For the purpose of this chapter, the following definitions shall apply unless the context clearly indicates or requires a different meaning.
BUILDER. A person, partnership, contractor or corporation constructing one or more buildings for occupancy or any other use.
CITY. The City of Elizabethtown, Kentucky.
CITY REPRESENTATIVE. The Director of Storm Water Management or person or persons currently designated by the Mayor to administer the storm water program and any related permit activities.
CLEAN WATER ACT. The Federal Water Pollution Control Act (33 U.S.C. §§ 1251 et seq.).
DETENTION BASIN. A drainage facility constructed to restrict the runoff of storm water to a prescribed maximum rate and to detain for a specified period of time the excess waters that accumulate upstream from the outlet structure.
DEVELOPMENT. The planning or construction project involving substantial property improvement and, usually, a change of land-use character within the site; the act of using land for building purposes.
DRAINAGE AREA. The surface area from which water drains to a point of consideration.
ENGINEER. A person licensed as a professional engineer in the commonwealth in accordance with KRS Ch. 322.
FEMA. The Federal Emergency Management Agency.
FLOODPLAIN. Any area inundated by a 100-year flood or as determined by the FEMA Flood Insurance Rate Map(s) or an engineering study.
INDUSTRIAL ACTIVITY. Activities subject to KPDES Industrial Permits as defined in 40 C.F.R. § 122.26(b)(14).
KDOW. The Kentucky Division of Water.
KENTUCKY POLLUTANT DISCHARGE ELIMINATION SYSTEM (KPDES) STORM WATER DISCHARGE PERMIT. A permit issued by the Kentucky Division of Water (KDOW) under designated authority by the United States Environmental Protection Agency (USEPA), whether the permit is applicable on an individual, group or general area wide basis.
MUNICIPAL SEPARATE STORM SEWER SYSTEM (MS4). A conveyance or system of conveyances, including roads with drainage systems, municipal streets, catch basins, curbs, gutters, ditches, human-made channels or storm drains, that is designed or used for collecting or conveying storm water; not privately owned; not a combined sewer; and not part of a publicly-owned treatment works (POTW).
OUTFALL. The point or location where storm water runoff discharges from a BMP, conduit, stream or drain, storm sewer, channel or detention/retention facility.
PERSON. Except to the extent exempted from this chapter, any individual, partnership, firm, association, joint venture, public or private corporation, trust, estate, commission, board, public or private institution, utility, cooperative, city, town or other political subdivision of the state, any interstate body or any other legal entity conducting land-disturbing activities subject to this chapter.
POLLUTANT. Any thing of a chemical component or nature which causes or contributes to pollution.
POLLUTION. The contamination or other alteration of any water’s physical, chemical or biological properties by the addition of a constituent.
POST-CONSTRUCTION STORM WATER POLLUTION PREVENTION PLAN (P-SWPPP). A plan that illustrates how the pollutants or pollution will be prevented, treated and otherwise managed in the long-term, beyond that of construction phases.
PREMISES. Any building, lot, parcel of land or portion of land whether improved or unimproved.
QUALIFIED PROFESSIONAL. An individual who is trained and experienced in storm water treatment techniques and related fields as may be demonstrated by state licensure, professional certification, experience or completion of coursework, as accepted according to this chapter, that enable the individual to make sound, professional judgments regarding storm water control or treatment and monitoring, pollutant fate and transport and drainage planning.
REDEVELOPMENT PROJECTS. Classified as any activity at a current site that requires the submittal of a development plan. Existing single-family structures are exempt from redevelopment requirements.
STOP WORK ORDER. An order by the city directing a permittee to suspend all construction and/or operations, except for work related to remediation of the violation.
STORM SEWER. Channel, ditch, catch basin, inlet pipe, culvert, conduit or other conveyance used for the purposes of collecting and conveying storm water.
WATER QUALITY RETENTION BASIN. A drainage facility constructed to contain the runoff of storm water to a prescribed maximum rate/volume to pass into the ground water system without discharging the retained volume to surface waters, except through an emergency bypass under conditions beyond the designed capacity.
(Ord. 07-2012, passed 4-2-2012)