(A) For the purpose of this chapter, the following definitions shall apply unless the context clearly indicates or requires a different meaning.
(B) Terms not otherwise defined in this section shall be as adopted in the latest edition of Standard Methods for the Examination of Water and Wastewater, published by the American Public Health Association, the American Water Works Association and the Water Pollution Control Federation and as in the Wastewater Treatment Plant Design Manual of Practice published by the Water Pollution Control Federation.
APPROVAL AUTHORITY. The South Carolina Department of Health and Environmental Control (SCDHEC).
AUTHORIZED or DULY AUTHORIZED REPRESENTATIVE OF THE USER.
(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 or general 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 divisions (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.
BIOCHEMICAL OXYGEN DEMAND or BOD. The quantity of oxygen utilized in the biochemical oxidation of organic matter under standard laboratory procedures in five days at 20°C, expressed in terms of weight and concentration (milligrams per liter or ppm).
BEST MANAGEMENT PRACTICES or BMPs. Schedules of activities, prohibitions of practices, maintenance procedures, and other management practices to implement the prohibitions listed in § 56.19(A) and (B) [SC R.61-9.403.5(a)(1) and (b)]. BMPs 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.
CATEGORICAL INDUSTRIAL USER. An industrial user subject to a categorical pretreatment standard or categorical standard.
CATEGORICAL PRETREATMENT STANDARD. Any regulation containing pollutant discharge limits promulgated by EPA in accordance with sections 307(b) and (c) of the Clean Water 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.
CITY. The City of Bennettsville, the City Administrator, his designee or other designated representative of City Council, who is charged with certain duties and responsibilities by this chapter.
CLEAN WATER ACT or ACT. The federal Water Pollution Control Act, being 33 USC 1251 et seq., Amendments of 1972, Public Law 92-500, or as they may be amended.
COLOR. The "true color" due to substances in solution which cause any variation in the hue of the receiving stream and which is expressed, in parts per million.
COMBINED SEWER. A sewer receiving both surface run-off and sewage.
CONTROL AUTHORITY. The City of Bennettsville.
DAILY MAXIMUM. The arithmetic average of all effluent samples for a pollutant collected during a calendar day.
DAILY MAXIMUM LIMIT. The maximum allowable discharge limit of a pollutant during a calendar day. Where DAILY MAXIMUM LIMITS are expressed in units of mass, the daily discharge is the total mass discharged over the course of the day. Where DAILY MAXIMUM LIMITS are expressed in terms of a concentration, the daily discharge is the arithmetic average measurement of the pollutant concentration derived from all measurements taken that day.
DOMESTIC WASTE. Liquid wastes from non-commercial preparation, cooking and handling of food, or containing human excrement and similar matter from the sanitary conveniences of dwellings, commercial buildings, industrial facilities and institutions.
EPA. The United States Environmental Protection Agency.
EXISTING SOURCE. Any source of discharge that is not a NEW SOURCE.
GARBAGE. Solid wastes from the domestic and commercial preparation, cooking and dispensing of food and from the handling, storage and sale of produce.
GARBAGE, PROPERLY SHREDDED. The wastes from the preparation, cooking and dispensing of food which has been shredded to a degree that all particles will be carried freely under the flow conditions normally prevailing in public sewers. No particle shall be greater than one-half inch in any dimension.
GRAB SAMPLE. A sample that is taken from a wastestream without regard to the flow in the wastestream and over a period of time not to exceed 15 minutes.
HEARING AUTHORITY. The City Administrator, City Attorney, Director of Utilities and the Wastewater Treatment Superintendent or duly appointed deputies, agents or representatives thereof.
INDIRECT DISCHARGE. The introduction of pollutants into the POTW from any nondomestic source.
INSTANTANEOUS LIMIT. The maximum concentration of a pollutant allowed to be discharged at any time, determined from the analysis of any discrete or composited sample collected, independent of the industrial flow rate and the duration of the sampling event.
INTERFERENCE. The inhibition or disruption of the city's wastewater treatment processes or operations which contributes to a violation of any requirement of the city's NPDES permit or any applicable state or federal regulations or which results in a decrease of removal efficiency. The term includes the prevention of the use or disposal of sewage sludge and other wastewater treatment by-products.
