For the purpose of this chapter the following definitions shall apply unless the context clearly indicates or requires a different meaning.
(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.
(2) “Ammonia nitrogen” means the measure of the ammonia form of nitrogen in a sample in accordance with procedures set forth in 40 CFR 136.
(3) “Approval Authority” means the Director for the Ohio Environmental Protection Agency.
(4) “Authorized representative of industrial user” means an authorized representative of an industrial user who may be:
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” means the measured quantity of oxygen utilized in the biochemical oxidation of organic matter under standard laboratory procedure, five days at 20° C. expressed in terms of weight and concentration (milligrams per liter (mg/l)), in accordance with procedures set forth in 40 CFR 136.
(6) “BOD” means biochemical oxygen demand (see above).
(7) “Categorical standards” means national categorical pretreatment standards or "pretreatment standard."
(8) “CFR” means the Code of Federal Regulations.
(9) “COD” means chemical oxygen demand. A measure of the oxygen equivalent of that portion of the organic matter in a sample that is susceptible to a strong chemical oxidant.
(10) “Cooling water” means the water discharged from any use such as air conditioning, cooling, or refrigeration, or to which the only pollutant added is heat.
(11) “Control authority” means the Board of Public Affairs.
(12) “Debt” or “debt service charge” means the amount to be paid each billing period for payment of interest, principal, and coverage of outstanding indebtedness.
(13) “Domestic wastewater” means the wastewater generated from normal living activities including food preparation, bathing, laundry, and toilet usage.
(14) “Environmental Protection Agency” 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 that agency.
(15) “EPA” means the Environmental Protection Agency (see above).
(16) “Garbage” means solid waste from the domestic and commercial preparation, cooking, and dispensing of food, and from the handling, storage, and sale of produce, excluding paper products. “Properly shredded garbage” means the wastes from the preparation, cooking, and dispensing of food that have 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 ½ inch (1.27 centimeters) in any dimension.
(17) “Grab sample” means a sample which 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.
(18) “Holding tank waste” means any waste from holding tanks such as vessels, chemical toilets, campers, trailers, septic tanks, and vacuum-pump tank trucks.
(19) “Indirect discharge” means a source of indirect discharge.
(20) “Industrial user” means an introducer of pollutants into the Village sewage works from any non-domestic source regulated under Section 307 (b), or (d) of the Act.
(21) “Industrial wastes” means the wastewater generated from manufacturing or processing activities which may contain both compatible and non-compatible pollutants.
(22) “Inspector” means the Utility Superintendent, or individual designated by the Board of Public Affairs who represents the Village and whose duties include the issuance of appropriate permits and the performance of inspections.
(23) “Interference” means an inhibition or disruption of the Village Sewage Works, its treatment processes, or operations, or its sludge process, use or disposal which is a cause of or significantly contributes to either a violation of any requirement of the Villages NPDES permit (including an increase in the magnitude or duration of a violation) or to the prevention of sewage sludge use of disposal in accordance with the following statutory provisions and regulations or permits issued thereunder (or more stringent state or local regulations): Section 405 of the "Clean Water Act", the "Solid Waste Disposal Act" (SWDA) (including title II, more commonly referred to as the "Resource Conservation and Recovery Act" (RCRA), and including state regulations contained in any state sludge management plan prepared pursuant to Subtitle D of the SWDA), the "Clean Air Act", and the "Toxic Substances Control Act". An industrial user significantly contributes to such a permit violation or prevention of sludge use or disposal in accordance with the afore cited authorities whenever such user:
A. Discharges a daily pollutant load in excess of that allowed by contract with the Village or by federal, state, or local law;
B. Discharges wastewater which substantially differs in nature or constituents from the user's average discharge; or
C. Knows or has reason to know that its discharge, alone or in conjunction with discharges from other sources, would result in a permit violation or prevent sewage sludge use or disposal in accordance with the above cited authorities as they apply to the Village's selected method of sludge management.
1. “l” means liter.
2. “mg" means milligrams.
3. “mg/l” means milligrams per liter.
(24) “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) which applies to a specific category of industrial users.
(25) “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.
(26) “New source” means any building, structure, facility, or installation from which there is, or may be, an indirect discharge, the construction of which commenced:
A. After promulgation of pretreatment standards under Section 307(c) of the Act which are applicable to that source; or
B. After proposal of pretreatment standards in accordance with Section 307(c) of the Act which are applicable to that source, but only if standards are promulgated in accordance with Section 307(c) within 120 days of their proposal.
(27) “NPDES” means National Pollutant Discharge Elimination System.
(28) “NPDES permit” means a permit issued to the Village Sewage Works pursuant to Section 402 of the Act.
(29) “OEPA” means the Ohio Environmental Protection Agency.
(30) “Operation, maintenance and replacement (OM and R)” means all costs direct and indirect (other than debt service) necessary to ensure adequate wastewater treatment on a continuing basis, conforming with related federal, state, and local requirements and assuring optimal long term facilities management.
(31) “pH” means the logarithm (base 10) of the reciprocal of the concentration of hydrogen ions expressed in grams per liter of solution.
