For the purpose of this subchapter, the following definitions shall apply unless the context clearly indicates or requires a different meaning.
AESTHETIC WATER USE. Water use for ornamental or decorative purposes such as fountains, reflecting pools and waterfalls.
COMMERCIAL AND INDUSTRIAL WATER USE. Water use integral to the production of goods and/or services by an establishment having financial profit as its primary aim.
CONSERVATION. Reduction in water use to prevent depletion or waste of the resource.
CUSTOMER. Any person, company or organization using finished water owned or supplied by the county.
CW-DMAG. The Catawba-Wateree Drought Management Advisory Group as established and identified in the Duke Energy Catawba Relicensing Low Inflow Protocol.
DOMESTIC WATER USE. Water use for personal needs or for household purposes such as drinking, bathing, heating, cooking, sanitation or for cleaning a residence, business, industry or institution.
DROUGHT ALERT PHASES. There are four drought alert phases to be determined by the Drought Response Committee for the State of South Carolina. The four phases are:
(1) Incipient drought - stage 0 and stage 1;
(2) Moderate drought - stage 2;
(3) Severe drought - stage 3; and
(4) Extreme drought - stage 4.
DROUGHT MANAGEMENT PLAN. A plan and procedures adopted by the County Council for managing water demand and evaluating supply options before and during a drought-related water shortage.
DROUGHT RESPONSE MANAGEMENT AREAS.
(1) There are four drought management areas corresponding to the major river basins in South Carolina. The four areas are:
(a) West or Savannah;
(b) Central or Santee;
(c) Northeast or Pee Dee; and
(d) Southern or Ashepoo, Combahee, and Edisto.
(2) The county is included in the 18-county Central or Santee Response Management Area. In order to prevent overly broad response to drought conditions, drought response measures shall be considered within individual drought management areas or within individual counties, as applicable.
DROUGHT RESPONSE COMMITTEE. A committee composed of state and local representatives created for the purpose of coordinating responses to water supply shortages within drought management areas and making recommendations for action to the South Carolina Department of Natural Resources and/or the Governor. The Committee is composed of state agency representatives from the South Carolina Emergency Management Division of the Office of the Adjutant General, South Carolina Department of Health and Environmental Control, South Carolina Department of Agriculture, South Carolina Forestry Commission, and South Carolina Department of Natural Resources, as well as local committees representing counties, municipalities, public service districts, private water suppliers, agriculture, industry, domestic users, regional councils of government, commissions of public works, power generation facilities, special purpose districts and Soil and Water Conservation Districts.
DROUGHT RESPONSE REPRESENTATIVE. The County Manager (or designee) for York County Government.
ESSENTIAL WATER USE. Water used specifically for fire fighting, maintaining instream flow requirements, and to satisfy federal, state or local public health and safety requirements.
FINISHED WATER. Water distributed for use after treatment. The terms "water use," "water user," and "water customer" refer to finished water use unless otherwise defined.
INSTITUTIONAL WATER USE. Water used by government, public and private educational institutions, churches and places of worship, water utilities and organizations within the public domain.
IRRIGATION OR LANDSCAPE WATER USE. Water used to maintain gardens, trees, lawns, shrubs, flowers, athletic fields, rights-of-way, medians, and agriculture.
LOW INFLOW PROTOCOL FOR THE CATAWBA-WATEREE PROJECT. This is a water conservation plan contained in the water supply study conducted by Duke Energy as part of the Catawba-Wateree Hydroelectric Relicensing Project, setting forth trigger points, procedures and water withdrawal reduction measures during periods of low inflow for water withdrawers along the Catawba River.
NON-ESSENTIAL WATER USE. Categories of water use other than "essential water use". Examples of non-essential water use include landscape irrigation and the washing of buildings, parking lots, automobiles and the like.
RESIDENTIAL EQUIVALENT UNIT (REU). An equivalency unit defined to be equal to one household. The county's allocated water capacity equals 400 gallons per day per REU.
SC DEPT. OF NATURAL RESOURCES. The state agency with primacy to implement the provisions of the Drought Response Act.
WATER SUPPLY SHORTAGE. Lack of adequate available water caused by drought to meet normal demands.
(‘77 Code, § 18-17) (Ord. 786, passed 9-15-86; Am. Ord. 104, passed 1-20-04; Am. Ord. 7208, passed 11-3-08)