Treatment Works

{
  "id": "MLC-T-ENV-028680",
  "term": "Treatment Works",
  "field": "Environment",
  "definition": "1. Federally owned, publicly owned, or privately owned device or system used to treat (including recycle and reclaim) either domestic sewage or a combination of domestic sewage and industrial waste of a liquid nature.\n\n2. Municipal or domestic waste treatment facilities of any type which are publicly owned or regulated to the extent that feasible compliance schedules are determined by the availability of funding provided by Federal, State, or local governments.\n\n3. Devices and systems for the storage, treatment, recycling, and reclamation of municipal sewage, domestic sewage, or liquid industrial wastes used to implement section 201 of the Act, or necessary to recycle or reuse water at the most economical cost over the design life of the works. These include intercepting sewers, outfall sewers, sewage collection systems, individual systems, pumping, power, and other equipment and their appurtenances; extensions, improvement, remodeling, additions, and alterations thereof; elements essential to provide a reliable recycled supply such as standby treatment units and clear well facilities; and any works, including acquisition of the land that will be an integral part of the treatment process or is used for ultimate disposal of residues resulting from such treatment (including land for composting sludge, temporary storage of such compost and land used for the storage of treated wastewater in land treatment systems before land application); or any other method or system for preventing, abating, reducing, storing, treating, separating, or disposing of municipal waste or industrial waste, including waste in combined storm water and sanitary sewer systems.\n\n4. Meaning given the term in section 212 of the Federal Water Pollution Control Act (33 U.S.C. 1292).",
  "references": [
    "40 CFR 503.9 (CFR 2013)",
    "40 CFR 220.2 (CFR 2013)",
    "40 CFR 35.2005 (CFR 2018)",
    "40 CFR 35.1005 (CFR 2018)"
  ],
  "url": "https://mlchart.com/terminology/environment/treatment-works/"
}