Terms Used In Louisiana Revised Statutes 30:2072

  • Discharge: means the placing, releasing, spilling, percolating, draining, pumping, leaking, seeping, emitting, or other escaping of pollutants into the air, waters, subsurface water, or ground as the result of a prior act or omission; or the placing of pollutants into pits, drums, barrels, or similar containers under conditions and circumstances that leaking, seeping, draining, or escaping of the pollutants can be reasonably anticipated. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 30:2004
  • Waters of the state: means both the surface and underground waters within the state of Louisiana including all rivers, streams, lakes, groundwaters, and all other water courses and waters within the confines of the state, and all bordering waters and the Gulf of Mexico. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 30:2073

The legislature finds and declares that the waters of the state of Louisiana are among the state’s most important natural resources and their continued protection and safeguard is of vital concern to the citizens of this state.  To insure the proper protection and maintenance of the state’s waters, it is necessary to adopt a system to control and regulate the discharge of waste materials, pollutants, and other substances into the waters of the state.

 

Acts 1979, No. 449, §1, eff. Jan. 1, 1980.  

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