As used in this chapter:
(a) "Sewage works" means Publicly Owned Treatment Works (POTW) and all facilities for collecting, pumping, treating and disposing of sewage.
(b) "Service-Safety Director" or "Director" means the Service-Safety Director of the City or his authorized deputy, agent or representative.
(c) "Public sewer" means a sewer in which all owners of abutting properties have equal rights and which is controlled by public authority.
(d) "Combined sewer" means a sewer receiving both surface runoff and sewage.
(e) "Sanitary sewer" means a sewer which carries sewage and wastes and to which storm, surface, and ground waters are not intentionally admitted.
(f) "Storm sewer" or "storm drain" means a sewer which carries storm and surface waters and drainage, but does not carry sewage and polluted industrial wastes.
(g) "Sewage treatment plant" or "water pollution control center" means any arrangement of devices and structures used for treating sewage.
(h) "Garbage" means solid wastes from the preparation, cooking and dispensing of food and from the handling, storage, and sale of produce.
(i) "Properly shredded garbage" means the wastes from the preparation, cooking and dispensing of food that have been shredded to such a degree that all particles will be carried freely under the flow conditions normally prevailing in public sewers, with no particle greater than one-half inch in any dimension.
(j) "Building drain" means that part of the lowest horizontal piping of a drainage system which receives the discharge from soil, waste, and other drainage pipes inside the walls of the building and conveys it to the building sewer, beginning five feet outside the inner face of the building wall.
(k) "Building sewer" means the extension from the building drain to the public sewer or other place of disposal.
(1) "pH" means the logarithm of the reciprocal of the weight ofhydrogen ions in grams per liter of solution and indicating the acid or basis character of any solution.
(m) "Suspended solids" means solids that either float on the surface of, or are in suspension in, water, sewage, or other liquids and which are removable by laboratory filtering.
(n) "Natural outlet" means any outlet into a watercourse, pond, ditch, lake or other body of surface or ground water.
(o) "Watercourse" means a channel in which a flow of water occurs, either continuously or intermittently.
(p) "Person" means any individual, firm, company, association, society, corporation, or group.
(q) The word "shall" is mandatory; "may" is permissive.
(r) "City" see subsection (v), “Authority”.
(s) "City Engineer" means the City Engineer of the City.
(t) "Plumbing Inspector" means the Plumbing Inspector of the City as appointed by the Mayor and confirmed by Council.
(u) "Act" means The Clean Water Act (33 U.S.C. 1251 et seq.), as amended.
(v) "Authority" means the City of Bellefontaine, Ohio, acting through its duly authorized officials and employees.
(w) "Pretreatment" means the reduction of the amount of pollutants, the elimination of pollutants, or the alteration of the nature of pollutant properties in wastewater to a less harmful state prior to or in lieu of discharge or otherwise introducing such pollutants into a POTW. (Ord. 13-1. Passed 2-26-13.)
(x) “National Categorical Pretreatment Standards” or “Categorical Pretreatment Standard” or “Categorical Standard” means any regulation containing pollutant discharge limits promulgated by EPA in accordance with sections 307(b) and (c) of the Act (33 U.S.C. section 1317) that apply to a specific category of Users and that appear in 40 CFR Chapter I, Subchapter N, Parts 405-471.
(Ord. 19-82. Passed 12-10-19.)
(y) "Industrial Discharger" means a source of Indirect Discharge or Discharge of pollutants into a POTW from any nondomestic source regulated under Section 307(b), (c) or (d) of the Act.
(z) "Other wastes" means decayed wood, sawdust, shavings, bark, lime, refuse, ashes, garbage, offal, oil, tar, chemicals, and all other substances except sewage and industrial wastes.
(aa) "Sewage" means water-carried human wastes or a combination of water-carried wastes from residence, business buildings, institutions and industrial establishments, together with such ground, surface, storm or other waters as may be present.
(bb) "Industrial waste" means solid, liquid or gaseous waste resulting from any industrial, manufacturing, trade, or business process or from the development, recovery, or processing of natural resources.
(cc) "O and M" means Operation and Maintenance.
(Ord. 13-1. Passed 2-26-13.)
(dd) “Publicly Owned Treatment Works” or “POTW” means a treatment works, as defined by section 212 of the Act (33 U.S.C. section 1292), which is owned by the City. This definition includes any devices or systems used in the collection, storage, treatment, recycling, and reclamation of sewage or industrial wastes of a liquid nature and any conveyances, which convey wastewater to a treatment plant. (Ord. 19-82. Passed 12-10-19.)
(ee) "Wastewater" means industrial waste, or sewage or any other waste including that which may be combined with any groundwater, surface water, or storm water, that may be discharged to the POTW.
