For the purpose of this chapter the following definitions shall apply unless the context clearly indicates or requires a different meaning.
ACT. The Clean Water Act (33 U.S.C. 1251 et seq.), as amended, Public Law 92-500, and any amendments thereto; as well as any guidelines, limitations, and standards promulgated by the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency pursuant to the Act.
BEST MANAGEMENT PRACTICES (BMPs). Schedules of activities maintenance procedures, and other management practices to implement the prohibitions listed in O.A.C. 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.
BOD (Biochemical Oxygen Demand). The quantity of oxygen utilized in the biochemical oxidation of organic matter under standard laboratory procedure as outlined in the Environmental Protection Agency's "Guidelines Establishing Test Procedures for Analysis of Pollutants" (Ref. 40 CFR 136 and amendments thereto), in five days at 20° C., expressed in parts per million by weight.
BYPASS. The intentional diversion of waste-streams from any portion of an industrial user's treatment facility.
CATEGORICAL PRETREATMENT STANDARDS. The National Pretreatment Standards specifying quantities or concentrations of pollutants or pollutant properties which may be discharged or introduced into the sewage treatment works by specific industrial users.
CHEMICAL OXYGEN DEMAND (COD). The quantity of oxygen utilized in the chemical oxidation of organic matter under standard laboratory procedures expressed in milligrams per liter.
CITY ENGINEER. The City Engineer of the City of Cambridge, Ohio.
COMPATIBLE POLLUTANT. Biochemical oxygen demand, suspended solids, pH, and fecal coliform bacteria, plus additional pollutants identified in the city's National Pollutant Discharge Elimination System (NPDES) permit, provided the city's sewage treatment plant is designed to treat the pollutants, and in fact does remove the pollutants to a substantial degree.
COOLING WATER or INDUSTRIAL COOLING WATER. The unpolluted water discharged from any system of condensation, air conditioning, cooling, refrigeration, or other similar use which meets the criteria established by the OEPA for effluents discharged to watercourses at Cambridge, Ohio.
DIRECTOR OF PUBLIC SERVICE or DIRECTOR. The Director of Utilities.
DWELLING UNIT. Any room, group of rooms, house trailer, or other enclosure occupied or intended for occupancy as separate living quarters by a family or other groups of persons living together or by persons living alone, shall be classified as a DWELLING UNIT. Each dwelling in a double house, in a row of connecting houses, or in an apartment shall be billed as a separate entity. This shall not include hotels, motels, hospitals, nursing homes, and sleeping rooms.
(1) In trailer parks,
DWELLING UNITS shall include each space for which water is available, whether or not occupied.
(2)
MULTIPLE DWELLING UNITS. Those in which more than one dwelling unit is served by one meter.
(3)
SLEEPING ROOMS. Rooms without separate kitchen or bathroom facilities.
FLOATABLE OIL. Oil, fat, or grease in a physical state such that it will separate by gravity from wastewater by treatment in an approved pretreatment facility.
GARBAGE. Solid wastes from the preparation, cooking, or dispensing of food, and from the handling, storage, and sale of produce.
INCOMPATIBLE POLLUTANT. Any pollutant which is not a compatible pollutant as defined above.
INDIRECT DISCHARGE. The discharge or the introduction of nondomestic pollutants from a source regulated under the Act into the sewage treatment works.
INDIVIDUAL OR PRIVATE SEWAGE DISPOSAL SYSTEM. An independent sewage disposal system found to be adequate and approved by the Health Department.
INDUSTRIAL WASTES. The liquid wastes resulting from commercial, manufacturing, or industrial operations or processes as distinct from sanitary sewage or wastes.
INTERCEPTOR. A device designed and installed so as to separate or retain deleterious, hazardous, or undesirable matter from normal sewage, and permits normal wastewater to discharge into the disposal terminal by gravity.
INTERFERENCE. A discharge which alone or in conjunction with a discharge or discharges from other sources inhibits or disrupts the POTW, its treatment processes, operations or sludge processes, use or disposal, and therefore causes or contributes to the cause of a violation of any of the POTW's NPDES permit, or prevents sewage sludge use or disposal in compliance with the Act; the Solid Waste Disposal Act, the Clean Air Act, and the Toxic Substances and Control Act, or state regulations in any state sludge management plan.
