The following words, phrases and terms as used in this Chapter shall have the meanings ascribed to them in this Chapter:
BEST MANAGEMENT PRACTICES (BMP). Pollution control practices designed and carried out to reduce the pollutants contained in discharges, including low impact development techniques.
BUILDING DRAIN. That part of the lowest horizontal piping of a wastewater drainage system that receives the discharge from soil and waste pipes inside the walls of the building and conveys it to the building sewer, beginning two (2) feet outside the inner face of the building wall.
CITY. The City of Springfield.
CLEAN WATER ACT. The Federal Water Pollution Control Act, which was enacted in 1972 to prohibit the discharge of pollutants to receiving waters of the United States and later amended in 1987, to establish a framework for regulating municipal, industrial, a construction stormwater discharges under the NPDES Program.
COMBINED SEWER. A sewer receiving, by designation of the director, both runoff water and sanitary sewage.
COMMERCIAL ACTIVITY. Any public or private activity not defined as an industrial activity in 40 Code of Federal Regulations (CFR) 122.26(b)(14) as of the date of this Article, involved in the storage, transportation, distribution, exchange or sale of goods and/or commodities or providing professional and/or nonprofessional services.
CONSTRUCTION ACTIVITY. Any clearing, grading, or excavation that results in soil disturbance. Construction activity also includes, but is not limited to, construction, repairs, dewatering, remodeling, building, and emergency construction activities required to immediately protect public health and safety.
DIRECTOR. The City Administrator for the City of Springfield or his/her authorized agent or representative.
DISCHARGE. Any release, spill, leak, pump, flow, escape, dumping, or disposal of any liquid, semi-solid, or solid substance to the municipal storm sewer system.
HAZARDOUS SUBSTANCE. Any substance designated under 40 CFR Part 116 pursuant to section 311 of the Clean Water Act.
ILLICIT CONNECTION. Any human made conveyance that is directly or indirectly connected to the municipal separate storm sewer system and allows for an illicit discharge.
ILLICIT DISCHARGE. Any discharge to the municipal separate storm sewer system that is prohibited under local, state, or federal statutes, ordinances, codes, or regulations. Illicit discharges include all non-stormwater discharges except discharges pursuant to a NPDES permit.
ILLICIT DISPOSAL. Any disposal, either intentional or unintentional, of material(s), substance(s), or waste(s) that has the potential to pollute runoff unless otherwise allowed by law.
INDUSTRIAL ACTIVITY. Any public or private activity which is associated with any other of the eleven (11) categories of activities defined in 40 CFR 122.26(b)(14), as of the date of this Article.
INDUSTRIAL/COMMERCIAL FACILITY. Any public or private facility involved and/or used in the production, manufacture, storage, transportation, distribution, exchange or sale of goods and/or commodities, or any facility involved and/or used in providing professional services. This category of facility includes but is not limited to, any facility defined by a Standard Industrial Code (SIC).
LOW IMPACT DEVELOPMENT (LID). De-centralized management of precipitation that would otherwise be stormwater runoff, utilizing design techniques that infiltrate, filter, store, evaporate, or temporarily detain stormwater.
MAXIMUM EXTENT PRACTICABLE. A standard for implementation of stormwater management programs to reduce pollutants in stormwater. It is the maximum extent possible taking into account equitable consideration of competing factors, including, but not limited to the seriousness of the problem, public health risk, environmental benefits, pollutant removal effectiveness, regulatory compliance, ability to implement, cost and technical feasibility.
MUNICIPAL STORM SEWER SYSTEM. Any inlet, pipe, ditch or gully, or system of pipes, ditches, or gullies, that is owned or operated by the City and used for collecting and conveying stormwater.
NEW DEVELOPMENT. Land disturbing activities; structural development, including construction or installation of a building or structure, the creation of impervious surfaces; and land subdivision.
NPDES. The National Pollutant Discharge Elimination System and is implemented and enforced by a permit issued by the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, or the Nebraska Department of Environmental Quality (NDEQ) pursuant to the Clean Water Act that authorizes discharges to waters of the United States and requires the reduction of pollutants in the discharge.
NON-STORMWATER RUNOFF. Any discharge to the municipal storm sewer system that is not composed entirely of stormwater.