(ff) "NPDES" means National Pollutant Discharge Elimination System permit program as administered by the Ohio Environmental Protection Agency.
(gg) "Interference" means a Discharge, which, alone or in conjunction with a discharge or discharges from other sources, both:
(1) Inhibits or disrupts the POTW, its treatment processes or operations, or its sludge processes, use or disposal; and
(2) Therefore is a cause of a violation of any requirement of the POTW's NPDES permit (including an increase in the magnitude or duration of a violation).
(hh) "Sewer" means any pipe, conduit, ditch, or other device used to collect and transport sewage or storm water from the generating source.
(ii) "New Source" means any building, structure, facility or installation from which there is or may be a discharge of pollutants, the construction of which commenced after the publication of proposed Pretreatment Standards under Section 307(C) of the Act which will be applicable to such source if such standards are thereafter promulgated in accordance with that section. This source may be at a new site, total replacement of a previous process or production equipment at an existing source, or new wastewater generation processes independent of an existing source at the same site.
(Ord. 13-1. Passed 2-26-13.)
(jj) “Slug Load” or “Slug Discharge” means any discharge at a flow rate or concentration, which could cause a violation of the prohibited discharge standards in Section 925.05 of this ordinance. A Slug Discharge is any Discharge of a non-routine, episodic nature, including but not limited to an accidental spill or a non-customary batch Discharge, which has a reasonable potential to cause interference or Pass Through, or in any other way violate the POTW’s regulations, Local Limits or Permit conditions. (Ord. 19-82. Passed 12-10-19.)
(kk) "Pass Through" means a Discharge which exits the POTW into waters of the United State in quantities or concentrations which, along or in conjunction with a discharge or discharges from other sources, is a cause of a violation of any requirement of the POTW's NPDES permit (including an increase in the magnitude or duration of a violation).
(ll) "Significant Industrial User" means:
(1) Except as provided in subsection (ll)(2) hereof, the term Significant Industrial User includes:
A. All industrial users subject to categorical pretreatment standards; and
B. Any other industrial user that: discharges an average of 25,000 gallons per day or more or process wastewater to the POTW; contributes a process wastestream which makes up five percent (5%) or more of the average dry weather hydraulic or organic capacity of the POTW treatment plant; or has a reasonable potential in the opinion of the Director, to adversely affect the POTW's operation or for violating any pretreatment standard or requirement.
(2) The Director may at any time, on its own initiative or in response to a petition received from an industrial user, determine that a noncategorical industrial user is not a Significant Industrial User if the industrial user has no reasonable potential to adversely affect the POTW's operation or for violating any pretreatment standard or requirement.
(mm) Best Management Practices or BMPs means schedules of activities, prohibitions of practices, maintenance procedures, and other management practices to implement the prohibitions listed in OAC 3745-3-04. BMPs also include treatment requirements, operating procedures, and practices to control plan site runoff, spillage or leaks, sludge or waste disposal, or drainage from raw materials storage.
(Ord. 13-1. Passed 2-26-13.)
(oo) “Authorized or Duly Authorized Representative of the User” means:
(1) If the User is a corporation:
A. The president, secretary, treasurer, or a vice-president of the corporation in charge of a principal business function, or any other person who performs similar policy or decision-making functions for the corporation; or
B. The manager of one or more manufacturing, production, or operating facilities, provided the manager is authorized to make management decisions that govern the operation of the regulated facility including having the explicit or implicit duty of making major capital investment recommendations, and initiate and direct other comprehensive measures to assure long-term environmental compliance with environmental laws and regulations; can ensure that the necessary systems are established or actions taken to gather complete and accurate information for individual wastewater discharge permit requirements; and where authority to sign documents has been assigned or delegated to the manager in accordance with corporate procedures.
(2) If the User is a partnership or sole proprietorship; a general partner or proprietor, respectively.
(3) If the User is a Federal, State, or local governmental facility; a director or highest official appointed or designated to oversee the operation and performance of the activities of the government facility, or their designee.
(4) The individuals described in paragraphs (1) through (3), above, may designate a Duly Authorized Representative if the authorization is in writing, the authorization specifies the individual or position responsible for the overall operation of the facility from which the discharge originates or having overall responsibility for environmental matters for the company, and the written authorization is submitted to the City.
(pp) “Pretreatment Standards” or “Standards” means prohibited discharge standards, categorical Pretreatment Standards, and Local Limits.
(qq) “Pretreatment Requirements” means any substantive or procedural requirements related to pretreatment imposed on a User, other than a Pretreatment Standard.
(Ord. 19-82. Passed 12-10-19.)