Failed System definition

Failed System means, without limitation, an on-site liquid waste system that does not operate as permitted, that does not provide a level of treatment at least as effective as that provided by on-site liquid waste systems that meet the requirements of 20.7.3 NMAC or that poses a hazard to public health or degrades a body of water; and

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Failed System means any subsurface sewage disposal system or system that allows wastewater to discharge or flow from it into the interior of any building served or into any storm drain, stream, water body, gutter, street, roadway or public place, or if wastewater discharges from said system to the surface or subsurface of any property and creates a nuisance or condition detrimental to health and the environment as determined by the commissioner, the local Director of Health or as designated by the Public Health Code.

Failed System means a wastewater treatment and/or disposal system that no longer provides the treatment and/or disposal for which it was intended, or violates any of the requirements that were in place at the time that the system was approved or permitted.

Examples of Failed System in a sentence

• The Owner and the Contractor, pursuant to the Disposal System Construction Permit issued by the Board of Health, shall determine the Scope of Work necessary to bring the Failed System into compliance with Title 5.

• Contractor shall correct each such Deficiency within fifteen (15) calendar days after receiving such report, or if any Deficiency is one that is not capable of being corrected within the fifteen (15) day period, then within such longer period of time as mutually agreed to by the parties, and thereafter City may re-test such System Deliverable in accordance with Subsection 2.3 (Failed System Deliverable Testing).

• The Owner and the Contractor, pursuant the Disposal System Construction Permit issued by the Board of Health, shall determine the Scope of the Work necessary to bring the Failed System into compliance with Title 5.

• Inspection of the Failed System by a representative of Board of Health or by a DEP Certified Septic System Inspector, as deemed necessary by the Board of Health.

More Definitions of Failed System

Failed System means any individual sewage disposal system that does not adequately treat and dispose of sewage so as to create a public or private nuisance or threat to public health and/or environmental quality, as evidenced by, but not limited to, one or more of the following conditions:

Failed System means a seepage pit, cesspool, drywell, leaching pit, other pit, a tank that obviously leaks below the designated operating depth, or any system with less than the required vertical separation as described in 7080.0060, subpart 3.