Unless otherwise defined herein, terms shall be as adopted in the latest approved edition of Standard Methods for the Examination of Water and Wastewater (Standard Methods) published by the American Public Health Association, and American Water Works Association, and the Water Environment Federation and as set forth in 40 CFR Part 136. Waste constituents and characteristics shall be measured by techniques prescribed in 40 CFR Part 136 and amendments thereto unless a mutually agreed upon acceptable alternative method is adopted, or in such other method established by state or federal regulatory agencies. Monitoring and metering will be carried out by customarily accepted methods.
Act. Federal Water Pollution Control Act, as amended by the Clean Water Act and the Water Quality Act of in 1987, 33 U.S.C. §§1251 et seq.
Authorized Representative of Industrial Users. Means:
(a) In the case of a corporation, a president, a secretary, treasurer, or vice president of the corporation in charge of a principal business function;
(b) In the case of a partnership or proprietorship, a general partner or proprietor; and
(c) An authorized representative of the individual designated above if (a) such representative is responsible for the overall operation of the facilities from which the discharge into the POTW originates; (b) the authorization is in writing and (c) the written authorization is submitted to the Utility Director.
Beneficial Uses. These include, but are not limited to, domestic, municipal, agricultural and industrial use, power generation, recreation, aesthetic enjoyment, navigation, and the preservation and enhancement of fish, wildlife and other aquatic resources or reserves, and other uses, both tangible or intangible, as specified by state or federal law.
Best Management Practices (BMPs). Schedules of activities, prohibitions of practices, maintenance procedures, and other management practices to implement the General Discharge Prohibitions contained in Division III, below. 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. BMPs also include alternative means (i.e., management plans) of complying with, or in place of, certain established Pretreatment Standards and effluent limits.
Biochemical Oxygen Demand (BOD). The BOD of sewage, sewage effluent, polluted waters or industrial wastes shall mean the quantity of dissolved oxygen in milligrams per liter required during stabilization of the decomposable organic matter by aerobic biochemical action under standard laboratory procedures for five days at 20° Celsius. The laboratory determinations of BOD shall be made in accordance with procedures set forth in Standard Methods, therein and conventionally referred to as BOD5.
Board. The Board of Public Works and Safety of the City of Carmel. It is the governing body of the sewerage system of the City, which is a public service.
Building Drain. The lowest horizontal piping of a building drainage system which receives the discharge from soil, waste, and other drainage pipes inside a building and conveys it to a point outside of the building.
(a) Sanitary Building Drain. A building drain which conveys sanitary or industrial sewage only.
(b) Storm Building Drain. A building drain which conveys storm water or other clear-water drainage, but no wastewater.
Bypass. The intentional diversion of waste streams from any portion of an industrial User's treatment facility.
Carbonaceous Biochemical Oxygen Demand (CBOD). The CBOD of sewage, sewage effluent polluted waters or industrial wastes shall mean the quantity of dissolved oxygen in milligrams per liter required during stabilization of the decomposable organic matter by aerobic biochemical action under standard laboratory procedures for five days at 20° Celsius. The laboratory determinations of CBOD shall be made in accordance with procedures set forth in Standard Methods therein and conventionally referred to as CBOD.
Categorical Industrial User. An industrial User subject to a National Categorical Pretreatment Standard or Categorical Standard.
Chemical Oxygen Demand (COD). The COD of sewage, sewage effluent, polluted waters or industrial wastes is a measure of the oxygen equivalent of that portion of the organic matter in a sample that is susceptible to oxidation by a strong chemical oxidant. The laboratory determination shall be made in accordance with procedures set forth in Standard Methods.
City. The City of Carmel, Indiana.
Combined Sewer. A sewer which carries storm, surface or groundwater runoff in addition to sewage.
Compatible Pollutants. Wastewater having or containing (a) measurable biochemical oxygen demand, (b) suspended solids, (c) pH, (d) fecal coliform bacteria, or (e) additional pollutants identified or defined in the City's National Pollutant Discharge Elimination System (NPDES) permit or by the state or Board.
