For the purpose of this subchapter, the following definitions shall apply unless the context clearly indicates or requires a different meaning.
ACT. The Federal Water Pollution Control Act, Pub. Law No. 92-500, as amended by the Clean Water Act of 1977, Pub. Law No. 95-217, being 33 U.S.C. §§ 1251 et seq.
APPLICABLE PRETREATMENT STANDARD. Any pretreatment limit or prohibitive standard (federal, state and/or local) contained in this subchapter and considered to be the most restrictive with which non-domestic users will be required to comply.
APPROVAL AUTHORITY. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) Region Five Administrator or his or her designated representative.
AUTHORITY. The Town Council.
AUTHORIZED REPRESENTATIVE OF INDUSTRIAL USER. May be: A principal executive officer of at least the level of vice president, if the industrial user is a corporation; a general partner or proprietor if the industrial user is a partnership or proprietorship, respectively; or a duly authorized representative of the individual designated above if such representative is responsible for the overall operation of the facilities from which the discharge originates.
AVERAGE MONTHLY LIMITATION. The highest allowable average of daily discharges over a calendar month, calculated as the sum of all daily discharges measured divided by the number of daily discharges measured during that month. The number of daily discharges measured, by the industrial user, over one week or over one month (self or compliance monitoring) shall be determined by the pretreatment office and listed in the user permit.
AVERAGE WEEKLY DISCHARGE LIMITATION. The highest allowable average of the daily discharges over a calendar week, calculated as the sum of all daily discharges, measured during a calendar week divided by the number of daily discharges measured during that week. An electroplating (EP) categorical standard has a four-day maximum limit, in which case, a week as noted above may be four consecutive working days.
BENEFICIAL USES. These uses include, but are not limited to, domestic, municipal, agricultural and industrial use, power generation, recreation, aesthetic enjoyment, navigation and the preservation and enhancement of fish, wildlife and other aquatic resources or reserves and other uses, both tangible or intangible, as specified by state or federal law.
COMPOSITE SAMPLES. A COMPOSITE SAMPLE should contain a minimum of eight discrete samples taken at equal time intervals over the compositing period or proportional to the flow over the compositing period. More than the minimum number of discrete samples will be required where wastewater loading is highly variable.
DAILY DISCHARGE. Discharge of a pollutant measured during a calendar day or any 24-hour period that reasonably represents the calendar day for purposes of sampling.
DISCHARGER. Any person or persons, commercial, industrial or institutional company that discharges any type of liquid or solid substances to the POTW.
EASEMENT. An acquired legal right for the specific use of land owned by others.
ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION AGENCY, EPA or U.S. EPA. The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, or where appropriate the term may also be used as a designation for the administrator or other duly authorized official of the agency.
GARBAGE. Any solid wastes from the preparation, cooking or dispensing of food and from handling, storage or sale of produce.
GRAB SAMPLE. A sample which is taken from a wastestream on a one-time basis with no regard to the flow in the wastestream and without consideration of time.
GROUND (SHREDDED) GARBAGE. Garbage that is shredded to such a degree that all particles will be carried freely in suspension under the conditions normally prevailing in the sewerage system, with no particle normally being greater than one-half inch in diameter.
INDUSTRIAL USER. Any industrial or commercial establishment that discharges industrial (process) wastewater to a publicly-owned treatment works (POTW).
INDUSTRIAL WASTE PERMIT. A permit to deposit or discharge industrial waste into any sanitary sewer as issued by the POTW.
INFLUENT. The water, together with any wastes that may be present flowing into a drain, sewer, receptacle or outlet.
INTERFERENCE. The inhibition or disruption of a POTW treatment processes or operations which contributes to a violation of any requirement of the town’s NPDES permit. The term includes prevention of sewage sludge use or disposal by the POTW in accordance with § 405 of the Act, (33 U.S.C. § 1345) or any criteria, guidelines or regulations developed pursuant to the Solid Waste Disposal Act (SWDA) being 42 U.S.C. §§ 6901 et seq., the Clean Air Act being 42 U.S.C. §§ 7401 et seq., the Toxic Substance Control Act being 15 U.S.C. §§ 2601 et seq. or any more stringent state criteria (including those contained in any state sludge management plan prepared pursuant to Title IV of SWDA) applicable to the method of disposal or use employed by the POTW.
MAXIMUM DAILY DISCHARGE LIMITATIONS. Highest allowable daily discharge.
MAY. Indicates a discretionary condition.
MONITORING, SELF AND COMPLIANCE. Indicates the monitoring of flow rates and collection of wastewater samples representative of the discharge to the POTW for analysis of various chemical constituents.
NATIONAL CATEGORICAL PRETREATMENT STANDARD. Any regulation containing pollutant discharge limits promulgated by the EPA in accordance with § 307(b) and (c) of the Act, being 33 U.S.C. § 1317(b) and (c) which applies to a specific category of industrial users.
NATIONAL PRETREATMENT STANDARD. Any regulation containing pollutant discharge limits promulgated by EPA under § 307(b) and (c) of the CWA, being 33 U.S.C. § 1317 (b) and (c) applicable to IUs, including the general and specific prohibitions found in 40 C.F.R. § 403.5.
