The words and terms used in this regulation, unless otherwise expressly stated, shall have the following meaning:
(a) “Best Management Practices (BMPs)” means schedules of activities, prohibitions of practices, general good housekeeping practices, pollution prevention and educational practices, maintenance procedures, and other management practices to prevent or reduce the discharge of pollutants to storm water. BMPs also include treatment practices, operating procedures, and practices to control site runoff, spillage or leaks, sludge or water disposal, or drainage from raw materials storage.
(b) “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.
(c) “Illicit discharge” means any discharge to a municipal storm sewer system that is not composed entirely of storm water, except for those discharges made pursuant to an NPDES permit or noted in Section 929.06.
(d) “Illegal connection” means any drain or conveyance, whether on the surface or subsurface, that allows an illicit discharge to enter the municipal storm sewer system.
(e) “Municipal storm sewer system” means all of the various facilities and systems used by the Village for collecting and/or conveying storm water which includes drainage systems, municipal streets, catch basins, curbs, gutters, ditches, man-made channels, or storm sewers.
(f) “Off-lot discharging home sewage treatment system” means a system designed to treat home sewage on-site and discharges treated wastewater effluent off the property into a storm water or surface water conveyance or system.
(g) “Owner/operator” means any individual, association, organization, partnership, firm, corporation or other entity recognized by law and acting as either the owner or on the owner's behalf.
(h) “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.
(Ord. 2009-19. Passed 8-4-09.)