Except as provided herein, the definitions contained in 40 C.F.R. § 401.11 and 40 C.F.R. § 403.3, as amended, shall be applicable in this subchapter and are hereby incorporated by reference. For the purpose of this subchapter, the following definitions shall apply unless the context clearly indicates or requires a different meaning.
COUNCIL. The Town Council of Millersburg, Indiana, or any duly authorized officials or representatives acting in its behalf.
BUILDING DRAIN. The lowest horizontal piping of a building drainage system which receives the discharge of sewage from drainage pipes inside the walls of the building and conveys it to a point approximately five feet outside the foundation wall of the building.
BUILDING SEWER. The extension from the building drain to the public sanitary sewer, private sewage disposal system or other place of disposal.
COMPOSITE SAMPLE. A minimum of four grab samples or aliquots, collected over the period of the work day. The aliquots may be uniform aliquots withdrawn at uniform flow intervals or flow-proportional aliquots withdrawn at uniform time intervals.
GARBAGE. Any solid wastes from the preparation, cooking or dispensing of food and from the handling, storage or sale of produce.
GRAB SAMPLE. An individual sample collected over a period of time not to exceed 15 minutes.
IDEM. The Indiana Department of Environmental Management.
INSPECTOR. The person or persons duly authorized by the town, through its Town Council, to inspect and approve the installation of building sewers and their connection to the public sanitary sewer system.
INTERFERENCE. A discharge into the public sanitary sewer system which, alone or in conjunction with a discharge or discharges from other sources, does one or more of the following:
(1) Inhibits or disrupts the sewage works, its treatment processes or operations or its sludge processes, use or disposal;
(2) Causes a violation of any requirement of the sewage works’ NPDES permit (including an increase in the magnitude or duration of a violation); or
(3) Prevents the use of the sewage work’s sludge use or disposal in compliance with the following statutory provisions and regulations or permits issued thereunder (or more stringent state or local regulations): § 405 of the Clean Water Act, being 33 U.S.C. § 1345; the Solid Waste Disposal Act (SWDA), being 42 U.S.C. §§ 6901 et seq. (including Title II commonly referred to as the Resource Conservation and Recovery Act (RCRA), and including state regulations contained in any state sludge management plan prepared pursuant to Subtitle D of the Solid Waste Disposal Act being 42 U.S.C. §§ 6941 et seq.); the Clean Air Act, being 42 U.S.C. §§ 7401 et seq.; and the Toxic Substances Control Act, being 15 U.S.C. §§ 2601 et seq.
NPDES PERMIT. A national pollutant discharge elimination system permit setting forth conditions and limitations for the discharge of any pollutant or combination of pollutants to the navigable waters of the United States pursuant to the Federal Water Pollution Control Act, being 33 U.S.C. §§ 1251 et seq.
NATURAL OUTLET. Any outlet into a watercourse, pond, ditch, lake or other body of surface or ground water.
PASS THROUGH. A discharge into the public sanitary sewer system which exits the sewage works 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 sewage works 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, municipal or private corporation, partnership, copartnership, limited partnership, limited liability partnership, limited liability company, joint stock company, trust, estate, association, society, institution, enterprise, governmental agency, the state and political subdivisions thereof, the United States of America or other legal entity, or their legal representatives, agents or assigns. The masculine gender shall include the feminine and the singular shall include the plural where indicated by the context.
pH. The reciprocal of the logarithm of the hydrogen ion concentration. The concentration is the weight of hydrogen ions, in grams per liter of solution.
POLLUTANT. Dredged soil, solid waste, incinerator residue, sewage, garbage, sewage sludge, munitions, chemical wastes, biological materials, radioactive materials, heat, wrecked or discarded equipment, rock, sand, cellar dirt and industrial, municipal and agricultural waste discarded into water.
PRETREATMENT. 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 the sewage works. The reduction or alteration can be obtained by physical, chemical or biological processes, process changes or by other means, except as prohibited by 40 C.F.R. § 403.6(d), as amended. PRETREATMENT is subject to all applicable rules and regulations contained in the Code of Federal Regulations, as published in the Federal Register under regulation 40 C.F.R. part 403, as amended.
PRIVATE SEWER. A sewer which is not owned by public authority.
PROCESS WASTEWATER. Any water which, during manufacturing, processing or clean-up comes into direct contact with or results from the production or use of any raw material, intermediate product, finished product, by-product or waste product.