NUISANCE. Public nuisance as defined in this section.
POLLUTANT. The same as defined in section 502(6) of the Clean Water Act including, but is not limited to the following, but does not include uncontaminated stormwater, potable water, groundwater, or reclaimed water by a lawfully permitted water treatment facility:
(1) Materials (including but not limited to fuels, solvents, chemical, detergents, plastic, pellets, hazardous substances, radioactive wastes, fertilizers, pesticides, paints, soot, slag, ash, sludge);
(2) Metals and nonmetals both soluble and insoluble (including but not limited to cadmium, lead, zinc, copper, silver, nickel, chromium, chlorine, phosphorous, and arsenic);
(3) Petroleum hydrocarbons (including but not limited to fuels, oils, lubricants, surfactants, waste oils, solvents, coolants, and grease);
(4) Eroded soils, sediment, and particulate materials in amounts, which may adversely affect the beneficial use of the receiving waters, flora, or fauna of the State;
(5) Animal wastes (including but not limited to discharge from confinement facilities, kennels, pens, recreational facilities, and stables);
(6) Substances having acidic or corrosive characteristics, unusual coloration or turbidity;
(7) Any domestic or industrial wastewater;
(8) Any hazardous substance.
PRIVATE STORMWATER CONVEYANCE SYSTEM. A stormwater conveyance system that is not owned or maintained by the City including any instrumentality that drains or conveys water from a building or from/through one (1) or more properties to the environment or the City's stormwater system.
PUBLIC NUISANCE. Any discharge in violation of the provisions of this chapter, a wastewater discharge permit, or an order of the City Council.
RECEIVING WATERS. All surface water bodies, including all streams, lakes, ponds, impounding reservoirs, marshes, wetlands, watercourses, waterways, wells, springs, irrigation ditches, gullies or channels, drainage systems, and all other bodies or accumulation of water, natural or artificial, public or private, situated wholly or partly within or bordering upon the extraterritorial jurisdiction of the City of Springfield.
RUNOFF. Any stormwater or non-stormwater discharges from a drainage area that enters the municipal storm sewer system. The term runoff is interchangeable with the term urban runoff.
SANITARY SEWAGE. Liquid and water-carried industrial or domestic wastes from dwellings, commercial buildings, industrial facilities and institutions.
SEPARATE STORM SEWER. Pipe or conduit, which by designation of the Director, carries only stormwater runoff, discharges pursuant to a NPDES permit or discharges conditionally exempted by ordinance.
SIGNIFICANT REDEVELOPMENT. Land-disturbing activity that results in the creation, addition or replacement of at least five thousand (5,000) square feet of impervious surface area on an already developed site.
(1) Redevelopment includes, but is not limited to the following activities that meet the minimum standards set forth in this definition:
(a) The expansion of a building footprint;
(b) Addition or replacement of a structure;
(c) Replacement of impervious surface that is not part of a routine maintenance activity; and
(d) Land disturbing activities related to structural or impervious surfaces.
(2) Redevelopment does not include activities that are conducted to maintain original line and grade, hydraulic capacity, original purpose of facility or emergency redevelopment activity required to protect public health and safety.
STANDARD INDUSTRIAL CLASSIFICATION (SIC). A classification pursuant to the current edition of the Standard Industrial Classification Manual issued by the Executive Office of the President of the United States, Office of Management and Budget.
STORMWATER POLLUTION PREVENTION PLAN (SWPPP). A plan required by the State of Nebraska under either the General Permit for Stormwater Discharges or an individual NPDES permit, which includes requirements for stonnwater discharges associated with either industrial or construction activities. The purpose of the plan is to help identify the sources of pollution that affect the quality of stormwater discharges from a site and to describe and ensure the implementation of practices to reduce pollutants in stormwater discharges.
STORMWATER RUNOFF. That part of natural precipitation (rainfall or snowmelt, including that of any frozen precipitation), which travels via flow across any surface to the municipal storm sewer system.
STREET WASH WATER. The water and the associated debris resulting from the washing of streets and/or sidewalks.
URBAN RUNOFF. Any stormwater and non-stormwater runoff from developed land in, or adjacent to, any municipality.
U.S. EPA. The United States Environmental Protection Agency. (Ord. No. 960, 5/16/17)
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