(32) “Pollution” means the man-made or man-induced alteration of the chemical, physical, biological, and radiological integrity of water.
(33) “Pollutant”.
A. “Compatible pollutant” means chemical oxygen demand, biochemical oxygen demand, suspended solids, pH, and fecal coliform bacteria plus additional pollutants if the treatment works was designed to treat such pollutants, and in fact does remove such pollutants to a substantial degree. Examples of such additional pollutants may include:
1. Total organic carbon.
2. Phosphorous and phosphorous compounds.
3. Nitrogen and nitrogen compounds.
4. Fats, oils, and greases of animal or vegetable origin except as otherwise prohibited.
B. “Incompatible pollutant” means any pollutant which is not a compatible pollutant.
(34) “Pretreatment” means the reduction of the amount of pollutants, the elimination of pollutants, or the alteration of the nature of pollutant properties in wastewater prior to or in lieu of discharging such pollutants into the sewage works. The reduction or alteration may be obtained by physical, chemical, or biological processes, process changes, or by other means, except as prohibited by 40 CFR part 403.6(d). Appropriate pretreatment technology includes control equipment, such as, but not limited to, equalization tanks or facilities, for protection against surges or slug loadings that might interfere with or otherwise be incompatible with the Village Sewage Works. However, where wastewater from a regulated process is mixed in an equalization facility with unregulated wastewater or with wastewater from another regulated process, the facility must meet an adjusted pretreatment limit calculated in accordance with 40 CFR part 403.6(e).
(35) “Pretreatment requirements” means any substantive or procedural requirement related to pretreatment, other than a national pretreatment standard imposed on an industrial user.
(36) “Process wastewater” means any water which, during manufacturing or processing, comes into direct contact with or results from the production or use of any raw material, intermediate product, finished product, by-product, or waste product.
(37) “Sewer types and appurtenances.”
A. “Building drain” means that part of the lowest 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 or other approved point of discharge, beginning five feet (1.5 meters) outside the interface of the building wall.
B. “Building sewer” means the extension from the building drain to the public sewer or other place of disposal.
C. “Combined sewer” means a sewer which is designed and intended to receive wastewater, storm, surface, and ground water drainage.
D. “Public sewer” means a sewer provided by or subject to the jurisdiction of the Village. It shall also include sewers within or outside the corporate boundaries that serve one or more persons and ultimately discharge into the sanitary sewer system, even though those sewers may not have been constructed with City funds.
E. “Sanitary sewer” means a sewer that conveys sewage or industrial waste or a combination of both, and into which storm, surface, and ground waters or unpolluted industrial wastes are not intentionally admitted.
F. “Sewer” means a pipe or conduit for conveying sewage or any other waste liquids, including storm, surface, and ground water drainage.
G. “Storm sewer” means a sewer that carries storm, surface, and ground water drainage but excludes sewage and industrial wastes other than unpolluted cooling water.
H. “Storm water runoff” means that portion of the precipitation that is drained into the sewers.
(38) “SIC” means standard industrial classification (see below).
(39) “Slug” means any discharge of water, sewage, or industrial waste which, in concentration of any given constituent or in quantity of flow, exceeds for any period of duration longer than 15 minutes more than three times the average 24-hour concentration or flows during normal operation.
(40) “Standard Industrial Classification” means a classification pursuant to the "Standard Industrial Classification Manual" issued by the Executive Office of the President, Office of Management and Budget, 1972 as amended.
(41) “Storm water” means any flow occurring during or following any form of natural precipitation and resulting therefrom.
(42) “Surcharge” means the assessment, in addition to other applicable charges, which is levied on those persons whose wastes are greater than the normal domestic sewage.
(43) “Suspended solids” means the total suspended matter that either floats on the surface of, or are suspended in, water, sewage, or other liquids, and which are removable by laboratory filtering in accordance with 40 CFR #136.
(44) “Superintendent” means the person designated by the Village to supervise the operation of the Village Sewage Works and who is charged with certain duties and responsibilities by this ordinance, or his duly authorized representative.
(45) “SWDA” means the Solid Waste Disposal Act, 42 USC 6901, et seq.
(46) “Toxic pollutant” means any pollutant or combination of pollutants listed as toxic in regulations promulgated by the Administrator of the Environmental Protection Agency under the provision of CWA 307 (a) or other acts.
(47) “TSS” means total suspended solids.
(48) “USC” means the United States Code.
(49) “User” means any person who contributes, causes, or permits the contribution of wastewater into the Village's Sewage Works.
(50) “Wastewater” means the liquid and water-carried industrial or domestic wastes from dwellings, commercial buildings, industrial facilities, and institutions, together with any other pollutants which may be present, whether treated or untreated, which is contributed into or permitted to enter the Sewage Works.
(51) “Waters of the State” means all streams, lakes, ponds, marshes, watercourses, waterways, wells, springs, reservoirs, aquifers, irrigation systems, drainage systems, and all other bodies or 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.
(52) “Wastewater contribution permit” means a permit issued in accordance with the provisions of this chapter.
(Ord. 518. Passed 6-25-90.)