For the purpose of this chapter, certain terms are hereby defined. Any word or term
not defined herein shall be given a meaning found in Webster's Dictionary.
(1) "Act" or "the Act" means the Federal Water Pollution Control Act also known as the Clean Water Act, as amended 33 U.S.C. 1251, et. seq; as well as any regulations, guidelines, limitations and standards issued thereunder.
(2) "Approval authority" means the Director in an NPDES state with an approved state pretreatment program and the administrator of the EPA in a nonNPDES state or NPDES state without an approved state pretreatment program.
(3) "ASTM" means the most recent standards published by the American Society for Testing and Materials.
(4) "Authorized representative of industrial user" means:
(a) A principal executive officer of at least the level of vice-president if the industrial user is a corporation;
(b) A general partner or proprietor if the industrial user is a partnership or proprietorship, respectively;
(c) A duly authorized representative of the individual designated above, if such representative is responsible for the overall operation of the facilities from which the indirect discharge originates.
(5) "Biochemical oxygen demand (BOD)" means the quantity of oxygen utilized in the biochemical oxidation of organic matter under standard laboratory procedure in five days at twenty degrees Centigrade, expressed in milligrams per liter.
(6) "Building drain" means that part of the lowest horizontal piping of a drainage system which receives the discharge from soil, waste and other drainage pipes inside the walls of the building and conveys it to the building sewer which begins five feet outside the inner face of the building wall.
(7) "Building sewer" sometimes "private sewer", "service connection" or "service lateral" means the extension from the building drain to the main public sewer, whether such main sewer is within or outside of the public right of way.
(8) "Categorical standards" means National Categorical Pretreatment Standards as defined herein below.
(9) "Chemical oxygen demand (COD)" means the quantity of oxygen utilized in the chemical oxidation of inorganic and organic matter under standard laboratory procedure expressed in milligrams per liter.
(10) "City" means the City of Struthers, Ohio.
(11) "Combined sewer" means a sewer intended to receive both wastewater and storm or surface water.
(12) "Compatible pollutant" means biochemical oxygen demand, suspended solids, pH and fecal coliform bacteria, plus additional pollutants identified in the City's National Pollutant Discharge Elimination System (NPDES) Permit, if the City's wastewater treatment works was designed to treat such pollutants and in fact does remove such pollutants to a substantial degree.
(13) "Direct discharge" means the discharge of treated or untreated wastewater directly to the waters of the State.
(14) "Director" means the Safety-Service Director for the City or his designee.
(15) "Domestic wastewater" means the liquid wastes from residences, business buildings, institutions, commercial, industrial and manufacturing establishments contributed by reason of human occupancy.
(16) "Environmental Protection Agency" or "EPA" means 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 such Agency.
(17) "Natural outlet" means any outlet, including storm sewers and combined sewer overflows, into a watercourse, pond, ditch, lake or other body or surface groundwater.
(18) "New source" means any source, the construction of which is commenced after the publication of proposed regulations prescribing a section 307(c) (33 U.S.C. 1317) categorical pretreatment standard which will be applicable to such source, if such standard is thereafter promulgated within 120 days of proposal in the Federal Register. Where the standard is promulgated later than 120 days after proposal, a new source means any source, the construction of which is commenced after the date of promulgation of the standard.
(19) "Normal wastewater" means wastewater which contains as an average daily concentration, not more than 200 milligrams per liter (mg/l) of suspended solids; not more than 200 mg/l of BOD; and not more than fifty mg/l of hexane soluble oil.
(20) "NPDES permit" means the National Pollutant Discharge Elimination System permit issued to the City Wastewater Treatment Works by the Ohio EPA for discharge of wastewater into the Cuyahoga River.
(21) "Ohio EPA" means the State Environmental Protection Agency or successor agencies .
(22) "Person" means any individual, firm, company, association, society, corporation or group.
(23) "pH" means the logarithm of the reciprocal of the hydrogen ion concentration, the hydrogen ion concentration being the weight of hydrogen ions, in grams, per liter of solution.
(24) "POTW" means Publicly Owned Treatment Works.
(25) "Pretreatment" means the treatment of wastewaters from sources before introduction into the public sewer.
