NAC445A.687. “Alternative” defined.

“Alternative,” as used to describe a method of treating wastewater, means any proven process or technique for the treatment of wastewater which provides for the reclamation and reuse of water, recovers energy, productively recycles the constituents of wastewater or otherwise eliminates the discharge of pollutants. The term includes:

     1. Land application of effluent and sludge.

     2. Recharge of aquifers.

     3. Aquaculture.

     4. Direct reuse.

     5. Horticulture.

     6. Revegetation of disturbed land.

     7. Containment ponds.

     8. The composting and drying of sludge before land application.

     9. Self-sustaining incineration.

     10. Recovery of methane.

     11. Individual and on-site systems.

     12. Small-diameter pressure and vacuum sewers or small-diameter gravity sewers carrying partially or fully treated wastewater.

     (Added to NAC by Environmental Comm’n, eff. 9-19-90)—(Substituted in revision for NAC 445.42052)