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Ground Water Under the Direct Influence of Surface Water (GWUDISW) Ken Morin, P.E. BLM (slides’ content originally prepared by: Bob Clement, EPA) Summary GWUDISW must meet the same treatment technologies as surface water. Disinfection is mandatory. Filtration is mandatory, unless the system meets the filtration avoidance criteria. Does this meet the filtration treatment technology standard? If disinfection is also provided would this system be in compliance with the SWTR? Filtration definitions [40 CFR 141.2] Direct filtration means a series of processes including coagulation and filtration, but excluding sedimentation, resulting in substantial particulate removal. Conventional filtration means a series of processes including coagulation, flocculation, sedimentation, filtration resulting in substantial particulate removal Filtration definitions [40 CFR 141.2] Diatomaceous earth filtration means substantial particulate removal in which a precoat of DE filter media is deposited on a support filter while water passes through the cake and additional DE is added. Slow sand filtration means a process involving passage a raw water through a bed of sand at a low velocity 0.4 m/h resulting in substantial particulate removal by physical and biological mechanisms. Ground Water Under the Direct Influence of Surface Water (GWUDISW) Definition: Any water beneath the surface of the ground with significant occurrence of: insects other macroorganisms, algae, or large diameter pathogens such as Giardia lamblia [40 CFR 141.2] OR Ground Water Under the Direct Influence of Surface Water (GWUDISW) [continued] Definition: Any water beneath the surface of the ground with significant and relatively rapid shifts in water characteristics such as: turbidity, temperature, conductivity, or pH that closely correlates to climatological or surface water conditions. [40 CFR 141.2] Ground Water Under the Direct Influence of Surface Water (GWUDISW) [concluded] Direct influen