| #D001 | | PRD | Pesticides Regulatory Directorate | high |
| #D002 | | PMRA | Pest Management Regulatory Agency | high |
| #D003 | | ECCC | Environment and Climate Change Canada | high |
| #D004 | | deposit | any action that results in a deleterious substance making its way into waters frequented by fish, including: discharging, spraying, releasing, spilling, leaking, seeping, pouring, emitting, emptying, throwing, dumping, placing | high |
| #D005 | | deleterious substance | any substance that, if added to any water would degrade or alter the water quality such that it could directly or indirectly harm fish, fish habitat, or the use of fish by humans. | high |
| #D006 | | water frequented by fish | Canadian fisheries waters, which includes all: waters in the Canadian fishing zones, waters in the territorial seas of Canada, internal waters (waters within Canada’s landmass), including waterways such as: rivers, lakes, creeks, canals, other such water bodies | high |
| #D007 | | fish | includes finfish as well as a range of other organisms that live in water. The definition of fish also comprises all stages of the life cycle of fish (e.g. from the egg to adult) and includes all parts of fish, such as shellfish, crustaceans, and marine animals. | high |
| #D008 | | Chemical characterizations | use lab-based testing to identify individual deleterious substances within a sample of the deposit. | high |
| #D009 | | Toxicity tests | used to determine the potential effects of a mixture of substances in an effluent. | high |
| #D010 | | Groundwater Extraction Discharge | The discharge of groundwater removed from the ground or drainage collection systems to lower groundwater levels or pressures, control or eliminate groundwater seepage or leakage, stabilize slopes and other earth structures, or form part of a system to remediate groundwater contamination. Groundwater extraction discharges are associated with groundwater control systems employed in construction and foundation dewatering projects, trench and ditch dewatering projects, monitoring wells, tank removal projects, groundwater remediation projects, permanent groundwater drainage and seepage control projects, and other similar activities. The term as used in this Order does not include permanent groundwater extraction discharges to San Diego Bay or reaches of its tributaries under tidal influence with the exception of the discharge to San Diego Bay from the permanent groundwater drainage control system at One America Plaza in the City of San Diego. | high |
| #D011 | | Discharger | Any person that is authorized to discharge extracted groundwater under this Order through an NOA issued by the San Diego Water Board. | high |
| #D012 | | Waters of the United States | Generally refers to surface waters, as defined for the purposes of the federal Clean Water Act. For the purpose of this Order, the terms 'surface water', and 'receiving water' are interchangeably used to mean 'waters of the United States,' unless noted otherwise. | high |
| #D013 | | Notice of Exclusion (NOEX) | A NOEX is a notice that indicates that the discharge is not eligible for coverage under this Order and states the reason why. | high |
| #D014 | | Notice of Termination (NOT) | The NOT provides notice that the Discharger has ceased the discharge of extracted groundwater associated with the groundwater control activities at the site under this Order. | high |
| #D015 | | Average Monthly Effluent Limitation (AMEL) | The highest allowable average of daily discharges over a calendar month, calculated as the sum of all daily discharges measured during a calendar month divided by the number of daily discharges measured during that month. | high |
| #D016 | | Chronic Toxicity | This parameter shall be used to measure the acceptability of waters for supporting a healthy biota until improved methods are developed to evaluate biological response. | high |
| #D017 | | Contamination | 'Contamination' means an impairment of the quality of the waters of the state by waste to a degree which creates a hazard to the public health through poisoning or through the spread of disease. 'Contamination' includes any equivalent effect resulting from the disposal of waste, whether or not waters of the state are affected. [CWC section 13050(k)] | high |
| #D018 | | Daily Discharge | Daily Discharge is defined as either: (1) the total mass of the constituent discharged over the calendar day (12:00 am through 11:59 pm) or any 24-hour period that reasonably represents a calendar day for purposes of sampling (as specified in the permit), for a constituent with limitations expressed in units of mass or; (2) the unweighted arithmetic mean measurement of the constituent over the day for a constituent with limitations expressed in other units of measurement (e.g., concentration). | high |
