The words and terms used in this chapter and/or the City of Canton Storm Water Management Manual maintained by the City Engineering Department, unless otherwise expressly stated, shall have the following meanings:
(a) “Channel” means a natural or man-made open-water carrier, such as a swale, ditch or stream.
(b) “City Engineer” means the appointed Engineer of the City of Canton, designated and qualified employees of the City Engineering Department, or other designated representatives of the City Engineering Department.
(c) “City of Canton” means the governing entity of the City of Canton, its employees, designated representatives, boards or commissions.
(d) “City of Canton Storm Water Management Manual” means an engineering and/or project review document maintained by the City Engineering Department, containing policy, standards, applicability, criteria, requirements, recommendations and guidance deemed appropriate by the City Engineering Department to assist with compliance with the provisions of this chapter.
(e) “Construction Site Storm Water Quality Management” means the implementation of proper BMP’s on construction sites to control erosion and sediment and reduce pollutants in storm water runoff from the respective land.
(f) “Development” means a parcel or contiguous parcels owned by one person or persons, proposed to be operated as one development for commercial, industrial, residential, institutional or other applicable uses.
(g) “Ditch” means an open channel, either dug or natural, for the purpose of drainage conveyance or irrigation with intermittent flow.
(h) “Drainage” means the surface or subsurface conveyance of storm water runoff, excess surface water, or groundwater from land.
(i) “Erosion” means the process by which the land surface is worn away by the action of wind, water, ice, gravity or any combination of those forces.
(j) “Floatable Material” means in general, any foreign matter that may float or remain in water and includes, but is not limited to plastic, aluminum cans, wood products, bottles, and paper products.
(k) “Grading” means the process in which the topography of a site is altered, typically by earth-moving or filling activities.
(l) “Hazardous Material” means any material including any substance, waste, or combination thereof, which because of its quantity, concentration, or physical, chemical or infectious characteristics may cause, or significantly contribute to, a substantial present or potential hazard to human health, safety, property or the environment when improperly treated, stored, transported, disposed of, or otherwise managed.
(m) “Illicit Discharge”, as defined at 40 C.F.R. 122.26(b)(2), means any discharge to an MS4 that is not composed entirely of storm water, except for those discharges to an MS4 pursuant to a National Pollutant Discharge Elimination System (NPDES) permit or otherwise listed or referenced in this chapter.
(n) “Illegal Connection” means any drain or conveyance, whether on the surface or subsurface, that allows an illicit discharge to enter the MS4.
(o) “Illicit” means not legally permitted or authorized; unlicensed; unlawful.
(p) “Imperviousness” means the resistance or inability of a surface to effectively absorb or infiltrate water. Types of impervious surfaces may include roads, streets, parking lots, rooftops, sidewalks, and other areas not covered by vegetation.
(q) “Intermittent Flow” means flow that occurs temporarily; flow that is not constant.
(r) “Municipal Separate Storm Sewer System (MS4)” means a publicly-owned conveyance or system of conveyances (including, but not limited to: roads with drainage systems, municipal streets, gutters, curbs, catch basins, inlets, piped storm drains, pumping facilities, retention and detention basins, natural and man-made or altered drainage ditches/channels, reservoirs, and other drainage structures) designed or used for collecting or conveying storm water runoff, which is not a combined sewer, and which is not part of a Publicly Owned Treatment Works as defined at 40 CFR 122.2. MS4 is also defined at 40 CFR 122.26(b)(8).
(s) “National Pollutant Discharge Elimination System (NPDES)” means a regulatory program under the Federal Clean Water Act that prohibits the discharges of pollutants into surface waters of the United States without a permit.
(t) “Non-Point Source Pollution” means any type of pollution that is not directly traceable to a particular source. (Ord. 200-2009. Passed 10-5-09.)
(u) "Non-Structural Storm Water Best Management Practice" means a storm water best management practice that is not designed or constructed to meet certain drawdown times but still provides storm water quality treatment, such as, but not limited to, preservation, riparian areas, buffer zones, open spaces, "green concepts", "smart growth concepts", certain policies and ordinances that minimize impervious surfaces and/or direct development away from water resources, operation and maintenance procedures, general good housekeeping practices, etc., or as otherwise identified or described in the current Ohio EPA Permit for Storm Water Discharges Associated with Construction Activity under the NPDES.
(Ord. 225-2010. Passed 11-22-10.)
