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, as amended by the Clean Water Act and the Water Quality Act of 1987 (33 U.S.C. 1251 et seq.).
APPLICABLE PRETREATMENT STANDARD. Any pretreatment standard or requirement (federal, state and/or local), with which users are required to comply.
AUTHORITY. The City of Lebanon.
AUTHORIZED REPRESENTATIVE. A president, secretary, treasurer, or vice president of a corporation in charge of a principle business function, or any other person who performs similar policy or decision-making functions for the corporation; or a general partner of proprietor if the industrial user is a partnership or sole proprietorship respectively. If the user is a Federal, State, or local government facility, a director or highest official appointed or designated to oversee the operation and performance of the activities of the government facility.
BEST MANAGEMENT PRACTICES (BMPs). Schedules of activities, prohibitions of practices, maintenance procedures, and other management practices. Also including treatment requirements, operating procedures, and practices to control plant site runoff, spillage or leaks, sludge or waste disposal, or drainage from raw materials storage, alternative means (i.e., management plans) of complying with, or in place of certain established categorical pretreatment standards and effluent limits.
BIOCHEMICAL OXYGEN DEMAND or BOD. The quantity of oxygen utilized in the biochemical oxidation of organic matter under standard laboratory procedure in five days at 20° C expressed in terms of weight and concentration. The oxygen demand measured is the sum of carbonaceous and nitrogenous demands. Laboratory procedures shall be in accordance with the latest edition of Standard Methods for the Examination of Water and Wastewater, as defined in this section.
BYPASS. The intentional diversion of waste-streams from any portion of the pretreatment treatment facility.
CATEGORICAL PRETREATMENT STANDARD. Same as NATIONAL CATEGORICAL PRETREATMENT STANDARD. Any regulation containing pollutant discharge limits promulgated by EPA in accordance with Sections 307(b) and (c) of the Act (33 U.S.C. 1317) which apply to a specific category of users and which appear in 40 CFR Chapter I, Subchapter N, Parts 405-471.
CATEGORICAL USER. Any industrial user specific to the category of users found in 40 CFR Chapter I, Subchapter N, Parts 405-471.
CFR. Code of Federal Regulations.
CFR. Code of Federal Regulations.
CATEGORICAL PRETREATMENT STANDARD. Same as NATIONAL CATEGORICAL PRETREATMENT STANDARD. Any regulation containing pollutant discharge limits promulgated by EPA in accordance with Sections 307(b) and (c) of the Act (33 U.S.C. 1317) which apply to a specific category of users and which appear in 40 CFR Chapter I, Subchapter N, Parts 405-471.
DIRECTOR. Director of Water and Wastewater operations.
DISCHARGER. Same as INDUSTRIAL USER.
INDIRECT DISCHARGE or DISCHARGE. The introduction of pollutants into the publicly owned treatment works from a non-domestic source regulated under 307(b), (c) or (d) of the Act.
INDUSTRIAL USER or USER. Any non- residential user who discharges into the POTW.
INDUSTRIAL WASTE. Any substance resulting from any process of industrial, commercial, governmental and institutional concerns, manufacturing, business, trade, or research, including the development, recovery, or processing of natural resources, or from sources other than those generating waste defined as normal domestic sewage herein.
INSTANTANEOUS MAXIMUM ALLOWABLE DISCHARGE LIMIT. The maximum concentration of a pollutant allowed to be discharged at any time, determined from the analysis of any discrete or composited sample collected, independent of the industrial flow rate and the duration of the sampling event.
INTERFERENCE. A discharge which, alone or in conjunction with a discharge or, discharges from other sources, inhibits or disrupts the POTW, its treatment processes or operations, or its sludge processes, use or disposal; and, therefore is a cause of a violation of any requirement of the POTW's NPDES Permit (including an increase in the magnitude or duration of a violation) or of the prevention of sewage sludge use or disposal.
LAW DIRECTOR. The Director of Law of the city, or his or her authorized deputy, agent, or representative.
MEDICAL WASTES. Isolation wastes, infectious agents, human blood and blood products, pathological wastes, sharps, body parts, contaminated bedding, surgical wastes, potentially contaminated laboratory wastes, and dialysis wastes.
NATIONAL CATEGORICAL PRE-TREATMENT STANDARD or CATEGORICAL PRETREATMENT STANDARD. Any regulation containing pollutant discharge limits promulgated by the EPA in accordance with Section 307(b) and (c) of the Act (33 U.S.C. 1347) which applies to a specific category of industrial users.
NATIONAL POLLUTANT DISCHARGE ELIMINATION SYSTEM (NPDES) PERMIT. A permit issued by the State of Ohio EPA or United
States EPA pursuant to the Act for the purpose of regulating the discharge of sewage, industrial wastes, and other wastes under the authority of Section 402 of the Act, into the navigable waters of the United States.
