For the purposes of this article, the following words and phrases will have the meanings set forth this section. Words and phrases not defined in this section or elsewhere in this article will have the meanings set forth in the regulations implementing the NPDES, Clean Water Act Section 402, and Division 7 of the California Water Code, as they may be amended from time to time, and if not defined in such laws, then the applicable definitions in the municipal storm water permit will apply.
(A) BASIN PLAN - The Water Quality Control Plan for Coastal Watersheds of Los Angeles and Ventura Counties, adopted by the regional board on June 13, 1994, as amended from time to time.
(B) BEST MANAGEMENT PRACTICES (“BMPs”) - Measures, practices, and procedures to prevent or reduce, to the maximum extent that is technologically and economically feasible, the discharge of pollutants to the city’s storm drain system and receiving waters. A BMP may consist of a structural BMP, source control BMP, treatment control BMP, or any other BMP promulgated by the California Stormwater Quality Association (CASQA), California Department of Transportation (Caltrans), or approved by the director for the purpose of controlling or eliminating storm water pollution.
(C) CHANNEL - An open conduit either naturally or artificially created that periodically or continuously contains moving water, or which forms a connecting link between two waterbodies.
(D) CONSTRUCTION ACTIVITY - Any construction or demolition activity, clearing, grading, grubbing, or excavation or any other activity that results in a land disturbance. Construction activity does not include emergency construction activities required to immediately protect public health and safety or routine maintenance activities required to maintain the integrity of structures by performing minor repair and restoration work, maintain original line and grade, hydraulic capacity, or original purpose of the facility.
(E) CONTAMINATION - An impairment of the quality of waters of the State by waste to a degree that creates a hazard to the public health through poisoning or spread of disease. Contamination also includes any equivalent effect resulting from the disposal of waste, whether or not waters of the State are affected.
(F) CRITICAL SOURCE FACILITIES - Those commercial or industrial facilities or businesses that have a potential to contribute pollutants to storm water runoff and are listed in Part 4.D and Attachment D of the municipal storm water permit.
(G) DECHLORINATED/DEBROMINATED SWIMMING POOL DISCHARGE - Any swimming pool discharge with a residual chlorine or bromine level of 0.1 mg/L or less; and that does not contain any detergents, wastes, algaecides, or cyanuric acid in excess of 50 ppm, or any other chemicals including salts from pools commonly referred to as “salt water pools”. The term does not include swimming pool filter backwash or swimming pool water containing bacteria.
(H) DEVELOPMENT - Any construction, rehabilitation, redevelopment or reconstruction for which either discretionary land use approval or a permit is required, for any public or private residential (whether single-family, multi-unit or planned unit development); industrial; commercial; retail; institutional; and other non-residential projects, including public agency projects; or mass grading for future construction.
(I) DIRECTOR - The public works director or designee.
(J) DISCHARGE - When used without qualification, the discharge of a pollutant.
(K) DISCHARGE OF A POLLUTANT - Any addition of any pollutant to waters of the United States, to the city’s storm drain system, or any addition of any pollutant to waters of the contiguous zone from any point source other than a vessel or other floating craft which is being used as a means of transportation.
(L) DISCHARGER - Any person causing a discharge.
(M) EPA - The Environmental Protection Agency of the United States of America.
(N) ENVIRONMENT - The physical conditions that exist within the area and that will be affected by a proposed project. The environment means both naturally occurring and man-made conditions. The area involved will be the area in which significant effects would occur, either directly or indirectly, as a result of the project.
(O) HAZARDOUS SUBSTANCES - Those substances designated as hazardous substances under Section 311(b)(2)(A) of the Clean Water Act, which are listed in the table at 40 CFR Section 116.4, and other applicable law.
(P) HEARING OFFICER - The director, who will preside at the administrative hearings authorized by this article and issue final decisions on matters raised in such hearings.
(Q) ILLICIT CONNECTION - Any engineered conveyance that is connected to the storm drain system, without a permit, through or by which an illicit discharge may occur.
