Point source pollution definition

Point source pollution means pollution of state waters resulting from any discernible, defined or
Point source pollution means pollution discharged directly from a specific site such as a municipal sewage treatment plant or an industrial outfall pipe.
Point source pollution means any source of water pollution that constitutes a discernible, confined, and discrete conveyance, including but not limited to any pipe, ditch, channel, tunnel, conduit, well, discrete fissure, container, rolling stock, concentrated animal feeding operation, or vessel or other floating craft, from which pollutants are or may be discharged. This term does not include return flows from irrigated agriculture.

Examples of Point source pollution in a sentence

  • Point source pollution has a clearly defined point of origin (such as effluents discharged into the sewerage system from households and factories).

  • Point source pollution comes from a clearly identifiable point such as a pipe which discharges directly into a waterbody.

  • Point source pollution is discharged by a discernable, confined, and discrete conveyance (e.g., pipes, ditches) and subject to NPDES permitting under Section 402 of the CWA.

  • Point source pollution is that which comes from a specific source, such as a pipe, and can easily be identified, measured, licensed, or removed.

  • Point source pollution is pollution from “any discernible, confined and discrete conveyance.” 33U.S.C. § 1362(14).


More Definitions of Point source pollution

Point source pollution means a single identifiable source of pollution from which pollutants are discharged, such as a pipe, ditch, or ship or factory smokestack.
Point source pollution means any discernible, confined, and discrete conveyance, including, but not limited to, any pipe, channel, tunnel conduit, well, discrete fissure, container, rolling stock, vessel, other floating craft, or other conveyance, over which the Nebraska Department of Environmental Quality has regulatory authority and from which a substance which can cause or contribute to contamination of groundwater is or may be discharged.
Point source pollution means pollution emitted into
Point source pollution means pollution that enters the surface water, ground water, or
Point source pollution means any discernible, confined and discrete conveyance, including but not limited to any pipe, ditch, channel, tunnel, conduit or well from which pollution is or may be added to any stream.
Point source pollution means any source of water pollution that constitutes a discernible, confined, and discrete conveyance, including but not limited to any pipe, ditch, channel, tunnel, conduit, well, discrete fissure, container, rolling stock, concentrated animal feeding operation, or vessel or other floating
Point source pollution means a single identifiable source of pollution from