For the purpose of this chapter, the following definitions shall apply unless the context clearly indicates or requires a different meaning.
ACT. The Federal Water Pollution Control Act, also known as the Clean Water Act, as amended, 33 U.S.C. §§ 1251 et seq.
APPROVAL AUTHORITY. The Region 5 Administrator of the United States Environmental Protection Agency or delegated designee thereof.
AUTHORIZED REPRESENTATIVE OF THE FOOD SERVICE ESTABLISHMENT (FSE). The following:
(1) If the FSE is a corporation:
(a) The president, secretary, treasurer or a vice-president of the corporation in charge of a principal business function, or any other person who performs similar policy or decision-making functions for the corporation; or
(b) The manager of one or more operating facilities, provided the manager is authorized to make management decisions that govern the operation of the regulated facility, including having the explicit or implicit duty of making major capital investment recommendations, and initiate and direct other comprehensive measures to assure long-term environmental compliance with environmental laws and regulations; can ensure that the necessary systems are established or actions taken to gather complete and accurate information for individual FOG registration requirements; and where authority to sign documents has been assigned or delegated to the manager in accordance with corporate procedures.
(2) If the FSE is a partnership or sole proprietorship: a general partner or proprietor, respectively.
(3) If the FSE is a federal, state or local governmental facility: a director or highest official appointed or designated to oversee the operation and performance of the activities of the government facility, or their designee.
(4) The individuals described in divisions (1) through (3) above, may designate a duly authorized representative if the authorization is in writing, the authorization specifies the individual or position responsible for the overall operation of the facility from which the discharge originates or having overall responsibility for environmental matters for the company, and the written authorization is submitted to the Director.
BEST MANAGEMENT PRACTICES (BMPS). A schedule of activities, prohibitions of practices, maintenance procedures and other management practices to prevent or reduce the pollution of waters of the state. For purposes of this chapter, BEST MANAGEMENT PRACTICES include procedures and practices that reduce the discharge of FOG to the building sewer and to the WWTP.
BUILDING DRAIN. The part of the plumbing that is the lowest horizontal piping within a building or house that conducts wastewater or storm water to a sewer lateral.
BYPASS. An intentional diversion of waste streams from any portion of a food service establishment’s grease control device.
COMBINED SEWER. A sewer designed and constructed to convey sanitary wastewaters (domestic, commercial or industrial wastewaters) and storm water through a single pipe system to the wastewater treatment plant (WWTP).
COMMERCIAL USER. A source of wastewater discharging to the WWTP from business establishments including, but not limited to, stores, markets, office buildings, FSEs, shopping centers and which is not an industrial user.
CONTROL AUTHORITY. The Water Utility Board of the Town of Greenville. It is the governing body of the WWTP.
DESIGNATED FACILITY CONTACT. A person whose position is responsible for day to day activities and operation of the FSE.
DIRECTOR or SUPERINTENDENT. The person responsible for supervising the operation of the WWTP, or that person’s duly authorized representative.
DISCHARGE. The pouring forth, emission or release of pollutants or wastewater from any source.
EFFLUENT. The water, together with any wastes that may be present, flowing out of a drain, sewer, receptacle or outlet.
EFFLUENT LIMITATION. Any restriction established by the Control Authority or the approval authority on quantities, discharge rates and concentrations of pollutants that are discharged from point sources into the WWTP or waters of the state.
ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION AGENCY (EPA). The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, or where appropriate the term may also be used as a designation for the administrator or other duly authorized official of said agency.
EXISTING SOURCE. A food service establishment that is not a new source.
FATS, OILS AND GREASE (FOG). A group of substances including hydrocarbons, fatty acids, soaps, fats, waxes, oils or any other materials that are extracted by a solvent from an acidified sample that are not volatilized during the laboratory test procedures. This includes both polar (animal or vegetable in origin) and non-polar (total petroleum hydrocarbons) substances. Oils and greases are more specifically defined by the standard method used for their determination.
FOG CONTROL DEVICE. Any grease interceptor, grease trap or other mechanism, device or process, which attaches to, or is applied to, wastewater plumbing fixtures and lines, the purpose of which is to trap or collect FOG prior to it being discharged into the WWTP.
FOG CONTROL PROGRAM. The program established by the town’s pretreatment program under the authority granted by the ordinance.
FOG REGISTRATION CERTIFICATE (CERTIFICATE). The certificate issued by the town certifying that all prerequisites defined in this chapter are satisfied at the time of issuance and the FSE may commence discharging to the sewer as such.
FOOD GRINDER. Any device installed in the plumbing or sewage system for the purpose of grinding food waste or food preparation by-products for the purpose of disposing it in the sewer system.
FOOD SERVICE ESTABLISHMENT (FSE). An operation or enterprise that stores, prepares, packages, serves, vends or otherwise provides food for human consumption. Such facilities may include, but are not limited to, those that process meat or other food ingredients as an intermediate step or for final human consumption, food service operations in a summer camp, residential substance abuse treatment facility, halfway house, correctional facility, school, restaurant, commercial kitchen, caterer, church, hotel, bar, hospital, prison, care institution or similar facility.
