As used in this chapter:
A. ACT or THE ACT. The Federal Water Pollution Control Act also known as the Clean Water Act as amended 33 U.S.C.1251 et seq.
B. BIOCHEMICAL OXYGEN DEMAND (BOD). The quantity of oxygen utilized in the biochemical oxidation of organic matter under standard laboratory procedure, five days at twenty degrees Centigrade, expressed in terms of weight and concentration (milligrams per liter, mg/1).
C. CHEMICAL OXYGEN DEMAND (COD). The quantity of oxygen utilized in the oxidation of organic and oxidizable inorganic material, under standard laboratory procedures, expressed in terms of weight and concentration (mg/1).
D. CITY. The city of Pinole.
E. CITY FACILITIES. All of the city's city-owned system for collecting, conveying, and treatment including but not limited to the collection system and treatment plant.
F. COLLECTION SYSTEM. The city-owned pipelines, pump stations, manholes and other similar facilities which accept, collect, and convey sanitary sewage to the treatment plant.
G. COOLING WATER. The water discharged from any use such as air-conditioning, cooling or refrigeration or to which the only pollutant added is heat.
H. CONSISTENT REMOVAL. A reduction in the amount of pollutant or alteration of the nature of the pollutant by the city's wastewater treatment system to a less toxic or harmless state in the effluent which is achieved by the system in ninety-five percent of the samples taken when collected in accordance with the provisions contained in Section 13.05.200.
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. ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION AGENCY or EPA. The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency or the term may also be used for duly authorized official of the agency.
J. GRAB SAMPLE. A sample that is taken from a waste stream on a one-time basis with no regard to the flow in the waste stream and without consideration of time.
K. HAZARDOUS POLLUTANTS. Any constituent or combination of constituents that is classified as hazardous under state or federal regulations or is included on the federal list of toxic pollutants specified in CFR Title 40 Part 403.
L. HOLDING TANK WASTE. Any waste from holding tanks such as vessels, chemical toilets, campers, trailers, septic tanks and vacuum-pump trucks.
M. INDUSTRIAL USER. Any contributor of industrial waste or wastewater.
N. INDUSTRIAL WASTE OR WASTEWATER. Any nondomestic liquid or semisolid wastes from any producing, manufacturing, or processing operation or commercial establishment of whatever nature.
O. INTERFERENCE. The inhibition or disruption of the city treatment process or operations that contributes to a violation of any requirement of the city's NPDES permit. The term includes prevention of sewage sludge use or disposal by the city 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), the Clean Air Act, the Toxic Substance Control Act, or more stringent state criteria (including those contained in any state sludge management plant prepared pursuant to Title IV of SWDA) applicable to the method of disposal or use employed by the city.
P. NATIONAL CATEGORICAL PRETREATMENT STANDARD or 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 industrial users.
Q. NATIONAL POLLUTION DISCHARGE ELIMINATION SYSTEM (NPDES) PERMIT. A permit issued pursuant to Section 402 of the Act (33 U.S.C. 1342).
R. NATIONAL PROHIBITIVE DISCHARGE STANDARD or PROHIBITIVE DISCHARGE STANDARD. Any regulation developed under the authority of Section 307 (b) of the Act and 40 CFR Section 403.5.
S. NEW SOURCE. A building, structure, facility, or installation 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 Section 307 (c) of the Clean Water Act, which will apply to the source if the standards are promulgated, in accordance with that section provided that: (1) the source is constructed dt a site at which no other source is located; (2) the source totally replaces the process or production equipment that causes the discharge of the pollutant at the existing source; or (3) the production or wastewater generating process of the source are substantially independent of an existing source at the came site. Substantially independent factors used to make the above determinations are factors such as the extent to which the new facility is integrated with the existing plant and the extent to which the new facility is engaged in the same general type of activity as the existing source should be considered.
T. NEW USER. A person who has not contributed or caused to be contributed waste or wastewater into city facilities from a given building, structure, facility or installation. A “new source” as defined above is included within the meaning of NEW USER.
U. NOTICE OF VIOLATION. A document informing the user that it has violated the city source control ordinance and appropriate corrective action must be taken.