Composite Sample. A Composite Sample should contain a minimum of four discrete samples, taken at equal time intervals over the compositing period or proportional to the flow rate over the compositing period. More than the minimum number of discrete samples will be required where the wastewater loading is highly variable.
Constituents and Characteristics (of wastewater). The chemical, physical, bacteriological and radiological properties, including volume, flow rate and such other properties which serve to define, classify or measure the contents, quality, quantity and strength of wastewater.
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.
Debt Service Charge. A charge levied on Users of a treatment works to fund debt service, on outstanding revenue bonds and current capital costs.
Effluent. The water, together with any wastes that may be present, flowing out of a drain, sewer, receptacle or outlet.
Existing Source. Any source of discharge that is not a "New Source."
Floatable FOG. Fat, oil, or grease in a physical state, such that it will separate by gravity from wastewater by treatment in a pretreatment facility approved by the City.
FOG (All Fats, Oils and Grease, Petroleum Products and By-Products.) Fats, oils and grease as found in food service facilities include but are not limited to, any substance such as vegetable or animal product that is used in, or is a by-product of, the cooking or food preparation process, and that turns or may turn viscous or solidifies with a change in temperature or other conditions. Petroleum, oils and grease as found in auto service facilities include, but are not limited to, any substance such as petroleum oil, nonbiodegradable cutting oil or products of mineral oil origin that is used in, or is a byproduct of, an automotive process. These substances are detectable and measurable using analytical test procedures established in 40 CFR Part 136, as may be amended from time to time.
FOG Facility or FOG Facilities. Any non-domestic User or combination of Users that generates FOG.
FOG Equipment. Includes oil-water separators, grease traps, and grease interceptors.
Garbage. Any solid wastes from the preparation, cooking, or dispensing of food or from the handling, storage or sale of produce.
Grab Sample. An individual discrete sample collected over a period not exceeding 15 minutes and characterizes the quality of the discharge at a given time.
Grease Interceptor. An outdoor, watertight receptacle utilized to intercept, collect, and restrict the passage of FOG and food particles into the POTW to which the receptacle is directly or indirectly connected, and to separate and retain FOG and food particles from the wastewater discharged by a facility. An interceptor shall be sized and configured per good engineering standards and approved by the Utility Director.
Grease Trap. An indoor, watertight receptacle utilized to intercept, collect, and restrict the passage of FOG and food particles into the POTW to which the receptacle is directly or indirectly connected, and to separate and retain FOG and food particles from the wastewater discharged by a facility. A trap shall be sized and configured per good engineering standards and approved by the Utility Director.
Hauled or Trucked Pollutants. Wastes, including holding tank waste, which is trucked or hauled from any location prior to discharge to the POTW treatment plant, collection system, or by any other conveyance.
Incompatible Pollutants. Any pollutants which are not compatible pollutants.
IDEM. Indiana Department of Environmental Management.
Indirect Discharger. Means any User introducing non-domestic pollutants into the POTW, regardless of whether the discharger is in the governmental jurisdiction of the City.
Industrial Wastes. Any solid, liquid or gaseous substance or form of energy discharged, permitted to flow into or enter the sewerage system or ground from an industrial, manufacturing, commercial or business process or from the development, recovery or processing of any natural resource carried on by any person and shall further mean any waste from an industrial User, but not including sanitary sewage or storm water.
Industrial Wastewater Pretreatment Permit (IWP Permit). Permits issued by IDEM to categorical dischargers and significant industrial Users located in non-delegated pretreatment cities that discharge industrial process wastewater to the POTW.
Infiltration. The water, other than wastewater, entering the sewerage system directly or via private sewers, building drains and building sewers connected therewith, from the ground, through such means as, but not limited to, defective pipe joints, connections, or manhole walls.
Inflow. Water, other than wastewater, entering the sewerage system from sources such as cellars, yard areas, foundation drains, sump pumps, drains from springs and swampy areas, manhole areas, cross connections between storm and sanitary sewers, catch basins, cooling towers, storm water, surface runoff or drainage.
Inspector. A person authorized by the City to perform inspection duties assigned to him by the Utility Director or his designee.