NEW SOURCE. A facility from which there is, or may be, a discharge of pollutants, construction of which began after the publication of the proposed pretreatment standards pursuant to § 307(c) of the CWA, being 33 U.S.C. § 1317(c), which will apply to the facility if the standards are promulgated, provided certain location and construction criteria are met. Reference 40 C.F.R. § 403.3(k) for construction and location criteria.
NPDES PERMIT. National pollutant discharge elimination system permit which sets the conditions of the discharge of any pollutant or combinations of pollutants to the navigable waters of the United States pursuant to § 402 of Pub. Law No. 95-217, being 33 U.S.C. § 1342.
PASS THROUGH. A discharge which exits the POTW in quantities or concentrations which, alone or with discharges from other sources, causes a violation of the POTW’s NPDES permit.
PERSON. Any and all persons, including any individual, firm, company, municipal or private corporation, partnership, co-partnership, joint stock company, trust, estate, association, society, institution, enterprise, governmental agency, the state, the United States of America or other legal entity, or their legal representatives, agents or assigns. The masculine gender includes the feminine, the singular includes the plural where indicated by the context.
POLLUTION. An alteration of the quality of the waters of the state by waste to a degree which unreasonably affects such waters for beneficial uses or facilities which serve such beneficial uses. The human-made/human-induced alteration of the chemical, physical, biological and radiological integrity of water.
PRETREATMENT REQUIREMENTS. Any substantive or procedural requirement related to pretreatment, other than a national pretreatment standard imposed on an industrial user.
RECEIVING STREAM. The watercourse, stream or body of water receiving the waters finally discharged from the wastewater plant.
SHALL. Is mandatory.
SIGNIFICANT INDUSTRIAL USER (SIU). A contributor that: Is any categorical industrial user (CIU); any industrial user which discharges 25,000 gallons or more of process wastewater per day, or contributes a process wastewater which makes up 5% or more of the dry weather average hydraulic or organic capacity of the POTW, or is designated as such by the control authority on the basis that it has a reasonable potential to adversely affect the POTW’s operation or to violate a pretreatment standard or requirement; or has in its waste a toxic pollutant in toxic amounts as defined in § 307 of the Act, being 33 U.S.C. § 1317.
SLUDGE. Any solid, semi-solid or liquid waste generated from 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 as defined in standards issued under §§ 402 and 405 of the Act, being 33 U.S.C. §§ 1342 and 1345 and in applicable requirements under §§ 3001, 3004 and 4004 of the Solid Waste Disposal Act, Pub. Law No. 95-580, being 42 U.S.C. §§ 6921, 6924 and 6944.
SLUG LOAD (SLUG). Any substance released in a discharge at a rate and/or concentration which causes interference to the POTW.
STANDARD INDUSTRIAL CLASSIFICATION (SIC). A classification pursuant to the standard industrial classification issued by the executive office of the President, Office of Management and Budget, 1972.
STANDARD METHODS. The laboratory procedures set forth in the latest edition, at the time of analysis, of Standard Methods for the Examination of Water and Wastewater prepared and published jointly by the American Public Health Association, the American Water Works Association and the Water Pollution Control Federation.
TOWN. Town of Pierceton, Indiana.
TOXIC AMOUNTS. Concentrations of any pollutants which upon exposure to any organism will cause adverse effects such as cancer, genetic mutations and physiological manifestations as defined in standards issued pursuant to § 307(a) of Pub. Law No. 95-217, being 33 U.S.C. § 1317(a).
TOXIC POLLUTANT. The substances referred to in § 307(a) of the Act, being 33 U.S.C. § 1317(a) as well as any other known potential substances capable of producing toxic effects.
UPSETS. An exceptional incident in which a discharger unintentionally and temporarily is in a state of noncompliance with the applicable standard 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 preventative maintenance or careless or improper operation of the treatment facilities.
USER. Any person that discharges, causes or permits the discharge of wastewater into the sewerage system.
WASTEWATER CONSTITUENTS AND CHARACTERISTICS. The individual chemical, physical, bacteriological and radiological parameters, including volume, flow rate and other parameters that serve to define, classify or measure the contents, quality, quantity and strength of wastewater.
WASTEWATER DISCHARGE PERMIT. A permit issued to a discharger by the authority which states the conditions and requirements under which the discharger may use the transportation and treatment facilities of the POTW.
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Abbreviations
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BOD | Biological oxygen demand |
C.F.R. | Code of Federal Regulations |
CWA | Clean Water Act |
EPA | Environmental Protection Agency |
IU | Industrial user |
mg | Milligrams |
mg/l | Milligrams per liter |
NPDES | National pollutant discharge elimination system |
O & M | Operation and maintenance |
POTW | Publicly-owned treatment works |
SIC | Standard industrial classification |
TSS | Total suspended solids |
WWTP | Wastewater treatment plant |
(Ord. 2015-6-1, passed 7-13-2015)