For the purpose of this chapter, the following definitions shall apply unless the context clearly indicates or requires a different meaning.
BEST MANAGEMENT PRACTICE (BMP). 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 directly or indirectly to storm water, receiving waters, or storm water conveyance systems. 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. Please refer to the City of Lebanon's Land Development Design and Construction Standards Manual.
CHANNEL. Any natural or artificial watercourse with a definite bed and banks.
CLEAN WATER ACT. The federal Water Pollution Control Act (33 U.S.C. §§ 1251 et seq.), and any subsequent amendments thereto.
DRAINAGE. The removal of excess surface water or groundwater from land by surface or subsurface drains.
ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION AGENCY. The United States Environmental Protection Agency,
including but not limited to the Ohio Environmental Protection Agency (Ohio EPA) or any duly authorized official of said agency.
FLOATABLE MATERIALS. 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 MATERIALS. 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, property, or the environment when improperly treated, stored, transported, disposed of, or otherwise managed.
HOUSEHOLD SEWAGE TREATMENT SYSTEM (HSTS). A system designed to treat household sewage on-site and discharges treated wastewater effluent off the property into a storm water or surface water conveyance or system.
ILLICIT CONNECTION. Any drain or conveyance, whether on the surface or subsurface, which allows an illegal discharge to enter the MS4, including but not limited to, any conveyances which allow any non-storm water discharge including sewage, process wastewater, and wash water to enter the MS4.
ILLICIT DISCHARGE. Any discharge to the storm water system not composed entirely of storm water except the following: water line flushing, landscape irrigation, diverted stream flows, rising ground waters, uncontaminated ground water infiltration (as defined at 40 CFR 35.2005(b)(20)), uncontaminated pumped ground water, discharges from potable water sources, foundation drains, air conditioning condensation, irrigation water, springs, water from crawl space pumps, footing drains, lawn watering, individual car washing, charity car wash events, flows from riparian habitats and wetlands,
dechlorinated swimming pool discharges, street wash water, home sewer treatment systems that discharge in accordance with Warren County Combined Health District Codes and permits, and discharges or flows from firefighting activities.
INDUSTRIAL ACTIVITY. Activities subject to NPDES industrial permits as defined in 40 CFR 122.26(b)(14).
MAINTENANCE COVENANT. A formal contract between a local government and a property owner designed to guarantee that specific maintenance functions are performed.
MUNICIPAL SEPARATE STORM SEWER SYSTEM (MS4). As defined at 40 CFR 122.26(b)(8), means a conveyance or system of conveyances (including roads with drainage systems, municipal streets, catch basins, curbs, gutters, ditches, man-made channels, or storm drains) that is: owned or operated by a state, county, town, borough, parish, district, municipality, township, 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 that discharges to waters of the United States; designed or used for collecting or conveying storm water; which is not a combined sewer; and which is not part of a Publicly Owned Treatment Works (POTW) as defined at 40 CFR 122.2.
NON-STORM WATER DISCHARGE. Any discharge to the storm drain system that is not composed entirely of storm water.
NPDES. National Pollutant Discharge Elimination System. A regulatory program in the federal Clean Water Act that prohibits the discharge of pollutants into surface waters of the United States without a permit.
OWNER/OPERATOR. 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.
PERSON. Any individual, corporation, firm, trust, commission, board, public or private partnership, joint venture, agency, unincorporated association, municipal corporation, county or state agency, the federal government, other legal entity, or an agent thereof.
POLLUTANT. Anything which causes or contributes to pollution. POLLUTANTS may include, but are not limited to: paints, varnishes, and solvents; oil and other automotive fluids; nonhazardous liquid and solid wastes and yard wastes; refuse, rubbish, garbage, litter, or other discarded or abandoned objects, articles, and accumulations, so that same may cause or contribute to pollution; floatables; pesticides, herbicides, and fertilizers; hazardous substances and wastes; sewage, fecal coliform and pathogens; dissolved and particulate metals; animal wastes; wastes and residues that result from constructing a building or structure (including but not limited to sediments, slurries, and concrete rinsates); and noxious or offensive matter of any kind.
POLLUTION. The human-made or human-induced alteration of the quality of waters by waste to a degree which unreasonably affects, or has the potential to unreasonably affect, either the waters for beneficial uses or the facilities which serve these beneficial uses.
PREMISES. Any building, lot, parcel of land, or portion of land, whether improved or unimproved, including adjacent sidewalks and parking strips.
RUNOFF. The portion of rainfall, melted snow, or irrigation water that flows across the ground surface and is eventually conveyed to water resources or wetlands.
SEDIMENT. The soils or other surface materials that are transported or deposited by the action of wind, water, ice, gravity, or any combination of those forces, as a product of erosion.
SEDIMENTATION. The deposition or settling of sediment.
STORM DRAIN SYSTEM. Publicly or privately owned facilities by which storm water is collected and/or conveyed, including but not limited to any roads with drainage systems, public or private streets, gutters, curbs, inlets, piped storm drains, pumping facilities, retention and detention basins, natural and human-made or altered drainage channels, reservoirs, and other drainage structures which are within the city or are outside of the city but convey storm water into the city and are not part of a publicly owned treatment works as defined at 40 CFR 122.2 .
STORM WATER. Any surface flow, runoff, and drainage consisting entirely of water from any form of natural precipitation and resulting from such precipitation.
STORMWATER MANAGEMENT PLAN. The technical and policy manuals, plans, regulations and/or calculations, and any subsequent updates or amendments thereto, used by the City Engineer to administer the storm water regulations.
WASTEWATER. Any water or other liquid, other than uncontaminated storm water, discharged from a facility.
WATERS OF THE STATE OF OHIO. All streams, lakes, reservoirs, marshes, wetlands, or other waterways situated wholly or partly within the boundaries of the state, except those private waters which do not combine or affect a junction with surface water. Waters defined as sewerage systems, treatment works or disposal systems in R.C. § 6111.01 are not included.
WATERS OF THE UNITED STATES. Surface watercourses and water bodies as defined at 40 CFR 122.2, including all natural waterways and definite channels and depressions in the earth that may carry water, even though such waterways may only carry water during rains and storms and may not carry storm water at and during all times and seasons.
(Ord. 2022-031, passed 3-22-22)