Interference. Any discharge that, alone or in conjunction with a discharge or discharges from other sources, does one of the following:
(a) Inhibits or disrupts the POTW, its treatment processes or operations, its sludge processes, or its selected sludge use or disposal methods.
(b) Causes a violation of any requirement of the POTW's NPDES permit, including an increase in the magnitude or duration of a violation.
(c) Prevents the use of the POTW's sewage sludge or its sludge disposal method selected in compliance with the following statutory provisions, regulations, or permits issued thereunder or more stringent federal, state, or local laws, rules, or regulations:
(1) Section 405 of the Clean Water Act (33 U.S.C. 1345), as it may be amended.
(2) The Solid Waste Disposal Act (SWDA) (42 U.S.C. 6901), as it may be amended, including:
i. Title II, more commonly referred to as the Resource Conservation and Recovery Act (RCRA), as it may be amended; and
ii. The rules contained in any state sludge management plan prepared pursuant to Subtitle D of the SWDA (42 U.S.C. 6941), as it may be amended.
(3) The Clean Air Act (42 U.S.C. 7401), as it may be amended.
(4) The Toxic Substances Control Act (15 U.S.C. 2601), as it may be amended.
Lateral Sewer. The extension from the building drain to the sewerage system or other place of disposal.
Local Limit. Specific discharge limits developed and enforced by the City upon industrial or commercial facilities to implement the General Discharge Prohibitions contained in Division III, below.
May. Means that the act referred to is both permissible and approved.
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.
National Categorical Pretreatment Standard. Any regulation that applies to industrial Users and contains pollutant discharge limits promulgated by the USEPA in accordance with Sections 307(b) and (c) of the Act (33 U.S.C. 1251 et seq.), which applies to a specific category of industrial Users.
New Source. Means
(a) 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, provided that:
(1) The building, structure, facility, or installation is constructed at a site at 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. 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.
(b) 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 paragraph (a)(2) or (3) above but otherwise alters, replaces, or adds to existing processes or production equipment.
(c) Construction of a new source as defined under this paragraph has commenced if the owner or operator has:
(1) Begun, or caused to begin, as part of a continuous onsite construction program:
i. Any placement, assembly, or installation of facilities or equipment; or
ii. Significant site preparation work including clearing, excavation, or removal of existing buildings, structures, or facilities that is necessary for the placement, assembly, or installation of new source facilities or equipment; or
(2) Entered into a binding contractual obligation for the purchase of facilities or equipment that are intended to be used in its operation within a reasonable time. Options to purchase or contracts that can be terminated or modified without substantial loss, and contracts for feasibility, engineering, and design studies do not constitute a contractual obligation under this paragraph.
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.
Normal Domestic Sewage. Sewage discharged by residential Users.
NPDES Permit. National Pollutant Discharge Elimination System permit, a permit issued under the national program for issuing, modifying, revoking and reissuing, terminating, denying, monitoring and enforcing permits for the discharge of pollutants from point sources and imposing and enforcing pretreatment requirements by the USEPA or the state pursuant to Sections 307, 318, 402 and 405 of the Act.
Nuisance. Any substance which is injurious to health or offensive to the senses or an obstruction to the free use of property so as to interfere with the comfort or enjoyment of life or property.
Oil-Water Separator. A device which utilizes the difference in density between oil, petroleum products or chemical products, and water for removal.
Operation and Maintenance. All expenses related directly to operating and maintaining, including replacement, the sewage works as identified in the Uniform System of Accounts for Wastewater Utilities or as prescribed by the Indiana State Board of Accounts under the general headings, Plant Operation and Maintenance, Sewer Operation and Maintenance, Customer Accounts, Administrative and General, Insurance and Taxes.
Pass Through. A discharge proceeding through a POTW into waters of the state in quantities or concentrations that, alone 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.
Person. Any individual, partnership, firm, company, corporation, association, joint stock company, trust, estate, governmental entity or any other legal entity, or their legal representatives, agency or assigns. The masculine gender shall include the feminine, the singular shall include the plural where indicated by the content.
pH. The measure of the relative acidity or alkalinity of water and is defined as the negative logarithm (base 10) of the hydrogen ion concentration.
