water.

"Granular activated carbon treatment" means a process in which nonvolatile and semivolatile organic compounds are removed through absorption on the surface of carbon particles.

"Used water recovery" means a process required for the treatment of waste streams produced by water treatment plants and residual solids handling to meet water quality standards for discharge to receiving waters.

"Water quality programs" means programs required by the 1987 amendments to the Safe Drinking Water Act and any subsequent amendments, such as water quality testing and monitoring and customer education.

"Well head treatment" or "down-hole modification" means treatment processes to remove contaminants from groundwater at the well head or structural modification to seal wells at the level that contaminants are occurring. (Ord. No. G-6741, § 2 (Exh. A), 2020)