Ohio Admin. Code 901:10-2-08 - Contents of the manure management plan: inspections, maintenance and monitoring
A manure management plan is a plan developed to minimize water pollution and protect waters of the state. The manure management plan shall include best management practices for reuse and recycling nutrients, prevent direct contact of confined animals with waters of the state, and ensure proper mortality management.
(A) The manure
management plan shall specify the frequency of inspections to be conducted by
the owner or operator at the manure storage or treatment facility;
and
(B) The owner or operator shall
maintain a list of equipment used, including land application equipment and a
written chronological record of the dates of inspections, maintenance,
calibration monitoring and repairs that shall be maintained in the operating
record required by rule
901:10-2-16
of the Administrative Code and be made readily available during an inspection
of the facility. These records shall also be made available at the request of
the director. All repairs shall be completed promptly. The department shall
inspect any major structural repairs; and
(C) The owner or operator must periodically
inspect equipment used for land application of manure, litter, or process
wastewater for leaks.
(D) At a
minimum, the following must be inspected, performed, monitored or maintained at
the manure storage or treatment facility and documented in the operating
record:
(1) The operating level of manure
treatment lagoons and manure storage ponds. The operating level must not exceed
the level that provides adequate storage to contain a precipitation event as
required in rules
901:10-3-02
to
901:10-3-06
of the Administrative Code, plus an additional one foot of freeboard.
(2) The operating level of fabricated
structures must not exceed the level that provides adequate storage to contain
a precipitation event as required in rules
901:10-3-02
to
901:10-3-06
of the Administrative Code, plus an additional six inches of freeboard, unless
the fabricated structure is designed and maintained for solid manure and is not
subject to precipitation.
(3) For
paragraphs (D)(1) and (D)(2) of this rule, the maximum operating level shall
not exceed that specified in the manure management plan.
(4) Inspect in order to confirm that domestic
and industrial wastewater from showers, toilets, sinks, medical wastes,
chemicals and other contaminants etc., handled on-site are not discharged into
the manure storage or treatment facility unless designed and permitted to do
so.
(5) Manure storage or treatment
facilities under the control of the owner or operator shall be inspected for
evidence of erosion, leakage, animal damage, cracking, excessive vegetation, or
discharge.
(6) Inspect liquid
manure volume weekly and note in the operating record the level of liquid
manure in manure storage or treatment facilities by the depth marker required
in paragraph (D)(15) of this rule.
(7) Document in the operating record
procedures to ensure proper operation and maintenance of liquid manure in
storage or treatment facilities, when manure and manure residuals are removed
from the manure storage pond or manure treatment lagoon. The owner or operator
shall take care to prevent damage to lagoon or pond dikes and liners when
manure residuals are removed.
(8)
Inspect to determine that all stormwater conveyances are maintained to keep
runoff from the surrounding property and buildings and stormwater shall be
diverted away from the manure treatment lagoons and manure storage ponds to
prevent any unnecessary addition to the liquid volume in these structures,
unless they are designed for such runoff containment. Identify appropriate
buffer strips or equivalent practices, to control runoff of manure to waters of
the state, and divert clean water, as appropriate, out of the production
area.
(9) Conduct weekly
inspections of stormwater or diversion devices, runoff diversion structures,
devices channeling contaminated stormwater to the manure storage pond or manure
treatment lagoon and note proper operation and maintenance in the operating
record.
(10) Inspect the protective
vegetative cover and any other approved means or materials for erosion control
to determine that cover is maintained on all disturbed areas (lagoon or pond
embankments, berms, pipe runs, erosion control areas, etc.).
(11) Ensure that any emerging vegetation such
as trees, shrubs and other woody species shall not be allowed to grow on the
pond or lagoon dikes or side slopes. Pond or lagoon areas are to be kept mowed
and accessible unless these areas are grassed waterways or buffers that manage
precipitation and runoff.
(12)
Surface water and groundwater protection.
(a)
Conduct annual sampling and analysis of ground water for nitrates and total
coliform from a well as described by paragraph (A)(2)(e) or (B)(2)(d) of rule
901:10-2-03
of the Administrative Code. In the event that a well does not already exist at
the facility and the operation is not an operation as described in paragraph
(A)(1) of rule
901:10-2-03
of the Administrative Code or is not served by a public water system as defined
by paragraph XXX of rule
901:10-1-01 of the
Administrative Code, then the owner or operator shall install a well at the
facility that is properly located, protected and operated. The well shall be
easily accessible for sampling and have an adequate water quantity for
sampling.
(b) The director may
require additional sampling, including but not limited to, ground water samples
from any additional ground water monitoring wells installed as required in
paragraph (C)(2) of rule
901:10-2-03
of the Administrative Code.
(c) The
director may require samples of manure discharges from the production area that
may occur.
(d) The director may
require monitoring or sampling, or both, of subsurface perimeter drains around
manure storage or treatment facilities; and
(e) Results of sampling and analysis shall be
documented in the operating record and, for manure discharges from the
production area, results shall also be recorded in the annual report submitted
to the director in accordance with rule
901:10-2-20 of the
Administrative Code.
(13)
Ensure proper management of dead livestock as required by rule
901:10-2-15
of the Administrative Code to ensure that there shall be no discharge of
mortality to waters of the state and no disposal in a manure storage or
treatment facility that is not specifically designed to treat animal
mortalities.
(14) Inspect drinking
water lines daily, including drinking water or cooling water lines that are
located above ground, readily visible or accessible for daily inspections, and
record in the operating record.
(15) All liquid manure in manure storage or
treatment facilities must have a depth marker or other appropriate device as
approved by the director in accordance with rule
901:10-2-05
or
901:10-2-06
of the Administrative Code which clearly indicates the minimum capacity
necessary to contain the runoff and direct precipitation of the twenty-five
year, twenty four hour rainfall event. In the case of new sources subject to
the requirement in paragraph (D)(1) of rule
901:10-3-06
of the Administrative Code, all open surface manure storage structures
associated with such sources must include a depth marker or other appropriate
device as approved by the director in accordance with rule
901:10-2-05
or
901:10-2-06
of the Administrative Code which clearly indicates the minimum capacity
necessary to contain the maximum runoff and direct precipitation associated
with the design storm used in sizing the impoundment for no
discharge.
(E) The
director may determine that the monitoring required in paragraphs (D)(6),
(D)(14), and (D)(15) of this rule may use alternative monitoring devices.
Alternative monitoring devices include, but are not limited to, sensors, remote
sensors, electronic alarms, wireless receivers, other real time warning
systems, or other flow control structure, or other steady state overflow
structures.
(1) The owner or operator shall
identify the alternative monitoring devices in the manure management plan
submitted to the director. In approving the manure management plan, the
director may approve the alternative monitoring devices.
(2) The director may notify the owner or
operator in writing to cease use of alternative monitoring devices if at any
time that the director or the director's representative find that the operating
record and documents maintained as required by this rule contain false or
misleading information.
(F) Any deficiencies found as a result of the
inspections conducted under this rule are to be corrected as soon as possible
and listed in the operating record in accordance with rule
901:10-2-16
of the Administrative Code.
Notes
Promulgated Under: 119.03
Statutory Authority: 903.08, 903.10
Rule Amplifies: 903.01, 903.02, 903.03, 903.05, 903.07, 903.08, 903.081, 903.082, 903.09, 903.10
Prior Effective Dates: 07/02/2002, 09/15/2005, 01/23/2009, 09/01/2011, 06/08/2014
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