(Ord. 225-2010. Passed 11-22-10.)
(v) “Off-Lot Discharging Household Sewage Treatment System” means a system designed to treat household sewage on-site and which discharges treated wastewater effluent off the property into a storm water or surface water conveyance or system.
(w) “Pollutant” means anything that causes or contributes to pollution. Pollutants may include, but are not limited to, paints, varnishes, solvents, oil and other automotive fluids, non-hazardous liquid and solid wastes, yard wastes, refuse, rubbish, garbage, litter, or other discarded or abandoned objects, floatable materials, pesticides, herbicides, fertilizers, hazardous materials, wastes, sewage, dissolved and particulate metals, animal wastes, residues that result from constructing a structure, and noxious or offensive matter of any kind.
(x) “Post-Construction Storm Water Quality Management” means the implementation of permanent structural and non-structural best management practices on a site for perpetual treatment of storm water runoff after construction is completed.
(y) “Redevelopment” means a change to previously improved real estate, including, but not limited to, the demolition of buildings or structures, filling, grading, paving, or excavating.
(z) “Riparian Area” means naturally vegetated land adjacent to water resources which, if appropriately preserved, can help to stabilize stream banks, reduce and/or contain flood flows, and/or filter and settle out pollutants in runoff.
(aa) “Sediment” means the soils or other surface materials that can be transported or deposited by the action of wind, water, ice or gravity, as a product of erosion.
(bb) “Sedimentation” means the deposition of sediment in water resources.
(cc) “Site” means the particular land, lot, parcel or development in which any part of this chapter is being used to apply storm water management standards and/or requirements.
(dd) “Stop Work Order” means an order issued requiring that all regulated activity on a site be stopped.
(ee) “Storm Water Authority” means the departments or agencies, and their authorized agents, which are responsible for the administration of this chapter.
(ff) “Storm Water Best Management Practices (BMPs)” means the combination of structural and/or non-structural storm water best management practices used for storm water quality management on a site.
(gg) “Storm Water Conveyance System” means the natural and/or man-made systems for storm water runoff conveyance, such as streams, storm sewers, ditches, swales, etc.
(hh) “Storm Water Management” means the implementation of storm water management systems on a site for proper storm water quality management and storm water quality management in accordance with applicable regulations.
(ii) “Storm Water Management Systems” means natural and/or man-made storm water conveyance systems, storm water detention facilities, and/or best management practices as approved by the City of Canton for the applicable storm water quantity management and/or storm water quality management on a site.
(jj) “Storm Water Quality Management” means the implementation of storm water management systems on a site for proper management of the quality of construction site and post-construction storm water runoff. Storm water quality management attempts to reduce or eliminate erosion and sedimentation caused by storm water runoff as well as the transportation of pollutants in storm water runoff to water resources.
(kk) “Storm Water Quantity Management” means the implementation of storm water management systems on a site for proper storm water runoff conveyance and/or volume and rate control. Storm water quantity management attempts to control the amount of runoff from a site so as to not cause flooding to adjacent properties or over-burden the capacities of existing drainage infrastructure.
(ll) “Storm Water Runoff” means the portion of rainfall, melted snow, irrigation waters, and/or other drainage that flows across the ground surface.
(Ord. 200-2009. Passed 10-5-09.)
(mm) "Structural Storm Water Best Management Practice" means a storm water best management practice that must be designed and built to meet certain drawdown times to provide treatment of storm water runoff through storage, filtration, or infiltration. Examples include extended detention basins, bioretention cells, sand filters, vegetated filter strips, water quality swales, infiltration trenches, etc., or as otherwise identified or described in the current Ohio EPA Permit for Storm Water Discharges Associated with Construction Activity under the NPDES.
(Ord. 225-2010. Passed 11-22-10.)
(nn) “Wastewater” means the spent water of a community or property. From the standpoint of a source, it may be a combination of the liquid and water-carried wastes from residences, commercial buildings, industrial plants, and institutions.
(oo) “Water Resource” means any public or private body of water, including wetlands, the area within the ordinary high water level of lakes and ponds, as well as the area within the ordinary high water level of any brook, creek, river or stream having a defined bed and bank (either natural or artificial) which confines and conducts continuous or intermittent flow.
(pp) “Watershed” means the total drainage area contributing storm water runoff to a single point of interest; drainage area.
(Ord. 200-2009. Passed 10-5-09.)