GRAB SAMPLE. An individual sample or group of samples collected over a period of time not exceeding 15 minutes.
GREASE INTERCEPTOR. A device located underground and outside a food service facility designed to collect, contain or remove food wastes and grease from the waste stream while allowing the balance of the liquid waste to discharge to the WWTP system by gravity.
GREASE TRAP. A device located inside a food service facility or under a sink designed to collect, contain or remove food wastes and grease from the waste stream while allowing the balance of the liquid waste to discharge to the WWTP by gravity.
INSPECTOR. A person authorized by the Superintendent to perform inspection and monitoring duties to determine compliance with this chapter.
INDIANA PLUMBING CODE. The current version of 675 I.A.C. 16.
MANIFEST. The receipt which is retained by the generator of wastes for disposing recyclable wastes or liquid wastes as required by the Control Authority.
MAY. That the act referred to is both permissible and approved.
NPDES PERMIT. The national pollutant discharge elimination system permit now or hereafter held by the town which sets forth conditions for the discharge of any pollutants or combinations of pollutants.
NUISANCE. Any substance which is injurious to health, offensive to the senses or an obstruction to the free use of property so as to interfere with the comfort or enjoyment of life or property.
POLLUTANT. Includes, but is not limited to, any of the following discharged into water: FOG, dredged spoil, solid waste, incinerator residue, filter backwash, sewage, wastewater, garbage, sludge, munitions, chemical wastes, toxic wastes, hazardous substances, biological materials, radioactive materials, heat, wrecked or discarded equipment, rock, sand, cellar dirt and industrial, municipal and agricultural waste.
PRETREATMENT. The reduction of the amount of pollutants, the elimination of pollutants or the alteration of the nature of pollutant properties in wastewater prior to, or in lieu of, discharging or otherwise introducing such pollutants into the WWTP. The reduction or alteration can be obtained by physical, chemical or biological processes or any combination thereof, by process changes, or by other means, except dilution.
PRETREATMENT REQUIREMENTS. Any substantive or procedural requirement related to pretreatment imposed on a user, other than a pretreatment standard.
PUBLICLY OWNED TREATMENT WORKS (WWTP). A treatment works as defined by § 212 of the Act, (33 U.S.C. § 1292) owned in this instance by the town. This definition includes any sewers, pipes and other conveyances conveying wastewater to the WWTP treatment plant. The term does not include pipes, sewers or other conveyances not connected to a facility providing treatment or storage. For the purposes of this chapter, WWTP shall also include any sewers, pipes or other conveyances that convey wastewater to the WWTP from persons outside the town who are, by contract or agreement with the town, users of the town’s WWTP, The term also means the municipality, as defined in § 502(4) of the Act, being 33 U.S.C. § 1362(b), which has jurisdiction over the discharges to and the direct discharges from such a treatment works.
SANITARY SEWER. A sewer designed to convey liquid and water-carried wastes from residences, commercial buildings, industrial plants and institutions and to which storm, surface and ground waters are not intentionally allowed to enter.
SANITARY WASTEWATER. The liquid and water-carried waste from residences, commercial buildings, industrial plants, institutions and other places that is transported by sewers and is primarily composed of human and household waste. SANITARY WASTEWATER, as received by the WWTP, may contain a component of industrial waste.
SETTLEABLE SOLIDS. The portion of the suspended solids which are of sufficient size and weight to settle in a given period of time, usually one hour.
SEWER. A pipe or conduit, which carries wastewater, storm water or drainage water.
SEWER LATERAL. The horizontal piping that extends from the end of the building drain to the public sewer or other place of disposal. SEWER LATERALS are not part of the WWTP.
SHALL. The act referred to is mandatory.
STATE. The State of Indiana.
STANDARD METHODS. An assembly of analytical techniques and descriptions commonly accepted in water and wastewater treatment as listed in 40 C.F.R. § 136 and contained in Standard Methods for the Examination of Water and Wastewater, published jointly by the American Public Health Association, American Water Works Association and the Water Environment Federation.
SURVEILLANCE. The ongoing systematic collection and analysis of data.
SUSPENDED SOLIDS. Solids, which either float on the surface or are suspended in water, wastewater or other liquids, and which are removable by laboratory filtration.
TOWN. The Town of Greenville, Indiana.
TREATMENT PLANT. The portion of the WWTP designed to provide treatment to wastewater.
TWENTY-FIVE PERCENT RULE. A requirement for FOG control devices to be maintained such that the combined FOG and solids accumulation does not exceed 25% of the design hydraulic depth of the grease trap or interceptor. This is to ensure that the minimum hydraulic retention time and required available hydraulic volume is maintained to effectively intercept and retain FOG from discharging to the sewer system.
UTILITY. The Town of Greenville’s wastewater utility.
WASTE. Sanitary wastewater and any and all other waste substances, liquid, solid, gaseous or radioactive, associated with human habitation, or of human or animal origin, or from any producing, processing, manufacturing or industrial operation of whatever nature, including such waste placed within containers of whatever nature prior to, and for purposes of, disposal.
WASTEWATER. Liquid or water-carried wastes from residential, commercial, industrial, municipal, agricultural or other sources.
(Ord. 1997-T-04, passed 11-11-1997)