18 AAC 60.810. Surface water monitoring

(a) The department will require a surface water monitoring system at a facility if the department finds that surface water pollution is likely to endanger public health or cause a violation of the water quality standards in 18 AAC 70.

(b) If surface water monitoring is required under (a) of this section, surface water must be sampled at points of compliance selected by the permittee and approved by the department. The points of compliance must be chosen so that highest concentrations of hazardous constituents migrating off the facility will be detected and so that interference from sources of pollution unrelated to the facility's solid waste management operations will be minimized. The point of compliance will normally be located no more than 50 feet outside a waste management area boundary and on land owned by the owner of the facility. When establishing a point of compliance under this subsection, the owner or operator may, and the department will, consider the criteria of 18 AAC 60.825(c) that are applicable to surface water.

(c) If surface water monitoring is required under (a) of this section, points of compliance must be sampled during high flow and low flow conditions each year unless another schedule is approved or required by the department to meet the standards in (a) of this section.

(d) If surface water monitoring is required under (a) of this section, monitoring parameters will be selected by the department from those that are set out in 18 AAC 60.840. The department will approve alternative parameters that are indicative of the type of hazardous constituents associated with the type of waste handled at the facility.

(e) If surface water monitoring is required under (a) of this section, the owner or operator shall develop surface water monitoring procedures, including consistent sampling and analysis procedures designed to ensure that monitoring results provide an accurate representation of surface water quality at each location sampled. The owner or operator shall set out the procedures in a handbook or similar document and shall place the document in the operating record of the facility. The surface water monitoring procedures must include procedures and techniques for

(1) sample collections;

(2) sample preservation and shipment;

(3) analytical procedures;

(4) chain of custody control; and

(5) quality assurance and quality control.

(f) If surface water monitoring is required under (a) of this section, the owner or operator shall

(1) submit the results of surface water monitoring to the department after each sampling collection; and

(2) keep records of surface water monitoring conducted under this section with the operating record of the facility for at least five years after the monitoring was conducted.

(g) After a surface water monitoring program is established under this section, the owner or operator shall continue to comply with the surface water monitoring plan while the facility is active and throughout the monitoring period after the facility is closed.

History: Eff. 1/28/96, Register 137; am 10/29/98, Register 148

Authority: AS 44.46.020

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