§ 8.95.020. Definitions.

As used in this chapter:

(1)

"Board" means the board of supervisors of the county of San Luis Obispo.

(2)

"Bulletin 118" means the California Department of Water Resources' report entitled "California's Groundwater: Bulletin 118" updated in 2003 and as it may be subsequently updated and revised.

(3)

"County" means the County of San Luis Obispo.

(4)

"Contiguous parcels" means parcels which abut, adjoin or otherwise touch each other at more than one point along a common boundary or which would do so except for separation by a strip of land over which some person or entity, other than the owner of the parcels, has some property interest, including fee title or some lesser interest, such as a leasehold or easement. Examples of such strips of land include, but are not limited to, roads, streets, utility easements, railroad rights-of-way, canals and drainage channels.

(5)

"Department" means the county department of public works and transportation.

(6)

"Director" means the county director of public works and transportation or his or her designee.

(7)

"Contaminated groundwater" means groundwater that has been altered by waste, seawater intrusion or other material to a degree which creates a hazard to the public health through actual or potential poisoning or through actual or potential spreading of disease.

(8)

"Export" means the extraction of groundwater underlying the county for use outside the boundaries of the groundwater basin from which the groundwater is derived, or for use outside of the county.

(9)

"Groundwater" means water beneath the surface of the earth within the zone below the water table in which the soil is completely saturated with water but does not include water that flows in known and definite channels.

(10)

"Groundwater basin" means a groundwater basin or subbasin identified and defined in Bulletin 118 or as modified pursuant to Water Code Section 10722 et seq.

(11)

"Historical practice" means the consistent or predominant practice within seven years preceding the effective date of this chapter.

(12)

"Local water agency" means any single local public agency, mutual water company, non-profit tax exempt incorporated association or water corporation regulated by the public utilities commission within, or partially within, the county which is a purveyor of waters for agricultural, domestic or municipal use. For purposes of the exemption set forth in Section 8.95.040(3), "local water agency" shall not include a collection of two or more local water agencies that form a joint powers agency pursuant to Government Code Section 6500 et seq. or that form a groundwater sustainability agency pursuant to Water Code Section 10723 et seq.

(13)

"Person" means any person, firm, association, organization, partnership, business, trust, corporation, limited liability company, or local public agency, including any city, county, city and county, district or joint powers authority.

(14)

"Recharge" means flow to groundwater storage from precipitation, irrigation, infiltration from steams, spreading basins and other sources of water.

(15)

"Site" means any lot or parcel of land or contiguous combination thereof having the same owner, the same lessee or the same controlling entity in existence on the effective date of this chapter.

(16)

"Usable storage capacity" means the quantity of groundwater of acceptable quality that can be economically withdrawn from storage.

(17)

"Water year" means the year beginning January 1 and ending December 31.

(Ord. No. 3295, § 1, 4-14-15)