Unless a provision explicitly states otherwise, the following terms and phrases, as used in this chapter, shall have the meaning hereinafter designated.
(a) "Approval Authority" means the Ohio Environmental Protection Agency and the United State Environmental Protection Agency.
(b) "Authorized Authority" means the Village of Shawnee Hills acting through its designated representative for all areas in Delaware County included in the respective sewer district tributary to the Authority's WWTP.
(c) "Best Management Practices (BMPs)" means schedules of activities, prohibitions of practices, general good house keeping practices, pollution prevention and educational practices, maintenance procedures, and other management practices to prevent or reduce the discharge of pollutants directly or indirectly to stormwater, receiving waters, or stormwater 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.
(d) "Dry-weather screening" means visual inspection of the outfall location where there has been a minimum of 72 hours of no rainfall (0.1") within an area.
(e) "Illicit Discharge" means any discharge to an MS4 (Municipal Separate Storm Sewer System) that is not composed entirely of storm water.
(f) "Municipal Separate Storm Sewer System (MS4)" 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).
(g) "National Pollution discharge Elimination System (NPDES) permit" shall be issued by the State of Ohio or EPA pursuant to the Act for the purpose of regulating the discharge of sewage, industrial wastes, and other wastes under the authority of Section 402 of the Clean Water Act, into navigable waters of the United States.
(h) "Non-storm water discharge" means any discharge to the storm drain system that is not composed entirely of storm water.
(i) "Pollutant" means Anything which causes or contributes to pollution, including, but are not limited to: paints, varnishes, and solvents; oil and other automotive fluids; non-hazardous liquid and solid wastes and yard wastes; refuse, rubbish, garbage, litter, or other discarded or abandoned objects, ordinances, 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; and noxious or offensive matter of any kind.
(j) "Soil erosion" means the wearing away of land by the action of wind, water, gravity or a combination thereof.
(k) "Storm water" means any surface flow, runoff, and drainage consisting entirely of water from any form of natural precipitation, and resulting from such precipitation.
(l) "Storm Water Management Plan (SWMP)" means the management of storm water runoff, often using water retention facilities, to provide controlled release into receiving streams.
(m) "Storm Water Pollution Prevention Plan" means a document which describes the Best Management Practices and activities to be implemented by a person or business to identify sources of pollution or contamination at a site and the actions to eliminate or reduce pollutant discharges to Stormwater, Stormwater Conveyance Systems, and/or Receiving Waters to the Maximum Extent Practicable.
(Ord. 01-2012. Passed 2-27-12.)