The words and terms used in this chapter, unless otherwise expressly stated, shall have the following meaning:
(a) "Best management practices" 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, including treatment practices, operating procedures and practices to control site runoff, spillage or leaks, sludge or water disposal, or drainage from raw materials storage.
(b) "City" means the govemment of the City of Lakewood and its designated representatives, boards or commissions.
(c) "EPA" means either the United States Environmental Protection Agency or the Ohio Environmental Protection Agency, or any duly authorized official of either agency.
(d) "Floatable materials" means, generally, 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.
(e) "Hazardous materials" 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 or property, or to the environment, when improperly treated, stored, transported, disposed of or otherwise managed.
(f) "Illicit discharge" shall have the same defmition as that term is defined in 40 C.P.R. 122.26(b )(2), except it shall not include discharges permitted by Section 917.07 of this chapter.
(g) "Illegal connection" means any drain or conveyance which on the surface or subsurface allows an illicit discharge to enter the municipal separate storm sewer system.
(h) "Municipal separate storm sewer system” or "MS4/” shall have the same definition as that term is defined in 40 C.P.R. 122.26(b)(8).
(i) "Owner or operator”, means any individual, association, organization, partnership, firm, corporation or other entity recognized by law and acting either as the owner or on the owner's behalf.
(j) "Pollutant" means anything that causes or contributes to pollution. Pollutants may include, but are not limited to, paints, varnished, 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.
(k) "Storm water” any surface flow, runoff, and drainage consisting entirely of water from any form of natural precipitation, and resulting from such precipitation.
(Ord. 28-13. Passed 10-21-2013.)