Unless the context specifically indicates otherwise, the meaning of terms used in this chapter shall be as follows:
(1) “A.S.T.M." means the American Society for Testing Materials, latest publication.
(1.1) "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 plant site runoff, spillage or leaks, sludge or waste disposal, or drainage from raw materials storage-
(2) “BOD” (denoting Biochemical Oxygen Demand) means the quantity of oxygen utilized in the biochemical oxidation of organic matter under standard laboratory procedure in five days at twenty degrees centigrade, expressed in milligrams per liter.
(3) “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 (1.5 meters) outside the inner face of the building wall.
(4) “Building sewer” means the extension from the building drain to the public sewer or other place of disposal.
(5) “Bypass” means an intentional diversion of wastestreams from any portion of the City Water Pollution Control Facility or any industrial user's treatment or pretreatment facility.
(6) “City” means the City of Bellevue, Ohio.
(7) “City Engineer” means the Safety-Service Director or his authorized representative.
(8) “Combined sewer” means a sewer receiving both surface runoff and sewage.
(9) “Compatible pollutants” means BOD, suspended solids, pH and fecal coliform bacteria, plus additional pollutants identified in the NPDES permit if the Water Pollution Control Center was designed to treat such pollutants and in fact does remove such pollutants to a substantial degree.
(10) “COD” or “chemical oxygen demand” means the quantity of oxygen utilized in the chemical oxidation of organic matter under standard laboratory procedures, expressed in milligrams per liter.
(11) “Cooling water” means the water discharged from any system of condensation, air conditioning cooling, refrigeration or other, but which shall be free from odor and oil. It shall contain no polluting substances which would produce BOD or suspended solids each in excess of ten parts per million by weight.
(12) “Debt service” means the funds used for the retirement of an interest on bonds and/or notes authorized and issued by the City to construct sewage facilities.
(13) “Degree of treatability” means the extent that wastewater may be treated using conventional biological, chemical and physical wastewater treatment processes.
(14) “Director” means the Safety-Service Director or his duly authorized agent or representative.
(15) “Engineer” means the Engineer for the City or his authorized representative.
(16) "Federal Act” means the Federal Water Pollution Control Act Amendments of 1977 and any amendments thereto, as well as any guidelines, limitations and standards promulgated by the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency pursuant to such Acts.
(17) “Garbage” means the animal and vegetable waste resulting from the handling, preparation, cooking and serving of food.
(18) “Industrial discharge of the industrial user” means a source of indirect discharge.
(19) “Indirect discharge” means the introduction of pollutants to the City Water Pollution Control Center from any nondomestic source regulated under Section 307(b), (c) or (d) of the Federal Act.
(20) “Industrial waste” means the wastes resulting from any commercial, manufacturing or industrial operations or processes.
(21) “Interference” means a discharge which alone or in conjunction with a discharge or discharges from other sources both:
A. Inhibits or disrupts the City sewage system and/or the Water Pollution Control Center, its treatment processes or operations, or its sludge processes' use, recycling or disposal and;
B. Therefore is a cause of a violation of any requirement of the City's NPDES permit (including an increase in the magnitude or duration of the violation) or the prevention of sewage sludge recycling or disposal in compliance with the following statutory provisions and regulations or permits issued thereunder (or more stringent state or City regulations): Section 405 of the Clean Water Act, the Solid Waste Disposal Act (SWDA) and including state regulations contained in any state sludge management plans prepared pursuant to Subtitle D of the SWDA, the Clean Air Act, the Toxic Substance Control Act and the Marine Protection, Research and Sanctuaries Act.
(22) “May” is permissive and “shall” is mandatory.
(23) “National prohibitive discharge standard” or “prohibitive discharge” means any regulation developed under the authority of Section 307(b) of the Act and 40 CFR, Section 403.5.
(24) “Natural outlet” means any outlet into a watercourse, pond, ditch, lake or other body of surface or groundwater.
(25) “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 sources if such standards are thereafter promulgated in accordance with that section provided that:
A. The building, structure, facility or installation is constructed at a site at which no other source is located, or;
B. The building, structure, facility or installation totally replaces the process or production equipment that causes the discharge of pollutants at an existing source, or;
C. The production or wastewater generating processes of the building, structure, facility or installation are subsequently independent of an existing source at the same site.