Pollutant. Any dredged spoil, solid waste, incinerator residue, sewage, garbage, sewage sludge, munitions, chemical wastes, toxic wastes, hazardous substances, biological materials, radioactive materials, heat, wrecked or discharged equipment, rock, sand, cellar dirt and industrial, municipal, commercial, and agricultural waste or any other contaminant discharged into water.
Pretreatment or Treatment. The reduction of the amount of pollutants, the elimination of pollutants, or the alteration of the nature and pollutant properties in wastewater prior to or in lieu of discharging or otherwise introducing the pollutants into a POTW or waterway. The reduction or alteration can be obtained by physical, chemical or biological processes, process changes, or by other means, except dilution as prohibited in 40 CFR 403.6 (d) and 327 I AC 5-18-4.
Pretreatment Standard or Standard. Any local, state or federal regulation containing pollutant discharge limits. This term includes local limits, prohibitive discharge limits including those promulgated under 40 CFR 403.5, National Categorical Pretreatment Standards under 40 CFR Chapter I, Subchapter N, and other pretreatment requirements established in 327 IAC5-18.
Prohibited Discharges. A User may not introduce into a POTW any pollutant(s) which cause pass through or interference. These general prohibitions and the specific prohibitions in Division III apply to each User introducing pollutants into a POTW whether or not the User is subject to other Pretreatment Standards or any national, state, or local pretreatment requirements.
Public Sewer. A sewer owned by the City and/or a sewer to which all owners of abutting properties have equal rights, and which is under the control of the POTW.
Publicly Owned Treatment Works (POTW). A treatment works includes any devices and systems used in the storage, treatment, recycling, and reclamation of municipal sewage and compatible industrial waste. The systems include sewers, pipes, and equipment used to convey wastewater to the treatment facility. This term also refers to the municipality of Carmel, which has jurisdiction over the indirect discharges to and the discharges from the treatment works.
Receiving Stream. West Fork of the White River.
Replacement. 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 designated and constructed. The term "operation and maintenance" includes replacement.
Sanitary Sewage. Sewage such as, and having the characteristics of, domestic sewage from dwellings (including apartment houses and hotels), office buildings, factories or institutions, free from storm and surface water and industrial wastes.
Sanitary Sewer. A sewer intended to carry only sanitary or sanitary and industrial waste waters from residences, commercial buildings, industrial plants and institutions.
Septage Permits. Any septage services provider must possess a valid permit from IDEM. A land application permit from IDEM's Office of Land Quality must be obtained prior to the land application of septage.
Septage Services Provider. Any person providing or engaging in septage wastewater management that pumps septic tanks and/or transports septage for disposal.
Septage Wastewater. Wastewater from domestic septic tanks, holding tanks, privies, seepage pits, cesspools, compost toilets, portable sanitary units or "restaurant" grease (animal/vegetable only) from traps or interceptors.
Septic Tank Waste. Any sewage from holding tanks such as vessels, chemical toilets, campers, trailers, and septic tanks.
Severe Property Damage. Substantial physical damage to property or the treatment facilities which causes them to become inoperable, or substantial and permanent loss of natural resources which can reasonably be expected to occur in the absence of a bypass. Severe property damage does not mean economic loss caused by delays in production.
Sewage. Human excrement and gray water (household showers, dishwashing operations, etc.).
Sewer. A pipe or conduit laid for carrying sewage or other liquids and solids suspended or entrained therein.
Sewer Charge. The total of the User charge and the debt service charge.
Sewerage System. The network of publicly owned sewers and appurtenances used for collection, transporting, and pumping wastewater to the POTW, and the POTW itself.
Shall. Means the act referred to is mandatory.
Shredded Garbage. Garbage that is shredded to such a degree that all particles will be carried freely in suspension under the conditions normally prevailing in the sewerage system, with no particle being greater than one-half (1/2) inch in dimension.
