(A) Except as provided herein, the definitions contained in 40 C.F.R. § 401.11 and 40 C.F.R. part 403, as amended, shall be applicable in this subchapter and are hereby incorporated by reference.
(B) For the purpose of this subchapter, the following definitions shall apply unless the context clearly indicates or requires a different meaning.
BY-PASS. A discharge into the public sanitary sewer which exits the sewage works 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 sewage works NPDES permit (including an increase in the magnitude or duration of a violation) comes into direct contact with or results from the production or use of any raw material, intermediate product, finished product, by-product, or waste product.
GARBAGE. Any solid wastes from the preparation, cooking, or dispensing of food and from the handling, storage, or sale of produce.
IDEM. The Indiana Department of Environmental Management.
INDUSTRIAL SEWAGE.
(a) The combination of liquid and water-carried wastes which is discharged from any commercial or industrial establishment resulting from any trade or process carried on in that establishment (this shall include process wastewater, the wastes from pretreatment facilities, and polluted cooling water).
(b) INDUSTRIAL SEWAGE excludes unpolluted water and waste which contains exclusively sanitary sewage.
INSPECTOR. The person or persons duly authorized by the town through the Town Council or Town Manager to inspect and approve the installation of building sewers and their connection to the public sanitary sewer system.
INTERFERENCE. A discharge into the public sanitary sewer system which, alone or in conjunction with a discharge or discharges from other sources, both:
(a) Inhibits or disrupts the sewage works, its treatment processes or operations, or its sludge processes, use, or disposal; and
(b) Therefore is a cause of a violation of any requirement of the sewage works’ NPDES permit (including an increase in the magnitude or duration of a violation) or of the prevention of sewage sludge use or disposal in compliance with the following statutory provisions and regulations or permits issued thereunder (or more stringent state or local regulations): § 405 of the Clean Water Act, the Solid Waste Disposal Act (SWDA), being 42 U.S.C. §§ 6901 et seq., including Title II, more commonly referred to as the Resource Conservation and Recovery Act (RCRA) being 42 U.S.C. §§ 6901 et seq., and including state regulations contained in any state sludge management plan prepared pursuant to subtitle D of the SWDA being 45 U.S.C. §§ 6941 et seq., the Clean Air Act being 42 U.S.C. §§ 7401 et seq., the Toxic Substances Control Act being 15 U.S.C. §§ 2601 et seq., and the Marine Protection, Research, and Sanctuaries Act being 16 U.S.C. §§ 1431 et seq. and 33 U.S.C. §§ 1401 et seq.
MAY. The act referred to is permissive.
NATURAL OUTLET. Any outlet into a watercourse, pond, ditch, lake, or other body of surface or groundwater.
NPDES PERMIT. A national pollutant discharge elimination system permit setting forth conditions and limitations for the discharge of any pollutant or combination of pollutants to the navigable waters of the United States pursuant to the Federal Water Pollution Control Act, being 33 U.S.C. §§ 1251 et seq.
POLLUTANT. Dredged soil, solid waste, incinerator residue, sewage, garbage, sewage sludge, munitions, chemical wastes, biological materials, radioactive materials, heat, wrecked or discarded equipment, rock, sand, cellar dirt, and industrial, municipal, agricultural waste discarded into water, and chlorinated water from swimming pools.
PRETREATMENT. The reduction of the amount of pollutants, the elimination of pollutants, or the alteration of the nature of pollutant properties in the wastewater to a less harmful state prior to or in lieu of discharging or otherwise introducing such pollutants into the sewage works. The reduction or alteration can be obtained by physical, chemical, or biological processes, process changes, or by other means, except as prohibited by 40 C.F.R. § 403.6(d), as amended. PRETREATMENT is subjected to all applicable rules and regulations contained in the Code of Federal Regulations as published in the Federal Register under regulation 40 C.F.R. part 403, as amended.
PRIVATE SEWER. A sewer which is not owned by public authority.
PROPERLY SHREDDED GARBAGE. The wastes from the preparation, cooking, and dispensing of food that has been shredded to such a 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 SANITARY SEWER. A sanitary sewer which is owned and controlled by the public authority and will consist of the following increments.
(a) COLLECTOR SEWER. A sanitary sewer whose primary purpose is to collect wastewater from individual point source discharges.
(b) FORCE MAIN. A sanitary sewer in which wastewater is carried under pressure.
(c) INTERCEPTOR SEWER. A sanitary sewer whose primary purpose is to transport wastewater from collector sewers to a treatment facility.
(d) PUMPING STATION. A station positioned in the public sanitary sewer system at which wastewater is collected and pumped to a higher level.
SANITARY SEWER. A sewer which carries sanitary sewage and to which storm, surface, and groundwater and other unpolluted water are not intentionally admitted.
SEWAGE. The combination of the liquid and water-carried wastes from residences, commercial buildings, industrial plants, and institutions (including polluted cooling water).
SHALL. The act referred to is mandatory.
SIGNIFICANT INDUSTRIAL USER.
(a) All industrial users subject to categorical pretreatment standards under 40 C.F.R. § 403.6 and 40 C.F.R. Chapter I, Subchapter N; and
(b) Any other industrial user that:
1. Discharges an average of 25,000 gallons per day or more of process wastewater to the sewage works (excluding sanitary, noncontact cooling, and boiler blowdown wastewater);
2. Contributes a process waste stream which makes up 5% or more of the average dry weather hydraulic or organic capacity of the sewage treatment plant; or
3. Is designated as such by the control authority as defined in 40 C.F.R. § 403.12(a) on the basis that the industrial user has a reasonable potential for adversely affecting the sewage works’ operation, the quality of biosolids such that it may negatively impact land application, or for violating any pretreatment standard or requirement (in accordance with 40 C.F.R. § 403.8(f)(6)).
SLUG. Any discharge of sewage or wastewater which in concentration of any given constituent or in quantity of flow exceeds for any period of duration longer than five minutes more than five times the average 24-hour concentration or flow during normal operation and which adversely affects the sewage works.
STORM SEWER. A pipe or conduit for conveying storm, surface, and groundwater or other unpolluted water from any source and to which sanitary sewage and industrial sewage are not intentionally admitted.
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 nitration. Their concentration shall be expressed in milligrams/liter.
TOWN. The Town of Cloverdale, Indiana.
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 benefited by discharge to the sanitary sewers and wastewater treatment facilities provided.
USEPA. The United States Environmental Protection Agency.
WATERCOURSE. A natural or artificial channel for the passage of water either continuously or intermittently.
(Prior Code, § 9-59) (Ord. 2009-7, passed 9-15-2009)