(1) Best Management Practices (BMPs) means those practices recognized by the Ohio Department of Natural Resources and the Ohio Environmental Protection Agency which provide the best available and reasonable physical structural, managerial, or behavioral activity to reduce or eliminate pollutant loads and/or concentrations leaving the site and no language contained in the BMP definition prohibits the city from accepting recognized alternative BMPs other than those recognized by these two agencies.
(2) City means the City of Tiffin.
(3) City Engineer means the City of Tiffin City Engineer.
(4) Clean Water Act or CWA means the Federal Water Pollution Control Act (33 U.S.C. §1251 et seq.), and any subsequent amendments thereto.
(5) Ohio Environmental Protection Agency or Ohio EPA means the State of Ohio Environmental Protection Agency or, where appropriate, a designation for the Administrator or other duly authorized official of such Agency.
(6) Illicit Discharge means any direct or indirect non-storm water discharge to the MS4, except as exempted in this chapter.
(7) 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): (i) Owned or operated by a state, city, town, borough, county, parish district association, or other public body (created to or pursuant to state law) including special districts under state law such as a sewer district, flood control district or drainage district, or similar entity, or an Indian tribe or an authorized Indian tribal organization, or a designated and approved management agency under Section 208 of the Clean Water Act that discharges into waters of the United States; (ii) designed or used for collecting or conveying storm water; (iii) Which is not a combined sewer; and (iv) which is not normally part of a Publicly Owned Treatment Works, (POTW) as defined at 40 CFR 122.2.
(8) Property and/or Site means the area of land where discharge, construction or land-disturbing activities occur relevant to this Chapter 909.
(9) Storm water pollution prevention plan (SWPPP or SWP3) means a set of plans and specifications prepared by or under the direction of an engineer indicating the specific measures and sequencing to be used to manage storm water on a development site before, during and after construction and shows the details of any earth-disturbing activity on the site.
(10) Waters of the State means groundwater, percolating or otherwise, lakes, bays, ponds, impounding reservoirs, springs, rivers, streams, creeks, wetlands, marshes, inlets, canals inside the territorial limits of the State, and all other bodies of surface water, natural or artificial navigable or non-navigable, and including the bed and banks of all watercourses and bodies of surface water that are wholly or partially inside or bordering the State or inside the jurisdiction of the State. (Ord. 19-68. Passed 11-4-19.)