Idaho State Statutes - Idaho Attorney Directory

As used in section 39-102, Idaho Code, and in
sections 39-120 through 39-127, Idaho Code:
(1) "Cleanup" means removal, treatment or isolation of a contaminant from
ground water through the directed efforts of humans or the removal or
treatment of a contaminant in ground water through management practice or the
construction of barriers, trenches and other similar facilities for prevention
of contamination, as well as the use of natural processes such as ground water
recharge, natural decay and chemical or biological decomposition.
(2) "Contaminant" means any chemical, ion, radionuclide, synthetic
organic compound, microorganism, waste or other substance which does not occur
naturally in ground water or which naturally occurs at a lower concentration.
(3) "Contamination" means the direct or indirect introduction into ground
water of any contaminant caused in whole or in part by human activities.
(4) "Ground water" means any water of the state which occurs beneath the
surface of the earth in a saturated geological formation of rock or soil.
(5) "Ground water quality plan" or "ground water quality protection plan"
means the Idaho ground water quality plan adopted by the legislature in
section 1, chapter 310, laws of 1992, and in section 1, chapter 273, laws of
1995.

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