For the purpose of this chapter, the following definitions shall apply unless the context clearly indicates or requires a different meaning.
BEST MANAGEMENT PRACTICES (BMPs). 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.
CLEAN WATER ACT. The Federal Water Pollution Control Act (33 U.S.C. §§ 1251 et seq.) and any subsequent amendments.
COMMUNITY. The city offices and departments, its designated representatives, boards or commissions.
ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION AGENCY or UNITED STATES ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION AGENCY (USEPA). The United States Environmental Protection Agency, including, but not limited to, the Ohio Environmental Protection Agency (Ohio EPA) or any duly authorized official of the agency.
FLOATABLE MATERIAL. Any foreign matter that may float or remain suspended in the water column, and includes, but is not limited to, plastic, aluminum cans, wood products, bottles and paper products.
HAZARDOUS MATERIAL. Any material including any substance, waste or combination thereof, which because of its quantity, concentration, 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.
ILLEGAL CONNECTION. Any drain or conveyance, whether on the surface or subsurface, that allow an illicit discharge to enter the MS4.
ILLICIT DISCHARGE. As defined at 40 C.F.R. § 122.26 (b)(2), any discharge to an MS4 that is not composed entirely of storm water, except for those discharges to an MS4 pursuant to a NPDES permit or noted in § 52.07.
INDUSTRIAL ACTIVITY. Activities subject to NPDES industrial permits as defined in 40 C.F.R. § 122.26(b)(14).
MUNICIPAL SEPARATE STORM SEWER SYSTEM (MS4). As defined at 40 C.F.R. § 122.26(b)(8), a conveyance or system of conveyances (including roads with drainage systems, municipal streets, catch basins, curbs, gutters, ditches, human-made channels or storm drains):
(1) Owned or operated by a state, city, town, borough, county, parish, district, municipality, township, county, district, association or other public body (created by or pursuant to state law) having jurisdiction over sewage, industrial wastes, including special districts under state law, such as a sewer district, or similar entity, or an Indian tribe or an authorized Indian tribal organization, or a designated and approved management agency under § 208 of the Clean Water Act, being 33 U.S.C. § 1288, that discharges to waters of the United States;
(2) Designed or used for collecting or conveying storm water;
(3) Which is not a combined sewer; and
(4) Which is not part of a Publicly Owned Treatment Works (POTW) as defined at 40 C.F.R. § 122.2.
NATIONAL POLLUTANT DISCHARGE ELIMINATION SYSTEM (NPDES) STORM WATER DISCHARGE PERMIT. A permit issued by the EPA (or by the state under authority delegated pursuant to 33 U.S.C. § 1342(b)) that authorizes the discharge of pollutants to waters of the United States, whether the permit is applicable on an individual, group or general area-wide basis.
OFF-LOT DISCHARGING HOME SEWAGE TREATMENT SYSTEM. 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.
OWNER/OPERATOR/PERSON. 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.
POLLUTANT. Anything that causes or contributes to pollution. POLLUTANTS may include, but are not limited to, paints, varnishes, solvents, oil and other automotive fluids, nonhazardous 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.
PREMISES. Any building, lot, parcel of land, or portion of land, whether improved or unimproved, including adjacent sidewalks and parking strips.
STORM WATER. Any surface flow, runoff and drainage consisting entirely of water from any form of natural precipitation, and resulting from such precipitation.
WASTEWATER. The spent water of a community. From the standpoint of a source, it may be a combination of the liquid and water-carried wastes from residences, commercial buildings, industrial plants and institutions.
WATERS OF THE STATE. All streams, lakes, ponds, marshes, watercourses, waterways, wells, springs, irrigation systems, drainage systems, and other bodies or accumulations of water, surface and underground, natural or artificial, regardless of the depth of the strata in which underground water is located, that are situated wholly or partly within, or border upon, this state, or are within its jurisdiction, except those private waters that do not combine or effect a junction with natural surface or underground water.
(Prior Code, § 1043.03) (Ord. 2012-22, passed 11-27-2012)