TRANSFER (Number) 634 A system using structures, pipes or conduits General Criteria Applicable to All Purposes installed to convey wastes or waste byproducts Permits. Notify landowner and/or contractor of from the agricultural production site to responsibility to locate all buried utilities in the storage/treatment or application. project area, including drainage tile and other structural measures. The landowner is also required to obtain all necessary permits for project installation prior to construction. To transfer agricultural waste material associated with production, processing, and Structures. Structures including concrete pits, harvesting to: tanks, hoppers, manholes, and channels used for waste transfer, prefabricated or cast in place, a storage facility, must meet the criteria in NRCS Conservation a treatment facility, Practice Standard (CPS) Waste Storage Facility (Code 313) for liquid tightness and structural a handling or loading area, strength, regardless of materials used for agricultural land for agronomic application. construction. Design all structures, including those that provide a work area around pumps to withstand The waste transfer system is included as an the design static and dynamic loading. Design element of the agricultural production area, structures to withstand earth and hydrostatic storage/treatment facility and/or land application loading as specified for comparable structural areas of the agricultural operation. criteria in NRCS CPS Waste Storage Facility (Code 313). The practice applies where it is necessary to transfer waste material generated by livestock In locating structures, utilize existing topography production or agricultural product processing to the greatest extent possible to generate head from: on effluent flow and reduce pumping requirements. the generation site to the application area, Investigate the subsurface conditions (i.e., depth the generation site to a storage/treatment to bedrock, soil classification, water table, etc.) facility, when locating and designing structures. the storage/treatment facility to land for Size reception pits (areas established to agronomic application. temporarily accumulate effluent flow) to contain This practice does not apply to hauling waste a minimum volume of one full day’s waste material with equipment or vehicles. production. Provide additional storage for reception pits receiving stormwater runoff to contain the volume of precipitation and runoff from the 25-year, 24-hour storm plus any required freeboard and emergency storage.
TRANSFER (Number) 634 A system using structures, pipes or conduits installed to convey wastes or waste byproducts from the agricultural production site to storage/treatment or application. To transfer agricultural waste material associated with production, processing, and harvesting to: a storage facility, a treatment facility, a handling or loading area, agricultural land for agronomic application. The waste transfer system is included as an element of the agricultural production area, storage/treatment facility and/or land application areas of the agricultural operation. The practice applies where it is necessary to transfer waste material generated by livestock production or agricultural product processing from: the generation site to the application area, the generation site to a storage/treatment facility, the storage/treatment facility to land for agronomic application. This practice does not apply to hauling waste material with equipment or vehicles. General Criteria Applicable to All Purposes Permits. Notify landowner and/or contractor of responsibility to locate all buried utilities in the project area, including drainage tile and other structural measures. The landowner is also required to obtain all necessary permits for project installation prior to construction. Structures. Structures including concrete pits, tanks, hoppers, manholes, and channels used for waste transfer, prefabricated or cast in place, must meet the criteria in NRCS Conservation Practice Standard (CPS) Waste Storage Facility (Code 313) for liquid tightness and structural strength, regardless of materials used for construction. Design all structures, including those that provide a work area around pumps to withstand the design static and dynamic loading. Design structures to withstand earth and hydrostatic loading as specified for comparable structural criteria in NRCS CPS Waste Storage Facility (Code 313). In locating structures, utilize existing topography to the greatest extent possible to generate head on effluent flow and reduce pumping requirements. Investigate the subsurface conditions (i.e., depth to bedrock, soil classification, water table, etc.) when locating and designing structures. Size reception pits (areas established to temporarily accumulate effluent flow) to contain a minimum volume of one full day’s waste production. Provide additional storage for reception pits receiving stormwater runoff to contain the volume of precipitation and runoff from the 25-year, 24-hour storm plus any required freeboard and emergency storage.
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