(R) ILLICIT DISCHARGE - Any discharge to the storm drain system that is prohibited under local, State, or federal statutes, ordinances, codes, or regulations. The term illicit discharge includes all non-storm water discharges not composed entirely of storm water except discharges pursuant to a NPDES permit and discharges which are exempt or conditionally exempt in accordance with any applicable order of the regional board or authorized by the regional board executive officer.
(S) INVOICE FOR COSTS - An invoice for the actual costs and expenses of the city, including, but not limited to administrative overhead, salaries, attorney fees and other expenses recoverable under applicable law, incurred during any inspection, investigation or proceeding conducted pursuant to this article, where a notice of violation or other enforcement remedy under this article is used to obtain compliance with this article.
(T) MAXIMUM EXTENT PRACTICABLE - The level of pollutant control that is derived from available technology or other controls at the maximum level that is practicable. Pollution prevention and source control BMPs in combination with structural and treatment methods where appropriate are emphasized to achieve compliance. The maximum extent practicable approach is an ever evolving and advancing concept that considers technical and economic feasibility.
(U) MUNICIPAL SEPARATE STORM SEWER SYSTEM (“MS4”) or STORM DRAIN SYSTEM - A conveyance or system of conveyances, including roads with drainage systems, municipal streets, catch basins, curbs, gutters, ditches, man-made channels, or storm drains, as defined in 40 CFR Section 122.26(b)(8): (1) owned or operated by the city; (2) designed or used for collecting or conveying storm water; (3) which is not a combined sewer; and (4) which is not part of a publicly owned treatment works, as defined in 40 CFR Section 122.2.
(V) MUNICIPAL STORM WATER PERMIT - NPDES Permit No. CAS004002 Waste Discharge Requirements for Storm Water (Wet Weather) and Non-Storm Water (Dry Weather) Discharges from the Municipal Separate Storm Sewer Systems within the Ventura County Watershed Protection District, County of Ventura, and the Incorporated Cities Therein (Regional Board Order R4-2010-0108), as amended from time to time.
(W) NATIONAL POLLUTANT DISCHARGE ELIMINATION SYSTEM (“NPDES”) PERMIT - A permit issued under the CWA, including a State general permit and the municipal storm water permit issued by the regional board.
(X) NEW DEVELOPMENT - Land disturbing activities, structural development, construction or installation of a building structure, creation and replacement of impervious surfaces, and land subdivision.
(Y) NON-STORM WATER DISCHARGE - Any discharge to the storm drain system that is not composed entirely of storm water.
(Z) POINT SOURCE - Any discernible, confined, and discrete conveyance, including, but not limited to, any pipe, ditch, channel, tunnel, conduit, well, discrete fissure, container, rolling stock, concentrated animal feeding operation, or vessel or other floating craft, from which pollutants are or may be discharged. This term does not include agricultural storm water discharges and return flows from irrigated agriculture.
(AA) POLLUTANT - As defined in CWA section 502(6), 33 U.S.C. section 1362(6), and incorporated by reference into California Water Code section 13373, or other applicable law, which is discharged into water.
(BB) POLLUTION - The man-made or man-induced alteration of the chemical, physical, biological and radiological integrity of water. Pollution also means an alteration of the quality of waters of the State by waste to a degree that unreasonably affects, or has the potential to unreasonably affect, either the waters for beneficial uses or the facilities which serve these beneficial uses.
(CC) POST-CONSTRUCTION STORM WATER MANAGEMENT PLAN (PCSMP) - A plan that defines the strategy and describes the design, placement and implementation of storm water retention and storm water treatment BMPs to effectively prevent non-storm water discharges and reduce pollutants in storm water discharges to the maximum extent practicable, for post-construction urban runoff to the storm drain system.
(DD) POTABLE WATER SOURCES - The potable water system for the treatment, distribution, and provision of water for residential, commercial, industrial, or institutional use that meets all California safe drinking water regulatory standards for human consumption.
(EE) RECEIVING WATERS - All surface water bodies identified in the basin plan.