LOCAL LIMIT. Specific discharge limits developed and enforced by the city upon industrial or commercial facilities to implement the general and specific discharge prohibitions listed in 40 CFR 403.5(a)(1) and (b).
MAY. The act is permissive.
MEDICAL WASTE. Isolation wastes, infectious agents, human blood and blood products, pathological wastes, sharps, body parts, contaminated bedding, surgical wastes, potentially contaminated laboratory wastes, and dialysis wastes.
MONTHLY AVERAGE. The sum of all daily discharges measured during a calendar month divided by the number of daily discharges measured during that month.
MONTHLY AVERAGE LIMIT. The highest allowable average of daily discharges over a calendar month, calculated as the sum of all daily discharges measured during a calendar month divided by the number of daily discharges measured during that month.
NEW SOURCE.
(1) 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 that will be applicable to such source 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 substantially independent of an existing source at the same site. In determining whether these are substantially independent, factors such as the extent to which the new facility is integrated with the existing plant, and the extent to which the new facility is engaged in the same general type of activity as the existing source, should be considered.
(2) Construction on a site at which an existing source is located results in a modification rather than a new source if the construction does not create a new building, structure, facility, or installation meeting the criteria of division (1)(b) or (c) above but otherwise alters, replaces, or adds to existing process or production equipment.
(3) Construction of a new source as defined under this division has commenced if the owner or operator has:
(a) Begun, or caused to begin, as part of a continuous onsite construction program:
1. Any placement, assembly, or installation of facilities or equipment; or
2. Significant site preparation work including clearing, excavation, or removal of existing buildings, structures, or facilities which is necessary for the placement, assembly, or installation of new source facilities or equipment; or
(b) Entered into a binding contractual obligation for the purchase of facilities or equipment which are intended to be used in its operation within a reasonable time. Options to purchase or contracts which can be terminated or modified without substantial loss, and contracts for feasibility, engineering, and design studies do not constitute a contractual obligation under this division.
NH3 or NITROGEN AS AMMONIA. The initial product in the decomposition of nitrogenous organic matter as measured by using standard laboratory methods, as set out in this chapter, expressed in mg/l or ppm.
NONCONTACT COOLING WATER. Water used for cooling that does not come into direct contact with any raw material, intermediate product, waste product, or finished product.
NONDOMESTIC WASTES. The liquid wastes from processes employed in institutional, commercial and industrial processes and operations, as distinct from sanitary or domestic sewage.
NPDES PERMIT. The national pollution discharge elimination system permit issued to the city pursuant to Section 402 of the Clean Water Act, being 33 USC 1342.
PASS THROUGH. A discharge which exits the POTW into waters of the United States 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's NPDES permit, including an increase in the magnitude or duration of a violation.
pH. The logarithm (base 10) of the reciprocal of the weight of hydrogen ions in grams per liter of solution and indicating the acidity or alkalinity of a substance. A pH value of 7.0 is considered neutral, below 7.0 is acid; above 7.0 is alkaline.
PPM. Parts per million by weight.
PERSON. Any individual, partnership, copartnership, firm, company, corporation, association, joint stock company, trust, estate, governmental entity, or any other legal entity; or their legal representatives, agents, or assigns. This definition includes all federal, state, and local governmental entities.
POLLUTANT. Dredged spoil, solid waste, incinerator residue, filter backwash, sewage, garbage, sewage sludge, munitions, medical wastes, chemical wastes, biological materials, radioactive materials, heat, wrecked or discarded equipment, rock, sand, cellar dirt, municipal, agricultural and industrial wastes, and certain characteristics of wastewater (e.g., pH, temperature, TSS, turbidity, color, BOD, COD, toxicity, or odor).
PRETREATMENT. The reduction of the amount of pollutants, the elimination of pollutants, or the alteration of the nature of pollutant properties in wastewater prior to, or in lieu of, introducing such pollutants into the POTW. This reduction or alteration can be obtained by physical, chemical, or biological processes; by process changes; or by other means, except by diluting the concentration of the pollutants unless allowed by an applicable pretreatment standard.
PRETREATMENT REQUIREMENTS. Any substantive or procedural requirement related to pretreatment imposed on a user, other than a pretreatment standard.
PRETREATMENT STANDARDS or STANDARDS. Pretreatment standards shall mean prohibited discharge standards, categorical pretreatment standards, and local limits.