(26) "Normal sewage” means sewage which when analyzed, shows, by weight, a daily average of not more than 200 parts per million (ppm) of suspended solids; nor more than 210 parts per million of BOD5; nor more than 21 parts per million ammonia nitrogen; nor more than 15 parts per million phosphorus. These concentrations and any others as deemed appropriate by the Director will be used for determining surcharges. (On or before March 1 of each year parameters and concentrations will be reviewed and revised as determined appropriate by the Director.)
(27) “NPDES” means the National Pollutant Discharge Elimination System.
(28) “Operation and Maintenance Cost” means the costs incurred in the act of keeping all facilities for collection, pumping, treating and disposing of sewage, in a good state of repair and functioning properly, including the replacement of such facilities when necessary.
(29) “Pass through” means a discharge which exits the City Water Pollution Control Center into the waters of Snyder's Ditch in quantities or concentrations which, alone or in conjunction with a discharge or discharges from other sources is a cause of a violation of any requirement of the City NPDES permit (including an increase in the magnitude or duration of a violation).
(30) “Permit” means the permission by the City for residences, apartments, hotels, motels, business buildings or properties, institutions and industrial establishments to connect to the Municipal waterworks distribution system.
(31) “Person” means any individual, firm, company, association, society, corporation or group.
(32) “pH” means the logarithm of the reciprocal of the weight of hydrogen ions in grams per liter of solution.
(33) “Phosphorus” means the total phosphorus content of a sample referred to in “Standard Methods for Examination of Water and Wastewater” as total phosphorus.
(34) “Pollutant” means dredged soil, solid waste, wastewater, garbage, wastewater sludge, munition, wrecked or discarded equipment, rock, sand or municipal and industrial waste discharged into water.
(34.1) "Pretreatment” means the treatment of wastewater from sources before introduction
into the sewage system.
(35) “Pretreatment standards” means any local limitation promulgated by the City or categorical pretreatment standard promulgated by the E.P.A. in accordance with Section 307(b) and (c) of the Act which applies to industrial or commercial users.
(36) “Properly shredded garbage” means the wastes from preparation, cooking, handling or dispensing of food that have been shredded to such a degree that all particles will be carried freely under flow conditions normally prevailing in the sewage system, with no particle greater than one-half inch (127 centimeters) in any dimension.
(37) “Public sewer” means a sewer in which all owners of abutting properties have equal rights, and is controlled by public authority.
(38) “Replacement” means expenditures for obtaining and installing equipment, accessories or appurtenances which are necessary during the useful life of the treatment works to maintain the capacity and performance for which such works were designed and constructed.
(39) “Safety-Service Director” means the duly appointed Director of Public Service of the City of Bellevue, Ohio.
(40) “Sanitary facilities” means any water closets, sinks or other drains located within a building.
(41) “Sanitary sewer” means a sewer which carries sewage and to which storm, surface and ground waters are not intentionally admitted.
(42) “Sewage” means a combination of the water-carried wastes from residences, business buildings, institutions and industrial establishments.
(43) “Sewage treatment plant” means any arrangement of devices and structures used for treating sewage.
(44) “Sewage system” means sewers, pumping stations, the Water Pollution Control Center and any and all appurtenances common to such systems.
(45) “Sewage works” means all facilities for collecting, pumping, treating and disposing of sewage.
(46) “Sewer” means a pipe or conduit for carrying sewage.
(47) “Sewer service charge” means the total charge levied against users of the sewage system for sewer service. The charge shall include user charges plus the cost of debt service.
(48) “Shall” is mandatory, “may” is permissive.
(49) “Significant industrial user (SIU)" means categorical industrial users and any noncategorical industrial user that discharges 25,000 gallons per day or more of process wastewater, contributes a process wastewater which makes up five percent (5%) or more of the average dry weather capacity of the City Water Pollution Control Center, or has a reasonable potential in the opinion of the Director, to adversely affect the City sewage system.
