Council hereby adopts the following definitions related to the Stormwater Utility:
(a) “Abatement” means any action taken to remedy, correct or eliminate a condition within, associated with, or impacting a drainage system.
(b) “Approved plan” means plans approved according to a permit and plan review process, which will govern all improvements made within the City that require stormwater facilities or changes or alterations to existing stormwater facilities.
(c) “Code” means the Celina Codified Ordinances.
(d) “Combined sewer” is a sewer system that is designed to convey sanitary sewage, industrial waste and stormwater.
(e) “Detention” is the temporary storage of stormwater runoff in a basin, pond, or other structure to control the peak discharge rate by holding the stormwater for a lengthened period of time.
(f) “Detention Facility” means an area designed to temporarily store excess stormwater.
(g) “Director” means the Director of Public Service and Safety, City of Celina, Ohio.
(h) “Facilities” means various stormwater and drainage works that may include inlets, pipes, pumping stations, conduits, manholes, energy dissipation structures, channels, outlets, retention/detention basins, and other structural components.
(i) “Infiltration” is a complex process of allowing runoff to penetrate the ground surface and flow through the upper soil surface.
(j) “NPDES” means National Pollutant Discharge Elimination System.
(k) “NPDES Permit” means a permit issued to the City pursuant to the 1972 Federal Clean Water Act.
(l) “Peak Discharge” or “Peak Flow” is the maximum rate of flow of water passing a given point during or after a precipitation event.
(m) “Private Stormwater Facilities” are various stormwater and drainage works not under the ownership of the City, County, State and/or Federal Government which may include inlets, conduits, pipes, pumping stations manholes, structures, channels, outlets, catch basins, curb and gutter, ditches, retention or detention basins, and other structural components and equipment designed to transport, move or regulate stormwater.
(n) “Public Stormwater Facilities” are various stormwater and drainage works under the ownership of the City, County, State and/or Federal Government which may include inlets, conduits, pipes, pumping stations, manholes, structures, channels, outlets, retention or detention basins, and other structural components and equipment designed to transport, move or regulate stormwater.
(o) “Public Stormwater Open Channel” means all open channels, which convey, in part or in whole, stormwater and are owned by the City, and which have a permanent drainage/easement granted to the City.
(p) “Retention” is the holding of stormwater runoff in a constructed basin or pond or in a natural body of water without release except by means of evaporation, infiltration or emergency bypass.
(q) “Retention Facility” means a facility, which provides storage of stormwater runoff and is designed to eliminate subsequent surface discharges.
(r) “Stormwater” means stormwater runoff, snowmelt runoff, surface runoff, and drainage.
(s) “Storm Sewer” means a sewer, piping or natural structure, which carries stormwater, surface runoff, street wash waters, and drainage, but which excludes sanitary sewage and industrial wastes, other than unpolluted cooling water.
(t) “Stormwater System” means all facilities, structures and watercourses, whether man-made or natural, owned by the City, used for collection and conducting stormwater to, through and from drainage areas to the points of final outlet including, but not limited to, any and all of the following: conduits and appurtenant features, canals, creeks, catch basins, ditches, streams, gulches, gullies, flumes, culverts, siphons, streets, curbs, gutters, dams, floodwalls, levees and pumping stations.
(u) “Excess Stormwater” means that portion of stormwater, which exceeds the transportation capacity of storm sewers or natural drainage channels serving a specific watershed.
(v) “Dry Bottom Stormwater Storage Area” means a detention facility designed to be normally dry and contain water only when excess stormwater runoff occurs.
(w) “Wet Bottom Stormwater Storage Area” means a detention facility designed to be maintained as a pond or free water surface, and which has the capacity to contain excess stormwater runoff.
(x) “Vacant Property” means a parcel of land on which no improvements have been made and contains no impervious surface.
(Ord. 47-08-0. Passed 10-27-08.)