Point Source Emission

{
  "id": "MLC-T-ENV-021363",
  "term": "Point Source Emission",
  "field": "Environment",
  "definition": "1. Emission from any 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 (CAFO), landfill leachate collection system, vessel or other floating craft from which pollutants are or may be discharged. This term does not include return flows from irrigated agriculture or agricultural stormwater runoff.\n\n2. A stationary location or fixed facility from which pollutants are discharged; any single identifiable source of pollution; e.g., a pipe, ditch, ship, ore pit, factory smokestack.[RCRA Glossary of Terms]\n\n3. A fixed location or facility that discharges pollution - for example, a factory smokestack, a ship, an ore pit, a ditch, or a pipe discharging treated industrial wastewater or treated sewage into a waterway.\n\n4. A pollutant source that can be treated in a dispersion model as though pollutants were emitted from a single point that is fixed in space. Example: the mouth of a smokestack. Compare area source and line source.",
  "references": [
    "National Pollutant Discharge Elimination System (NPDES) Glossary",
    "Terms of Environment",
    "EPA Report on the Environment Glossary at http://www.epa.gov/ncea/roe/glossary.htm",
    "NOAA National Weather Service Glossary"
  ],
  "url": "https://mlchart.com/terminology/environment/point-source-emission/"
}