ABBREVIATIONS: The following abbreviations shall have the designated meanings:
BOD Biochemical oxygen demand
CFR Code of federal regulations
COD Chemical oxygen demand
CWA Clean water act, 33 USC 1251 et seq.
EPA Environmental protection agency
l Liter
mg Milligrams
mg/l Milligrams per liter
NPDES National pollutant discharge elimination system
POTW Publicly owned treatment works
SIC Standard industrial classification
SWDA Solid waste disposal act, 42 USC 6901 et seq.
TSS Total suspended solids
USC United States Code
ACT OR THE ACT: The federal water pollution control act, also known as the clean water act, as amended 1 .
APPROVAL AUTHORITY: The Idaho department of health and welfare, division of environment.
AUTHORIZED REPRESENTATIVE OF INDUSTRIAL USER: An authorized representative of an industrial user may be: a) a principal executive officer of at least the level of vice president, if the industrial user is a corporation; b) a general partner or proprietor if the industrial user is a partnership or proprietorship, respectively; c) a duly authorized representative of the individual designated above if such representative is responsible for the overall operation of the facilities from which the indirect discharge originates.
BIOCHEMICAL OXYGEN DEMAND (BOD): The quantity of oxygen utilized in the biochemical oxidation of organic matter under standard laboratory procedure, five (5) days at twenty degrees centigrade (20°C) expressed in terms of weight and concentration (milligrams per liter [mg/l]).
BUILDING SEWER: A sewer conveying wastewater from the premises of a user to the county airport wastewater collection system and Hayden area regional sewage treatment plant.
CHEMICAL OXYGEN DEMAND: The amount of oxygen, in parts per million, consumed under specified conditions in the oxidation of organic and oxidizable inorganic matter in wastewater, corrected for the influence of chlorides.
COOLING WATER: The water discharged from any use such as air conditioning, cooling or refrigeration, or to which the only pollutant added is heat.
COUNTY: The county of Kootenai, acting through its board of county commissioners.
DIRECT DISCHARGE: The discharge of treated or untreated wastewater directly to the waters of the state of Idaho.
DOMESTIC DISCHARGER: Any person who discharges only human wastes including the typical flow from the bathroom, noncommercial laundry and kitchen, together with such ground water and surface water as may be present.
DOMESTIC WASTEWATER: Sewage, sanitary sewage, water carried waste from residences, business buildings, institutions and industrial establishments which includes the typical flow from the bathroom, noncommercial laundry and kitchen, together with such ground water and surface water as may be present.
ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION AGENCY OR 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.
GRAB SAMPLE: A sample which is taken from a waste stream on a one time basis with no regard to the flow in the waste stream and without consideration of time.
HOLDING TANK WASTE: Any waste from holding tanks such as vessels, chemical toilets, campers, trailers, septic tanks and vacuum pump tank trucks.
INDIRECT DISCHARGE: The discharge or the introduction of nondomestic pollutants from any source regulated under section 307(b) or (c) of the act 2 , into the POTW (including holding tank waste discharged into the system).
INDUSTRIAL DISCHARGER: Any user who discharges other than domestic wastewater into the POTW by means of pipes, conduits, pumping stations, force mains, constructed drainage ditches, surface water intercepting ditches and all constructed devices and appliances appurtenant thereto. This includes significant industrial discharges.
INDUSTRIAL WASTE: Any solid, liquid or gaseous waste, except sewage, which results from any industrial, manufacturing, trade or business process or from the development, recovery or processing of natural resources.
INTERFERENCE: Inhibition or disruption of the POTW treatment processes or operations. Inhibition or disruption of the POTW treatment processes or operations which contributes to a violation of any requirement of any NPDES permit issued to the Hayden area regional sewage treatment plant (POTW). The term includes prevention of sewage sludge use or disposal by the POTW in accordance with section 405 of the act 3 , or any criteria, guidelines or regulations developed pursuant to the solid waste disposal act (SWDA), the clean air act, the toxic substances control act, or more stringent state criteria (including those contained in any state sludge management plan prepared pursuant to title IV of SWDA) applicable to the method of disposal or use employed by the POTW.
NATIONAL CATEGORICAL PRETREATMENT STANDARD OR PRETREATMENT STANDARD: Any regulation containing pollutant discharge limits promulgated by the EPA in accordance with section 307(b) and (c) of the act 4 which applies to a specific category of industrial users.
NATIONAL POLLUTION DISCHARGE ELIMINATION SYSTEM OR NPDES PERMIT: A permit issued pursuant to section 402 of the act 5 .
NATIONAL PROHIBITIVE DISCHARGE STANDARD OR PROHIBITIVE DISCHARGE STANDARD: Any regulation developed under the authority of 307(b) of the act and 40 CFR, section 403.5.
NEW SOURCE: Any source, the construction of which is commenced after the publication of proposed regulations prescribing a section 307(c) 6 categorical pretreatment standard which will be applicable to such source, if such standard is thereafter promulgated within one hundred twenty (120) days of proposal in the federal register. Where the standard is promulgated later than one hundred twenty (120) days after proposal, a new source means any source, the construction of which is commenced after the date of promulgation of the standard.