V. PASS-THROUGH or PASSES THROUGH. A discharge, which exits the city wastewater system in quantities or concentrations, which alone, or with discharges from other sources, have the reasonable potential to cause a violation of the city's NPDES permit.
W. PERSON. Any individual, partnership, copartnership, firm, company, corporation, association, joint stock company, trust, estate, governmental entity, or any other legal entity, or the legal representative, agents, or assigns. The masculine gender shall include the feminine, the singular shall include the plural where indicated by the context.
X. pH. The logarithm (base 10) of the reciprocal of the concentration of hydrogen ions expressed in moles per liter of solution.
Y. POLLUTANT. Sewage or any characteristics of 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 commercial producing, manufacturing, or processing operation of whatever nature.
Z. POLLUTION. An alteration of the quality of the waters of the state by waste to a degree which unreasonably affects:
1. Such waters for beneficial use; or
2. Facilities which serve such beneficial uses or which create a hazard to the public health.
AA. PRETREATMENT or TREATMENT. The reduction of the amount of pollutants, the elimination of the pollutants or the alteration of the nature 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 city facilities. The reduction of alteration can be obtained by physical, chemical, or biological processes, or process changes by other means, except as prohibited by 40 CFR Section 403.6(d).
BB. PRETREATMENT REQUIREMENTS. Any substantive or procedural requirement related to pretreatment.
CC. SEWER. A pipeline conveying wastewater from the premises of a user to the collection system.
DD. SIGNIFICANT NONCOMPLIANCE. Any violation of pretreatment standards or requirements which, in the opinion of the city, constitutes significant noncompliance. This shall include but not limited to, instances of chronic violations of wastewater discharge limits, slug discharges, violations of compliance schedules, failure to provide compliance data failure to accurately report noncompliance, or any other violations set forth in Section 13.05.380 of this chapter.
EE. SLUG DISCHARGE. A discharge capable of causing adverse impact to the city sewer system or the treatment facilities, its workers or the environment or any pollutant including an oxygen demanding pollutant released in a discharge at a flow rate and/or pollutant concentration which may cause interference with the operation of the city's sewerage system. The discharge will be considered a slug discharge if the flow rate or concentrations or quantities of pollutants exceed for any time period longer than fifteen minutes or more than five times the average twenty-four-hour concentration quantity or flow during normal operations. Slug discharge is considered to be a discharge of nonroutine, episodic nature, including but not limited to an accidental spill or a noncustomary batch discharge.
FF. STANDARD INDUSTRIAL CLASSIFICATION (SIC). A classification pursuant to the Standard Industrial Classification manual issued by the Executive Office of the President, Office of Management and Budget.
GG. STATE. The state of California.
HH. STORMWATER. Any flow occurring during or following any form of natural precipitation and resulting therefrom.
II. SUSPENDED SOLIDS. The total suspended matter that floats on the surface of, or is suspended in water, wastewater or other liquids, and which is removable by laboratory filtering.
JJ. TRAP. A cast iron or stainless steel containment device used for trapping substances and to prevent grease, sand, or flammable liquids from entering the sewerage system.
KK. TREATMENT PLANT. Any facility owned by the city of Pinole that is designed to provide treatment to wastewater.
LL. USER. Any person who contributes or causes the contribution of wastewater into city facilities.
MM. WASTEWATER. The liquid and water carrying domestic or industrial wastes from dwellings, commercial buildings, industrial facilities, and institutions, together with any groundwater, surfacewater and stormwater that may be present, whether treated or untreated, which is contributed into or permitted to enter the city facilities.
NN. WASTEWATER DISCHARGE PERMIT. As set forth in Section 13.05.180 of this chapter.
OO. WATERS OF THE STATE. All streams, lakes, ponds, marshes, water courses, waterways, wells, springs, reservoirs, aquifers, irrigation systems, drainage systems, and all other bodies of accumulations of water, surface or underground, natural or artificial, public or private, which are contained within, flow through, or border upon the state or any portion thereof. (Ord. 01-102 § 2(part), 2001).