Significant Industrial User (SIU). The term SIU means:
(a) All industrial Users subject to Pretreatment Standards under 40 CFR Chapter I, Subchapter N and 327 IAC 5-17-23, discharging to the POTW.
(b) An industrial User that discharges an average of 25,000 gallons per day (gpd) or more of process wastewater to the POTW (excluding sanitary, non-contact cooling and boiler blowdown wastewater);
(c) An industrial User that contributes a process waste stream which makes up five percent or more of the average dry weather hydraulic or organic capacity of the POTW; or
(d) An industrial User that is designated as such by the Utility Director on the basis that the industrial User has a reasonable potential for adversely affecting the POTW's operation or violating any Pretreatment Standard or requirement in accordance with 40 CFR Chapter I, Subchapter N, 327 IAC 5-18, and local limits.
(e) The Utility Director may determine that an industrial User (subject to Pretreatment Standards under 40 CFR Chapter I, Subchapter N) is a nonsignificant categorical industrial User rather than a significant industrial User if the industrial User never discharges more than 100 gpd of total categorical wastewater (excluding sanitary, noncontact cooling and boiler blowdown wastewater, unless specifically included in the pretreatment standard) and the following conditions are met:
(1) The industrial User, prior to the Utility Director's findings, has consistently complied with all applicable Pretreatment Standards and requirements.
(2) The industrial User annually submits the certification statement required in 40 CFR Part 403.12(q) together with any additional information necessary to support the certification statement.
(3) The industrial User never discharges any untreated concentrated wastewater.
(f) The Utility Director may: (1) on his own initiative; or (2) in response to a petition received from an industrial User or a POTW and in accordance with 327 IAC 5-19-3(6); determine that an industrial User is not a significant industrial User.
Significant Noncompliance. Means the status of an industrial User that has caused or allowed a violation that meets one or more of the following criteria:
(a) Chronic violations of wastewater discharge limits, defined here as those in which sixty-six percent or more of all 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) violation, defined here as those in which thirty-three percent or more of all the measurements for each pollutant parameter taken during a six-month periodequal or exceed the product of the daily maximum limit or the average limit multiplied by the applicable TRC (TRC=1.4 for CBOD, 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 long-term average) that the Utility Director determined has caused, alone or in combination with other discharges, interference or pass through (including endangering the health of POTW personnel or the public);
(d) Any discharge of a pollutant that has caused imminent endangerment to human health, welfare or to the environment or has resulted in the POTW's exercise of its emergency authority to halt or prevent such a discharge;
(e) Failure to meet, within 90 days after the schedule date, a compliance schedule milestone contained in a local control mechanism or enforcement order for starting construction, completing construction, or attaining final compliance;
(f) Failure to provide, within 45 days after the due date, required reports such as baseline monitoring reports, 90-day compliance reports, periodic self-monitoring reports, and reports on compliance with compliance schedules;
(g) Failure to accurately report noncompliance;
(h) Any other violation or group of violations which the Utilities determines will adversely affect the operation or implementation of the local pretreatment program.
Slug Discharge. Any discharge at a flow rate or concentration that could cause a violation of the General Discharge Prohibitions contained in Division III, below. 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.
State. The State of Indiana.
Storm Sewer. A sewer intended to carry only storm waters, surface runoff, street wash waters and drainage. A sewer designed to transport only storm and surface water and does not lead to a wastewater treatment facility.
Storm Water. Any flow occurring during or following any form of natural precipitation and resulting from such precipitation, including snowmelt.
Surcharge. A charge for sewerage services in addition to the basic sewer charge. This charge is assessed Users whose sewage is of such a nature that it imposes upon the POTW a burden greater than that covered by the basic User charge.
Suspended Solids. Solids which either float on the surface of or are in suspension in water, sewage or other liquid and which are removable by laboratory filtration. Their concentration shall be expressed in milligrams per liter (mg/L). Quantitative determinations shall be made in accordance with procedures set forth in Standard Methods.
Total Suspended Solids (TSS). The value of the test for total suspended solids, as described in the latest approved edition of Standard Methods.