(FF) REDEVELOPMENT - Land-disturbing activity that results in the creation, addition or replacement of 5,000 square feet or more of impervious surface area on an already developed site as defined in the municipal storm water permit. Redevelopment includes, but is not limited to: the expansion of a building footprint; addition or replacement of a structure; replacement of impervious surface area that is not part of a routine maintenance activity; and land disturbing activities related to structural or impervious surfaces. For an existing single-family dwelling and accessory structures, redevelopment means projects that create, add, or replace 10,000 square feet of impervious area. Redevelopment does not include routine maintenance to maintain original line and grade, hydraulic capacity, or original purpose of the facility, nor does it include emergency construction activities required to immediately protect public health and safety.
(GG) REGIONAL BOARD - The California Regional Water Quality Control Board, Los Angeles Region.
(HH) RESPONSIBLE PERSON - The person(s) identified in and responsible for compliance with the provisions of a SWPPP, SWPCP, or PCSMP.
(II) SOURCE CONTROL BMP - Any schedule of activities, prohibitions of practices, maintenance procedures, managerial practices or operational practices that aim to prevent storm water pollution by reducing the potential for contamination at the source of pollution.
(JJ) STATE BOARD - The California State Water Resources Control Board.
(KK) STATE GENERAL PERMIT - A permit issued by the State board or the regional board pursuant to 40 CFR Sections 122 and 123 to regulate a category of point sources. The term State general permit includes, but is not limited to, the general permit for storm water discharges associated with construction activity and the general industrial activities storm water permit and the terms and requirements of both. In the event the EPA revokes the in-lieu permitting, authority of the State board, then the term State general permit will also refer to any EPA administered storm water control program for industrial, construction, and any other category of activities.
(LL) STORM WATER - Any surface flow, runoff, and/or drainage associated with rain storm events and/or snow melt, as defined in 40 CFR Section 122.26(b)(13).
(MM) STORM WATER POLLUTION CONTROL PLAN (SWPCP) - A plan or equivalent form, as required by the municipal storm water permit or by the director, identifying potential pollutant sources from a construction site with less than one acre of soil disturbance and describing proposed design, placement and implementation of BMPs, to effectively prevent non-storm water discharges and reduce pollutants in storm water discharges to the storm drain system, to the maximum extent practicable, during construction activities.
(NN) STORM WATER POLLUTION PREVENTION PLAN (SWPPP) - A plan, as required by a State general permit, identifying potential pollutant sources and describing the design, placement and implementation of BMPs, to effectively prevent non-storm water discharges and reduce pollutants in storm water discharges during activities covered by the State general permit.
(OO) STRUCTURAL BMP - Any structural facility designed and constructed to mitigate the adverse impacts of storm water runoff pollution.
(PP) TREATMENT - The application of engineered systems that use physical, chemical, or biological processes to remove pollutants.
(QQ) TREATMENT CONTROL BMP - Any engineered system designed to remove pollutants by simple gravity settling of particulate pollutants, filtration, biological uptake, media absorption or any other physical, biological, or chemical process.
(RR) VENTURA COUNTY TECHNICAL GUIDANCE MANUAL FOR STORM WATER QUALITY CONTROL MEASURES or TECHNICAL GUIDANCE MANUAL - The county technical guidance manual for storm water quality measures required by the municipal storm water permit, as amended from time to time.
(SS) WASTE - Sewage and any and all other waste substances, liquid, solid, gaseous, or radioactive, associated with human habitation, or of human or animal origin, or from any producing, manufacturing, or processing operation, including waste placed within containers of whatever nature prior to, and for purposes of, disposal.
(TT) WATERCOURSE - Any natural or artificial channel for passage of water.
(UU) WATERS OF THE STATE - Any surface water or groundwater, including saline waters, within the boundaries of the State of California.
(VV) WATERS OF THE UNITED STATES - Bodies of water as defined in 40 CFR Section 122.2.
(WW) WET SEASON - The calendar period from October 1 through April 15.
(Ord. No. 2459, 2876)