NEW SOURCE. Any building, structure, facility or installation from which there is or may be a discharge of pollutants, the construction of which commenced after the publication of proposed pretreatment standards under Section 307(C) of the Act which will be applicable to such source if such standards are thereafter promulgated in accordance with that section, provided that: the building, structure, facility or installation is constructed at a site at which no other source is located; the building, structure, facility or installation totally replaces the process or production equipment that causes the discharge of pollutants at an existing source; or, the production or wastewater generating processes of the building, structure, facility or installation are substantially independent of an existing source at the same site.
NONCONTACT COOLING WATER. Water used for cooling which does not come into direct contact with any raw material, intermediate product, waste product, or finished product.
PASS THROUGH. A discharge which exits the POTW into waters of the United States in quantities or concentrations which, alone or in conjunction with a discharge or discharges from other sources, is a cause of a violation of any requirement of the POTW's NPDES permit (including an increase in the magnitude or duration of a violation).
PERSON. Any and all persons, natural or artificial, including any individual, firm, company, private corporation, partnership, co-partnership, joint stock company, trust, association, institution, enterprise, or other legal entity, or their 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 ten, of the reciprocal of the hydrogen concentration expressed in moles per liter.
PRETREATMENT. The process of reducing the amount of pollutants, eliminating pollutants, or altering the nature of pollutant properties in wastewater prior to introducing such pollutants into the city's wastewater disposal system. The reduction, elimination, or alteration may be obtained by physical, chemical, or biological processes, process changes or other means, except as prohibited by this chapter.
PRETREATMENT REQUIREMENTS. Any substantive or procedural requirement related to pretreatment imposed on the user, other than a pretreatment standard.
PUBLICLY OWNED TREATMENT WORKS or POTW. Treatment works which are owned by the city, including the sanitary sewers, pumping stations, wastewater treatment facility, and any related appurtenances.
SANITARY SEWER. Any pipe, conduit, or other device used to collect and transport sewage from the generating source including combined sewers. This shall include public sanitary sewer mains and private sanitary sewer laterals.
SEPTIC TANK WASTE. Any sewage from holding tanks such as vessels, chemical toilets, campers, trailers, and septic tanks.
SEWER. Any pipe, conduit, ditch or other device used to collect and/or transport sewage
SIGNIFICANT INDUSTRIAL USER or SIU. Includes the following: all industrial users subject to categorical pretreatment standards; and any other industrial user that: discharges an average of 25,000 gallons per day or more of process wastewater to the POTW: contributes a process wastestream which makes up five percent or more of the average dry weather hydraulic or organic capacity of the POTW treatment plant: or has a reasonable potential, in the
opinion of the city, to adversely affect the POTW's operation or for violating any pretreatment standard or requirement.
SLUDGE. Any solid, semi-solid, or liquid waste generated by a municipal, commercial, or industrial wastewater treatment plant, water supply treatment plant, or air pollution control facility or any other waste having similar characteristics and effects.
SLUGLOAD. Any pollutant, including oxygen demanding pollutants (BOD, etc.) released in a discharge at a flow rate and/or pollutant concentration which will cause interference with or pass through the POTW.
STORM WATER. Any flow occurring during or following any form of natural precipitation, and resulting from such precipitation including snowmelt.
SUSPENDED SOLIDS. Solids that either float on the surface of, or are in suspension or will settle in water, sewage, or industrial waste, and which are removable by a laboratory filtration device. Quantitative determination of suspended solids shall be made in accordance with procedures set forth in standard methods.
UPSET. An exceptional incident in which a discharger unintentionally and temporarily is in a state of noncompliance with pretreatment standards due to factors beyond the reasonable control of the discharger, and excluding noncompliance to the extent caused by operational error, improperly designed treatment facilities, inadequate treatment facilities, lack of preventive maintenance, or careless or improper operation thereof.
USER. Same as INDUSTRIAL USER.
WASTEWATER. Liquid and water-carried industrial wastes and sewage from residential dwellings, commercial buildings, industrial and manufacturing facilities, and institutions, whether treated or untreated, which are contributed to the POTW.
WASTEWATER DISCHARGE PERMIT or INDUSTRIAL DISCHARGE PERMIT. A formal permit to discharge industrial waste into the POTW, as issued by the city.
WASTEWATER TREATMENT PLANT OR TREATMENT PLANT. That portion of the POTW which is designed to provide treatment of municipal sewage and industrial waste.
(Ord. 8623, passed 1-14-03; Am. Ord. 9622, passed 11-27-07; Am. Ord. 2023-002, passed 1-10- 23)