PROPERLY SHREDDED GARBAGE. The wastes from the preparation, cooking and dispensing of food that has been shredded to such a degree that all particles will be carried freely under the flow conditions normally prevailing in public sanitary sewers, with no particle greater than one-half inch in any dimension.
PUBLIC SANITARY SEWER. A sanitary sewer which is owned and controlled by the public authority and will consist of the following increments.
(1) COLLECTOR SEWER. A sanitary sewer whose primary purpose is to collect wastewater from individual point source discharges.
(2) FORCE MAIN. A sanitary sewer in which wastewater is carried under pressure.
(3) INTERCEPTOR SEWER. A sanitary sewer whose primary purpose is to transport wastewater from collector sewers to a treatment facility.
(4) PUMPING STATION. A station positioned in the public sanitary sewer system at which wastewater is collected and pumped to a higher level.
SANITARY SEWER. A sewer which carries sanitary sewage and to which storm, surface and ground water and other unpolluted water are not intentionally admitted.
SEWAGE. The combination of the liquid and water-carried wastes from residences, commercial buildings, industrial plants and institutions (including polluted cooling water). The two most common types of SEWAGE are as follows.
(1) INDUSTRIAL SEWAGE. The combination of liquid and water-carried wastes which is discharged from any commercial or industrial establishment resulting from any trade or process carried on in that establishment. (This shall include process wastewater, the wastes from pretreatment facilities and polluted cooling water.) INDUSTRIAL SEWAGE excludes unpolluted water and waste which contains exclusively sanitary sewage.
(2) SANITARY SEWAGE. The combination of liquid and water-carried wastes discharged from toilets, lavatories, kitchens and other sanitary waste producing facilities typically associated with domestic uses.
SEWAGE WORKS. The public sanitary sewers, structures, equipment and processes to collect, transport and treat sewage and dispose of the effluent and accumulated residual solids.
SEWER. A pipe or conduit for carrying sewage.
SHALL. Mandatory; MAY is permissive.
SIGNIFICANT INDUSTRIAL USER.
(1) All industrial users subject to categorical pretreatment standards under 40 C.F.R. § 403.6 and 40 C.F.R. Ch. I, Subch. N; and
(2) Any other industrial user that:
(a) Discharges an average of 25,000 gallons per day or more of process wastewater to the sewage works (excluding sanitary, non-contact cooling and boiler blowdown wastewater);
(b) Contributes a process wastestream which makes up 5% or more of the average dry weather hydraulic or organic capacity of the sewage treatment plant; or
(c) Is designated as such by the control authority as defined in 40 C.F.R. § 403.3(f) on the basis that the industrial user has a reasonable potential for adversely affecting the sewage works operation, the quality of biosolids such that it may negatively impact land application or for violating any pretreatment standard or requirement (in accordance with 40 C.F.R. § 403.8(f)(6)).
SLUG. Any discharge of a non-routine, episodic nature, including, but not limited to, an accidental spill or a non-customary batch discharge, of sewage or wastewater which in concentration of any given constituent or in quantity of flow has a reasonable potential to cause interference or pass through, or in any other way violate the requirements of this subchapter.
STORM SEWER. A pipe or conduit for conveying storm, surface and ground water or other unpolluted water from any source and to which sanitary sewage and industrial sewage are not intentionally admitted.
SUPERINTENDENT. The Superintendent of the municipal sewage works of the Town of Millersburg, Indiana, or his or her authorized deputy, agent or representative.
SUSPENDED SOLIDS. Solids which either float on the surface of or are in suspension in water, sewage or other liquid and which are removable by laboratory filtration. Their concentration shall be expressed in milligrams/liter.
TOWN. The Town of Millersburg, Indiana.
UNPOLLUTED WATER. Water of quality equal to or better than the effluent criteria in effect, or water that would not cause violation of receiving water quality standards, and would not be benefitted by discharge to the sanitary sewers and wastewater treatment facilities provided.
U.S. EPA. The United States Environmental Protection Agency.
USER. A person who discharges any pollutant, sewage, process wastewater or wastewater into the sewage works. The term includes both the owner and occupant of real estate that is the source of a discharge into the sewage works.
WASTEWATER. Water in which sewage has been discharged.
WATERCOURSE. A natural or artificial channel for the passage of water either continuously or intermittently.