Definitions For Great Lakes Water Withdrawal Registration For
purposes of implementing the Great Lakes Water Conservation and
Management Act, the following definitions are applicable for
registering water withdrawals and losses. - Facility is one or
more pieces of water withdrawal equipment at the same site,
including but not limited to any place of business, farm,
factory, industrial or commercial site, institution, structure,
open land, vessel, or rolling stock, where water is withdrawn
for any purpose. - Agriculture is the practice of farming on a
farm for crops, plants, vines and trees; and the keeping,
grazing or feeding of livestock for sale as livestock or
livestock products. - Farm is an agricultural business that may
be composed of up to 25 non-contiguous parcels of land within a
radius of 40 miles that are under the ownership or control of
the same person. - Water withdrawal is a withdrawal of surface
or ground water from the Great Lakes Basin of 100,000 gallons
per day averaged over 30 consecutive