OAR 340-055-0013: Exempted Use of Recycled Water

Recycled water used by a wastewater treatment system owner for landscape irrigation or for in plant processes at a wastewater treatment system is exempt from the rules of this division if: (1) The recycled water is an oxidized and disinfected wastewater; (2) The recycled water is used at the wastewater treatment system site where it is generated or at an auxiliary wastewater or sludge treatment facility that is subject to the same NPDES or WPCF permit as the wastewater treatment system. Contiguous property to the parcel of land upon which the treatment system is located is considered the wastewater treatment system site if under the same ownership; (3) Spray or drift or both from the use does not occur off the site; and (4) Public access to the site is restricted.