Requirements for Any Storage of Sludge or Septage

No person shall store sludge or septage except in compliance with the following requirements: (1) Protecting All Groundwater. Sludge or septage shall not be stored at any location where there is less than four feet of unsaturated soil between the lowest point of such storage and the maximum high groundwater table. (2) Protecting Groundwater Sources of Public Water Supply. Sludge or septage shall not be stored anywhere within a radius of 2,500 feet of any location under which there is an existing, planned, or potential groundwater public water supply unless either (a) a hydrogeologic study persuades the Department that such storage will not result in contamination of such groundwater, or (b) the sludge or septage is stored in watertight containers or by another comparable method which prevents leakage. (3) Protecting Private Water Supply Wells. Sludge or septage shall not be stored anywhere within a radius of 500 feet of any well used as a private drinking water supply well unless such sludge or septage is stored in watertight containers or by another comparable method which prevents leakage. (4) Protecting Surface Waters. (a) Unless it is stored in a watertight container or by another comparable method which prevents leakage, sludge or septage shall not be stored 1. within the watershed of any Class A surface water, 2. within any 100-year flood plain, as then most recently mapped by the Federal Emergency Management Agency, 3. between the high water line of any pond or lake and a line 500 feet landward of the high water line of that pond or lake. (b) Sludge or septage shall not be stored below the high water mark of any surface water. (5) Control Measures. Sludge or septage shall be stored in a manner that does not create or threaten to create: 1. a nuisance, or 2. a threat to public health, or 3. a threat to the environment.