NATURAL OUTLET. Any outlet into a watercourse, pond, ditch, lake, or other body of surface or ground water.
NEW SOURCE. Any building, structure, facility or installation from which there is or may be a discharge of pollutants, whose construction began after the publication of proposed pretreatment standards under Section 307(C) of the Act, provided:
(1) The building, structure, facility or installation is constructed at a site on which no other source is located; or
(2) The building, structure, facility or installation totally replaces the process or production equipment that causes the discharge of pollutants at an existing source; or
(3) The production or wastewater generating processes of the building, structure, facility or installation are substantially independent of an existing source at the same site.
Construction on a site at which an existing source is located shall be considered a modification if the construction does not create a new building, structure, facility or installation which meets the criteria of a new source, but otherwise alters, replaces or adds to existing process or production equipment.
NORMAL STRENGTH SEWAGE OR WASTES. As defined for the purpose of determining surcharge, NORMAL STRENGTH SEWAGE OR WASTES shall mean sewage having an average daily suspended solids concentration of not more than 250 mg/l, an average daily BOD concentration of not more than 300 mg/l, and not containing any of the characteristics in excess of the limitations as prohibited and established by §§ 50.022 and 50.023.
NPDES PERMIT. The National Pollutant Discharge Elimination System permit issued to the City wastewater treatment plant by the Ohio EPA.
OHIO EPA. The Ohio Environmental Protection Agency.
OPERATION AND MAINTENANCE COST. All expenses of collecting, pumping, treating, and disposing of wastewater including equipment replacement costs.
PASS THROUGH. A discharge of the POTW into waters of the State in quantities or concentrations which alone or in conjunction with a discharge or discharges from other sources causes or contributes to the cause of a violation of any requirement of the POTW's NPDES permit, including an increase in the magnitude or duration of a violation.
PERSON. Any individual, firm, company, association, society, corporation, or group.
pH. The logarithm of the reciprocal of the weight of hydrogen ions in grams per liter of pollution.
POLLUTANT. Dredge spoil, solid waste, incinerator residue, wastewater, garbage, wastewater sludge, munitions, wrecked or discarded equipment, rock and cellar dirt, and industrial, municipal, and agricultural waste discharged into water.
POTW. Publicly owned treatment works.
ppm. Parts per million by weight or milligrams per liter (mg/l).
PRETREATMENT. 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 discharging or otherwise introducing such pollutants it to the sewage treatment works.
PROPERLY SHREDDED GARBAGE. The wastes from the preparation, cooking, and dispensing of food that have been shredded to such degree that all particles will be carried freely under the flow conditions normally prevailing in public sanitary sewers, with no particle greater than one-half inch in any dimension.
PUBLIC SEWER. A sewer in which all owners of abutting properties have equal rights, and is owned or controlled by the city.
RESPONSIBLE CORPORATE OFFICIAL. President, secretary, treasurer, or vice president in charge of the principal business function, or any other person who is authorized to make management decisions that govern the operation of the regulated facility, including having the explicit or implicit duty of making capital investment recommendations, and of initiating and directing other comprehensive measures, to assure long-term environmental compliance with
environmental laws and regulations. Also, the individual must be responsible for ensuring that the necessary systems are established or that the necessary actions are taken to gather complete and accurate information for control mechanism requirements, and must be assigned or delegated, in writing, the authority to sign documents according to corporate procedure, or by a general partner or proprietor if the industrial user submitting the reports is a partnership, or sole proprietorship respectively.
SANITARY SEWAGE. The waste from water closets, urinals, lavatories, sinks, bathtubs, showers, household laundries, cellar floor drains, bars, soda fountains, cuspidors, refrigerator drips, drinking fountains, stable floor drains, and garage floor drains (excepting wash racks).
SANITARY SEWER. A sewer which carries sewage and wastes and to which storm, surface, and ground waters are not intentionally admitted.
SERVICE AREA. The entire area served by the city sewage treatment works within and without its corporate limits.
SEWAGE Synonymous with WASTEWATER. The spent water of a community. From the standpoint of source, it 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.