PROHIBITED DISCHARGE STANDARDS or PROHIBITED DISCHARGES. Absolute prohibitions against the discharge of certain substances; these prohibitions appear in § 56.19.
PUBLICLY OWNED TREATMENT WORKS or POTW. 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.
RECEIVING STREAM. A body of water, stream or watercourse receiving or formed by the discharge from the wastewater treatment plant.
SANITARY SEWER. A sewer intended to receive domestic sewage and industrial waste, except that of type expressly prohibited by this division, and to which storm, surface and ground waters are not intentionally admitted.
SEPTAGE WASTE. Any sewage from holding tanks such as vessels, chemical toilets, campers, trailers, privies, cesspools and septic tanks.
SEWER. A pipe or conduit for carrying sewage.
SEWER SYSTEM. Any arrangement, devices, facilities, structures, equipment or works owned by the city for the purpose of transmitting domestic and nondomestic wastewater.
SHALL. The act is mandatory.
SIGNIFICANT INDUSTRIAL USER. Except as provided in divisions (3) and (4) below, a SIGNIFICANT INDUSTRIAL USER is:
(1) An industrial user subject to categorical pretreatment standards; or
(2) An industrial user that:
(a) Discharges an average of 25,000 gpd or more of process wastewater to the POTW (excluding sanitary, noncontact cooling and boiler blowdown wastewater);
(b) Contributes a process wastestream which makes up 5% or more of the average dry weather hydraulic or organic capacity of the POTW treatment plant; or
(c) Is designated as such by the city on the basis that it has a reasonable potential for adversely affecting the POTW's operation or for violating any pretreatment standard or requirement.
(3) The city, at its discretion may determine that an industrial user subject to categorical pretreatment standards is a non-significant categorical industrial user rather than a significant industrial user on a finding that the industrial user never discharges more than 100 gallons per day (gpd) of total categorical wastewater (excluding sanitary, non-contact cooling and boiler blowdown wastewater, unless specifically included in the pretreatment standard) and the following conditions are met:
(a) The industrial user, prior to city's finding, has consistently complied with all applicable categorical pretreatment standards and requirements;
(b) The industrial user annually submits the certification statement required in § 56.42(I)(2) [see SC R.61-9.403.12(q)], together with any additional information necessary to support the certification statement; and
(c) The industrial user never discharges any untreated concentrated wastewater.
(4) Upon a finding that a user meeting the criteria in division (2) above has no reasonable potential for adversely affecting the POTW's operation or for violating any pretreatment standard or requirement, the city may at any time, on its own initiative or in response to a petition received from an industrial user, and in accordance with procedures in SC R.61-9.403.8(f)(6), determine that such user should not be considered a significant industrial user.
SLUG LOAD or SLUG DISCHARGE. Any discharge at a flow rate or concentration, which could cause a violation of the prohibited discharge standards in § 56.19. 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.
STORM SEWER or STORM DRAIN. A sewer which carries storm and surface waters and drainage, but excludes sewage and polluted industrial wastes.
STORM WATER. Any flow occurring during or following any form of natural precipitation, and resulting from such precipitation, including snowmelt.
TOTAL SOLIDS. The sum of suspended matter, settleable matter and dissolved matter, both volatile and nonvolatile and as further defined in Standard Methods.
TOTAL SUSPENDED SOLIDS, SUSPENDED SOLIDS or TSS. The total suspended matter that floats on the surface of, or is suspended in, water, wastewater, or other liquid, and that is removable by laboratory filtering.
USER or INDUSTRIAL USER. A source of indirect discharge.
WASTEWATER. A combination of liquid and water-carried industrial and domestic wastes from dwellings, residences, commercial, buildings, institutions and industrial establishments, whether treated or untreated, together with any ground, surface and storm water that may be present which is discharged into or permitted to enter the city's wastewater treatment systems.
WASTEWATER TREATMENT PLANT or TREATMENT PLANT. Any arrangement, devices, facilities, structures, equipment or works owned by the city for the purpose of disposal, storage, treatment, recycling and reclamation of industrial and domestic wastes, including the wastewater treatment site or land that is used for the ultimate disposal of residues from the treatment.
WASTEWATER TREATMENT SYSTEM. The entire sewer system and the entire wastewater treatment plant(s).
(Ord. 16-04-001, passed 4-19-16)