O&M: Operation and maintenance of the county airport wastewater collection system and Hayden area regional sewage treatment plant.
POTW TREATMENT PLANT: That portion of the POTW designed to provide treatment to wastewater.
PERSON: Any individual, partnership, copartnership, firm, company, corporation, association, joint stock company, trust, estate, governmental entity or any other legal entity, or their legal representatives, agents or assigns. The masculine gender shall include the feminine, the singular shall include the plural where indicated by the context.
pH: The logarithm (base 10) of the reciprocal of the concentration of hydrogen ions expressed in grains per liter of solution.
POLLUTANT: Any dredged spoil, solid waste, incinerator residue, sewage, garbage, sewage sludge, munitions, chemical wastes, biological materials, radioactive materials, heat, wrecked or discharged equipment, rock, sand, cellar dirt and industrial, municipal and agricultural waste discharged into water.
POLLUTION: The manmade or man induced alteration of the chemical, physical, biological and radiological integrity of water.
PRETREATMENT OR TREATMENT: The reduction of the amount of pollutants, the elimination of pollutants or the alteration of the nature of pollutant properties in wastewater to a less harmful state prior to or in lieu of discharging or otherwise introducing such pollutants into a POTW. The reduction or alteration can be obtained by physical, chemical or biological processes, or process changes other means, except as prohibited by 40 CFR section 403.6(d)
PROHIBITED DISCHARGES: Discharges specified in the national pretreatment standards as listed in appendix D herein.
PUBLICLY OWNED TREATMENT WORKS (POTW): Those treatment works which are owned jointly by the city of Hayden, Kootenai County and the Hayden Lake recreational water and sewer district. This definition includes any sewers under Kootenai County's jurisdiction that convey wastewater to the POTW, but does not include pipes, sewers or other conveyances not connected to a facility providing treatment. For the purposes of this chapter, POTW shall also include any sewers that convey wastewaters to the POTW from persons outside the county airport who are, by contract or agreement with the county users of the county airport wastewater collection system and Hayden area regional sewage treatment plant (POTW).
SHALL/MAY: Shall is mandatory; may is permissive.
SIGNIFICANT INDUSTRIAL USER: Any industrial user of the county airport wastewater collection system and Hayden area regional sewage treatment plant who: a) has a discharge flow of five thousand (5,000) gallons or more per average workday; or b) has a flow greater than five percent (5%) of the flow capacity or organic loading of the county airport wastewater collection system; or c) has in his wastes toxic pollutants as defined pursuant to section 307 of the act or Idaho statutes and rules; or d) is found by the Hayden area regional sewer board, Kootenai County, Idaho department of health and welfare, division of environment, or the U.S. environmental protection agency (EPA) to have significant impact, either singly or in combination with other contributing industries, on the wastewater treatment system, the quality of sludge, the system's effluent quality or air emissions generated by the system. This includes, but is not limited to, the following industries:
Auto laundry and car wash
Electroplating
Mechanical products manufacturing
Printing and publishing
SLUGLOAD: Any substance released in a discharge at a rate and/or concentration which causes interference to a POTW.
STANDARD INDUSTRIAL CLASSIFICATION (SIC): A classification pursuant of the standard industrial classification manual issued by the executive office of the president, office of management and budget, 1972.
STATE: The state of Idaho.
STORMWATER: Any flow occurring during or following any form of natural precipitation and resulting therefrom.
SUPERINTENDENT: The person designated by the Kootenai County board of commissioners and/or the regional sewer advisory board to supervise the operation of the POTW and who is charged with certain duties and responsibilities by this chapter, or his duly authorized representative.
SUSPENDED SOLIDS: The total suspended matter that floats on the surface of, or is suspended in, water, wastewater or other liquids, and which is removable by laboratory filtering.
TOXIC POLLUTANT: Any pollutant or combination of pollutants listed as toxic in regulations promulgated by the administrator of the environmental protection agency under the provision of CWA 307(a) or other acts.
USER: Any person who contributes, causes or permits the contribution of wastewater into the county airport wastewater collection system and Hayden area regional sewage treatment plant (POTW).
WASTEWATER: The liquid and water carried industrial or domestic wastes from dwellings, commercial buildings, industrial facilities and institutions, together with may be present, whether treated or untreated, which is contributed into or permitted to enter the POTW.
WASTEWATER CONTRIBUTION PERMIT: As set forth in section 4-4-5-2 of this chapter.
WATERS OF THE STATE: All streams, lakes, ponds, marshes, watercourses, waterways, wells, springs, reservoirs, aquifers, irrigation systems, drainage systems and all other bodies or accumulations of water, surface or underground, natural or artificial, public or private, which are contained within, flow through or border upon the state or any portion thereof. (Ord. 153, 5-3-1990)
Notes
| 1 | 1. 33 USC § 1251 et. seq. |
| 2 | 1. 33 USC § 1317. |
| 3 | 1. 33 USC § 1345. |
| 4 | 2. 33 USC § 1347. |
| 5 | 3. 33 USC § 1342. |
| 6 | 4. 33 USC § 1317. |