SEWAGE TREATMENT PLANT. Any arrangement of devices and structures used for treating sewage.
SEWAGE TREATMENT WORKS. All facilities for collecting, pumping, treating, and disposing of sewage.
SEWER. A pipe or conduit for carrying sewage.
SIC MANUAL. The Standard Industrial Classification Manual, 1972, Office of Management and Budget, as amended and supplemented.
SIGNIFICANT INDUSTRIAL USER. Any industrial user of the POTW who:
(1) Is subject to categorical pretreatment standards;
(2) Discharges an average of 25,000 gallons per day or more of process wastewater excluding sanitary, non-contact cooling and boiler blowdown wastewaters;
(3) Contributes a process wastewater which makes up five percent (5%) or more of the average dry weather hydraulic or organic capacity of the wastewater treatment plant; or
(4) In the opinion of the Director, has the potential to adversely affect the POTW operation or has the potential to violate any pretreatment standard or requirement.
The Director may, in response to a written request from an industrial user, determine that a noncategorical industrial user is not a significant industrial user if that user has no reasonable potential to adversely affect the POTW operation or to violate any pretreatment standard or requirement.
SLUG or SLUG LOAD. Any pollutant, including oxygen-demanding pollutants (for example, BOD), released in a discharge at a flow rate and/or pollutant concentration which will cause interference at the POTW.
SPECIFICATIONS FOR MATERIALS. Standards of specifications identified by the following abbreviations.
(1)
ANSI. American standards approved by the American National Standards Institute, Inc. 1430 Broadway, New York, New York 10018.
(2)
ASTM. Standards and tentative standards published by the American Society for Testing of Materials, P.O. Box 7510, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania 19101.
(3)
CS. Commercial standards representing recorded voluntary recommendations of the trade, issued by the United States Department of Commerce and obtainable from the Superintendent of Documents, Government Printing Office, Washington, D.C. 20234.
STORM SEWER or STORM DRAIN. A sewer which carries storm and surface waters and drainage, but excludes sewage and polluted industrial wastes.
STORMWATER RUNOFF. That portion of the rainfall that is drained into the sewers.
SUPERINTENDENT. The Superintendent of Sewage Works of the city, or his authorized deputy, agent, or representative.
SURCHARGE. The fee in addition to the service charge which is levied on those persons whose wastes are greater in strength than the concentration values established or representative of normal sewage.
SUSPENDED SOLIDS. Total suspended matter that either floats on the surface of, or is in suspension in, water, wastewater, or other liquids, and that is removable by laboratory filtering, and is referred to as nonfilterable residue.
TOXIC POLLUTANTS. Includes but is not necessarily limited to aldrindieldrin, benzidine, cadmium, cyanide, DDT-endrin, mercury, polychlorinated biphenyls (PCBs) and toxaphene. Pollutants included as TOXIC shall be those promulgated as such by the USEPA.
UNPOLLUTED WATER. Water of quality equal to or better than the effluent criteria in effect or water that would not cause violation of receiving water quality standards and would not be benefitted by discharge to the sanitary sewers and sewage treatment facilities provided.
UPSET. An exceptional incident in which a user unintentionally and temporarily is in a state of noncompliance with the standards set forth in this chapter due to factors beyond the reasonable control of the user and excluding noncompliance to the extent caused by operational error, improperly designed treatment facilities, inadequate treatment facilities, lack of preventive maintenance, or careless or improper operation thereof.
USEPA. The United States Environmental Protection Agency.
USER CLASS. The division of users within the city service area, by the origin of the sewage discharged and by the similarity of the function of such users. Stated in three general classes, they are as follows.
(1)
INDUSTRIAL USER. A person who discharges to the city sewage treatment works industrial wastes as defined herein.
(2)
LARGE CONSUMER. A user of an average of one million gallons per month or more.
(3)
NONINDUSTRIAL USER. Single-family or equivalent residences and other persons which discharge only segregated domestic wastes from sanitary convenience to the city wastewater treatment plant.
USPHS. The United States Public Health Service.
WATERCOURSE. A channel in which a flow of water occurs, either continuously or intermittently.
(Ord. 64-92, passed 8-10-92; Am. Ord. 20-13, passed 3-25-13)