| #D019 | | Detected, but Not Quantified (DNQ) | DNQ are those sample results less than the RL, but greater than or equal to the laboratory's MDL. Sample results reported as DNQ are estimated concentrations. | high |
| #D020 | | Enclosed Bays | Enclosed Bays are indentations along the coast that enclose an area of oceanic water within distinct headlands or harbor works. Enclosed bays include all bays where the narrowest distance between the headlands or outermost harbor works is less than 75 percent of the greatest dimension of the enclosed portion of the bay. Enclosed bays of the San Diego Region include, but are not limited to, Mission Bay, and San Diego Bay. Enclosed bays do not include inland surface waters or ocean waters. | high |
| #D021 | | Estuaries | Estuaries means waters, including coastal lagoons, located at the mouths of streams that serve as areas of mixing for fresh and ocean waters. Coastal lagoons and mouths of streams that are temporarily separated from the ocean by sandbars shall be considered estuaries. Estuarine waters shall be considered to extend from a bay or the open ocean to a point upstream where there is no significant mixing of fresh water and seawater. | high |
| #D022 | | Nuisance | 'Nuisance' means anything which meets all of the following requirements: (1) Is injurious to health, or is indecent or offensive to the senses, or an obstruction to the free use of property, so as to interfere with the comfortable enjoyment of life or property. (2) Affects at the same time an entire community or neighborhood, or any considerable number of persons, although the extent of the annoyance or damage inflicted upon individuals may be unequal. (3) Occurs during, or as a result of, the treatment or disposal of waste. [Water Code section 13050(m). | high |
| #D023 | | Pollution | 'Pollution' means an alteration of the quality of the waters of the state by waste to a degree which unreasonably affects either of the following: (A) The waters for beneficial uses. (B) Facilities which serve these beneficial uses. 'Pollution' may include 'contamination.' [Water Code section 13050(l) | high |
| #D024 | | Test of Significant Toxicity (TST) | A statistical approach used to analyze toxicity test data. The TST incorporates a restated null hypothesis, Welch's t-test, and biological effect thresholds for chronic and acute toxicity. | high |
| #D025 | | ASBS | Areas of Special Biological Significance | high |
| #D026 | | Basin Plan | Water Quality Control Plan for the San Diego Basin | high |
| #D027 | | Average Weekly Effluent Limitation (AWEL) | The highest allowable average of daily discharges over a calendar week (Sunday through Saturday), calculated as the sum of all daily discharges measured during a calendar week divided by the number of daily discharges measured during that week. | high |
| #D028 | | Bypass | the intentional diversion of waste streams from any portion of a treatment facility. | high |
| #D029 | | Upset | an exceptional incident in which there is unintentional and temporary noncompliance with technology based permit effluent limitations because of factors beyond the reasonable control of the Discharger. | high |
| #D030 | | Extraction | Extraction is the act of forcibly withdrawing groundwater from the sub surface. Extraction through mechanical means is termed 'active' extraction, such as when using pumps to extract groundwater. Alternatively, 'passive' extraction is through the use of gravity, such as with a french drain or weep hole. | high |
| #D031 | | Groundwater | Groundwater means any water, except capillary moisture, located beneath the land surface in soil pore spaces and in the fractures of rock formations or beneath the bed of any river, stream, lake, reservoir, or other body of surface water, whatever the subsurface geologic structure in which such water stands, flows, percolates or otherwise occurs. | high |
| #D032 | | Hardness | A characteristic of water caused mainly by the salts of calcium and magnesium, such as bicarbonate, carbonate, sulfate, chloride and nitrate. Hardness or total hardness is generally defined as the sum of the calcium and magnesium concentrations expressed in milligrams per liter of equivalent calcium carbonate. | high |
| #D033 | | Ocean Waters | The territorial marine waters of the state as defined by California law to the extent these waters are outside of enclosed bays, estuaries, and coastal lagoons. Discharges to ocean waters are regulated in accordance with the State Water Board's California Ocean Plan | high |
| #D034 | | Fisheries Act | a federal legislation, dating back to 1868, which aims to manage and protect Canada's fisheries resources. | high |