(50) “Significant noncompliance (SNC)" means:
A. Chronic violations of wastewater discharge limits, that is, those in which sixty-six percent (66%) or more of all of the measurements taken during a six-month period exceed (by any magnitude) the daily maximum limit or the average limit for the same pollutant parameter;
B. Technical Review Criteria (TRC) violations, defined as those in which thirty-three percent (33%) or more of all the measurements taken during a six-month period equal or exceed the product of the daily average maximum limit or the average limit times the applicable TRC (TRC = 1.4 for BOD, TSS, fats, oil and grease, and 1.2 for all other pollutants except pH);
C. Any other violation of a pretreatment effluent limit (daily maximum or longer term average that the Director believes has caused, alone or in combination with other discharges, interference or pass through (including endangering the health of the City WPCC personnel or the general public));
D. Any discharge of a pollutant that has caused imminent danger to human health, welfare or to the environment and has resulted in the Director's exercise of his/her emergency authority under 40 CFR 403.8(f)(1)(vi)(B) to halt or prevent such a discharge;
E. Violation, by ninety days or more after the schedule date, of a compliance schedule or enforcement order starting construction, completing construction or attaining final compliance;
F. Failure to provide required reports such as baseline monitoring reports or ninety-day compliance schedules within thirty days of the due date;
G. Failure to accurately report noncompliance; or
H. Any other violation or group of violations which the Director considers to be significant.
(51) “Slug” means any pollutant including oxygen demanding pollutants, (BOD, etc.) released in a discharge by a flow rate and/or pollutant concentration which will cause interference of the processes in the City sewage system.
(52) “Standard industrial classification (SIC)" means the classification pursuant to the Standard Industrial Classification Manual issued by the Executive Office of the President, Office of Management and Budget, 1972.
(53) "Storm drain” means a drain or sewer for conveying water, groundwater, subsurface water or unpolluted water from any source.
(54) “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.
(55) “Tap-in charges” means the fee to be collected by the City for the purpose and reasons as set forth in the preamble to this chapter for a connection to the water works system.
(56) “Toxic pollutant” means those promulgated as such by the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency.
(57) “Unpolluted water or waste” means any water or waste containing none of the following: free or emulsified grease or oil; acid or alkali substances imparting taste and odor or color in receiving waters; toxic or poisonous substances in suspension, colloidal state or solution; and noxious or odorous gases. It shall contain no more than 5,000 mg per liter by weight of dissolved solids, of which not more than 2,500 mg per liter shall be as chloride, with permissible volume subject to review by the City Engineer, and not more than 10 mg per liter each of suspended solids and BOD. The color shall not exceed 50 mg per liter.
(58) “Upset” means an exceptional incident in which there is unintentional and temporary noncompliance with categorical pretreatment standards or other industrial pretreatment limitations because of factors beyond the reasonable control of the industrial users.
(59) “User” means any person who contributes, causes or permits the contribution of wastewater into the City’s sewage system.
(60) “User charge” means the charge assessed users of the sewage system to recover the cost of operation, maintenance and replacement of the sewage collection and sewage treatment system, and the cost of rendering bills and collecting sewer service charges.
(61) “User classes” shall mean classes of sewer users, including residential, commercial, industrial and institutional/governmental.
A. “Commercial user” shall include retail or wholesale business establishments that discharge wastewater into the public wastewater treatment system, works, and facility.
B. “Industrial user” shall include users discharging waste resulting from manufacturing activities involving the mechanical or chemical transformation of materials or substance into other products. These activities occur in establishments usually described as plants, factories, or mills, and characteristically use power-driven machines and material handling.
C. “Institutional/Governmental user” shall include hospitals, nursing homes, schools, city, county, state, or federal buildings or facilities that discharge wastewater into the public wastewater treatment system, works, and facility.
D. “Residential user” shall mean a principal family residence or habitation classified as a single-family, multifamily, or apartment dwelling that discharges domestic sanitary wastewater having characteristics of “normal sewage," as defined herein.
(62) “Wastewater” or “sewage” means the spent water of a community, and may be a combination of the liquid and water-carried wastes from residences, commercial buildings, industrial plants and institutions, together with any groundwater, surface water and storm water that may be present.
(63) “Water” means potable water as carried and delivered through the municipal waterworks system.
(64) “Water connection” means the connection from the house water service to the local water lines or feeder mains.
(65) “Watercourse” means a channel in which a flow of water occurs, either continuously or intermittently.
(66) “Water Pollution Control Center (WPCC)" means all devices and systems used in the treatment, recycling and reclamation of municipal sewage or industrial waste of a liquid nature, or necessary to recycle water at the most economical cost, including site acquisition of the land used for ultimate recycling of residues (sludge) resulting from such a treatment for the City and its outlying sewer districts.
(Ord. 12-11. Passed 3-14-11.)