(26) "Pretreatment standards" means the standards for compatible and incompatible pollutants introduced into the publicly owned wastewater treatment works as set forth in regulations issued pursuant to the Federal Act.
(27) "Properly shredded garbage" means the wastes from the preparation, cooking and dispensing of food that has been shredded to such a degree that all particles will be carried freely under the flow conditions normally prevailing in public sewers, with no particle greater than one-half inch in any dimension.
(28) "Public sewer" means a sewer in which all owners of abutting properties have equal rights, and which is owned and controlled by public authority. As used herein, a public sewer means a public sanitary sewer unless otherwise specified.
(29) “Sanitary sewer” means a sewer that carries sanitary and industrial wastewater together with minor quantities of ground, storm and surface waters or unpolluted water from any source that is not admitted intentionally.
(30) "Incompatible pollutant" means all pollutants other than compatible pollutants as defined hereinabove, for which the City's wastewater treatment works was not designed to treat and in fact does not remove to any substantial degree.
(31) "Indirect discharge" means the discharge or the introduction of nondomestic pollutants from any source regulated under Section 307(b) or (c) of the Act, (33 U.S.C. 1317) into the POTW, including holding tank waste discharged into the system.
(32) "Industrial user" means any nongovernmental discharger to the public sewer identified in the Standard Industrial Classification Manual, 1972, Office of Management and Budget, as amended and supplemented under divisions A, B, D, E and I.
(33) "Industrial wastewater" means the liquid wastes from industrial manufacturing processes, trades or businesses or from the development, recovery or processing of natural resources, as distinct from domestic wastewater.
(34) "Interference" means the inhibition or disruption of the POTW treatment processes or operations which 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 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), the Clean Air Act, the Toxic Substances Control Act or 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.
(35) "Major contributing industry" means an industrial user, as defined herein, of the publicly-owned wastewater treatment works that:
A. Has in its waste, a toxic pollutant in toxic amounts as defined in standards issued under Section 307 (a) of the Federal Act and amendments thereto; or
B. Is found by the City to have significant impact, either singly or in combination with other contributing industries, on that treatment works or upon the quality of effluent from that treatment works and its ability to meet the limitations of its State-issued NPDES permit.
(36) "National Categorical Pretreatment Standard" or "pretreatment standard" means 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) and amendments thereto which apply to a specific category of industrial users.
(37) "National Prohibitive Discharge Standard" or "prohibitive discharge standard" means any regulation developed under the authority of 307(b) of the Act and 40 CFR, Section 403.5, and amendments thereto.
(38) “Sewer” means a pipe or conduit that carries wastewater or drainage water.
(39) "Shall" is mandatory; "may"is permissive.
(40) "Slug" means any discharge of water or wastewater which in concentration of any given constituent or in quantity of flow exceeds for any period of duration longer than fifteen minutes more than five times the average twenty-four hour concentration or flows during normal operation and shall adversely affect the collection system and/or performance of the wastewater treatment works.
(41) "Standard Methods" means the latest edition of "Standard Methods for the Examination of Water and Wastewater" prepared and published jointly by the American Public Health Association, American Water Works Association and the Water Pollution Control Federation.
(42) "State" means the State of Ohio.
(43) "Storm drain", sometimes termed "storm sewer" means a drain or sewer for conveying water, groundwater, subsurface water or unpolluted water from any source.
(44) "Suspended solids" means solids that either float on the surface of, or are in suspension in, water, wastewater or other liquids and that are removable by laboratory filtration as prescribed in Standard Methods and referred to as nonfiltrable residue.
(45) "Unpolluted water" means water not containing any pollutants limited or prohibited by the effluent standards in effect or whose discharge will not cause any violation of receiving water quality standards and would not be benefitted by discharge to the sanitary sewer.
(46) "Wastewater" means the spent water of a community. From the standpoint of source, it may be a combination of the liquid and water-carried wastes from residences, commercial buildings, industrial plants and institutions, together with any groundwater, surface water and storm water that may be present.
(47) "Wastewater disposal facilities" means the structures, equipment and processes required to collect, transport and treat wastewater and dispose of the effluent.
(48) "Wastewater treatment works" means any arrangement of devices and structures for treating wastewater and sludge.
(Ord. 87-8399. Passed 2-18-87.)