Title Definition
Make-up water

The water added back into the cooling tower recirculating water stream to replace water lost to evaporation, blowdown, or other mechanisms of water loss. 

Managed underground storage facility

"Managed underground storage facility" means a facility that meets the requirements of section 45-811.01 and that is designed and managed to utilize the natural channel of a stream to store water underground pursuant to permits issued under this chapter through artificial and controlled releases of water other than surface water naturally present in the stream. Surface water flowing in its natural channel is not a managed underground storage facility.

Master replenishment account

"Master replenishment account" means an account established pursuant to section 45-858.01 for a groundwater replenishment district.

Maximum Annual Groundwater Allotment

Maximum amount of groundwater that may be used per year for the irrigation of each irrigation acre in the farm that is calculated pursuant to A.R.S. § 45-465.

Mill circuit

The flow of water used in the process of crushing ore, recovering copper at the mill concentrator, and transporting and disposing of tailings, and includes recovery of water at the tailings impoundments for reuse in the mill concentrator. 

Mill Concentrator

The structure at open-pit metal mines within which metallic ore is crushed and the flotation process is used to remove minerals.

Monitor Well

This is a well that is designed and drilled for the purpose of monitoring water quality within a specific depth interval. A.A.C. R12-15-801(17).

Multi-family housing unit

A mobile home in a mobile home park and any permanent housing unit having one or more common walls with another housing unit located in a multifamily residential structure, and includes a unit in a duplex, triplex, fourplex, condominium development, town home development, or apartment complex.

Municipal Distribution System

A system of pipes, canals or other works within a municipal provider’s service area which are owned and operated by the provider to collect, store, treat or deliver water for non-irrigation use.

Municipal provider

This means a city, town, private water company or irrigation district that supplies water for non-irrigation use A.R.S. §45-454(M3).