part_subject: "NATIONAL PRIMARY DRINKING WATER REGULATIONS"
subpart_code: "T"
subpart_subject: "Enhanced Filtration and Disinfection—Systems Serving Fewer Than 10,000 People"
section_number: "141.511"
section_subject: "What is required of new finished water reservoirs?"
cfr_reference: "40 CFR 141.511"
title_name: "Title 40"
title_subject: "Protection of Environment"
parts_covered: "Parts 136 to 149"
revised_date: "Revised as of July 1, 2019"
publication_date: "As of July 1, 2019"
contains_description: "Containing a codification of documents of general applicability and future effect"
publication_info: "Published by the Office of the Federal Register National Archives and Records Administration as a Special Edition of the Federal Register"
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If your system begins construction of a finished water reservoir on or after March 15, 2002 the reservoir must be covered. Finished water reservoirs for which your system began construction prior to March 15, 2002 are not subject to this requirement.