Toxic Pollutant. Any pollutant or combination of pollutants identified as toxic pursuant to Section 307(a) of the Act or other federal statutes or in regulations promulgated by the state under state law.
Upset. An exceptional incident in which there is unintentional and temporary noncompliance with Pretreatment Standards because of factors beyond the reasonable control of the industrial User. An upset does not include noncompliance to the extent caused by operational error, improperly designed pretreatment facilities, inadequate pretreatment facilities, lack of preventive maintenance, or careless or improper operation.
USEPA. Means United States Environmental Protection Agency.
User. A person who introduces into or discharges into, including both the owner and occupant of real estate from which is introduced or discharged into the sewerage system, or tributary to the POTW, any substance whatever.
User Charge. A charge levied on Users of a treatment works, or that portion of the ad-valorem taxes paid by a User, for the User's proportionate share of the cost of operation and maintenance including replacement of such works.
User Classes.
(a) Residential User. A User who introduces only normal domestic sewage from a single family or multifamily dwelling into the sewerage system.
(b) Commercial User. Transit lodging, retail and wholesale establishments or places engaged in providing merchandise for personal, household or industrial consumption and or rendering services to others.
(c) Institutional User. A publicly or privately owned school, hospital, nursing home, prison, or other similar institution whose wastes are segregated domestic wastes.
(d) Governmental User. A User engaged in legislative, judicial or administrative activities of federal, state and local governments, such as court houses, police and fire stations, city halls and similar governmental Users.
(e) Industrial User. Any indirect discharger who discharges industrial wastes as defined in Section 9-103 of this ordinance.
(f) Clay Township Regional Waste District ("CTRWD") serves its own customer base and transmits wastewater to the City for treatment pursuant to a special agreement approved by the Board. The CTRWD is deemed a user of the Carmel sewerage system and wastewater discharges that flow from the CTRWD to the City of Carmel sewerage system shall comply with this ordinance.
(g) Citizens Wastewater of Westfield, LLC ("Citizens Wastewater of Westfield"), serves its own customer base and transmits wastewater to the City for wholesale treatment as a successor in interest and pursuant to that certain municipal wastewater service agreement between the City of Carmel and the Town of Westfield ("Westfield Agreement"). The Citizens Wastewater of Westfield is deemed a User of the Carmel sewerage system and wastewater discharges that flow from the Citizens Wastewater of Westfield system to the City of Carmel sewerage system shall comply with this ordinance.
Utilities. The City of Carmel Utilities, the Utility Director subject to the control in all matters of the Sewer Department, and authorized or designated personnel.
Utility Director. The person designated by the City to supervise the operation of the POTW, and who is charged with certain duties and responsibilities by this ordinance. The term also means a duly authorized representative of the Utility Director.
Waste. Sanitary sewage and all other waste substance liquid, solid, gaseous, or radioactive, associated with human habitation, or of human or animal origin, or from any producing, processing manufacturing or industrial operation of whatever nature, including such waste placed within containers of whatever nature prior to, and for purposes of, disposal.
Wastewater. The liquid and water-carried industrial wastes and sewage from residences, business buildings, institutions and industrial establishments, singular or in any combination, together with such ground, surface and storm waters as may be present.
Wastewater Treatment Plant. Any arrangement of devices and structures used by the City for treatment and disposing of sewage, sludge, and other sewage constituents and products.
Waters of the State. The accumulations of water, surface and underground, natural and artificial, public and private; or a part of the accumulation of water that are wholly or partially within, flow through or border upon Indiana. The term does not include an exempt isolated wetland, a private pond or an off-stream pond, reservoir, wetland or other facility built for reduction or control of pollution or cooling of water before discharge. All streams, lakes, ponds, marshes, watercourses, waterways, wells, springs, reservoirs, aquifers, irrigation systems, drainage systems and all other bodies or accumulations of water, surface or underground, natural or artificial, public or private, which are contained within, flow through, or border upon the state or any portion thereof. Also includes, the floodplain free-flowing waters determined by the Department of Natural Resources based on 100-year flood frequency.
(Ord. S-74-18, Version A, §2, 6-18-18)