The words and terms used in this regulation, unless otherwise expressly stated, shall have the following meaning:
(a) “Best Management Practices (BMPs)” means schedules of activities, prohibitions of practices, general good housekeeping practices, pollution prevention and educational practices, maintenance procedures, and other management practices to prevent or reduce the discharge of pollutants to storm water. “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.
(b) “Community” means City of Willowick, its designated representatives, boards, or commissions.
(c) “Environmental Protection Agency” or “United States Environmental Protection Agency (USEPA)” means the United States Environmental Protection Agency, including, but not limited to, the Ohio Environmental Protection Agency (OEPA), or any duly authorized official of said agency.
(d) “Floatable material” in general means any foreign matter that may float or remain suspended in the water column, and includes, but is not limited to, plastic, aluminum cans, wood products, bottles, and paper products.
(e) “Hazardous materials” means any material including any substance, waste, or combination thereof, which, because of its quantity, concentration, or physical, chemical, or infectious characteristics, may cause, or significantly contribute to, a substantial present or potential hazard to human health, safety, property, or the environment when improperly treated, stored, transported, disposed of, or otherwise managed.
(f) “Illegal connection” means any drain or conveyance, whether on the surface or subsurface, that allows an illicit discharge to enter the MS4.
(g) “Illicit discharge” as defined at 40 C.F.R. 122.26(b)(2) means any discharge to an MS4 that is not composed entirely of storm water, except for those discharges to an MS4 pursuant to a NPDES permit or noted in Section 930.07 of this chapter.
(h) “Municipal Separate Storm Sewer System (MS4)” as defined at 40 C.F.R. 122.26(b)(8), Municipal Separate Storm Sewer System 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):
(1) Owned or operated by a state, city, town, borough, county, parish, district, municipality, township, county, district, association, or other public body (created pursuant to State law) having jurisdiction over sewage, industrial waste, including special districts under State law, such as a sewer 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 to waters of the United States;
(2) Designed or used for collection or conveying storm water;
(3) Which is not a combined sewer; and
(4) Which is not part of a Publicly-Owned Treatment Works (POTW) as defined at 40 C.F.R. 122.2.
(i) “National Pollutant Discharge Elimination System (NPDES) Storm Water Discharge Permit.” means a permit issued by EPA (or by a state under authority delegated pursuant to 33 U.S.C. Section 1342(b)) that authorizes the discharge of pollutants to waters of the United States, whether the permit is applicable on an individual, group, or general area-wide basis.
(j) “Off-lot discharging home sewage treatment system” means a system designed to treat home sewage on-site and discharges treated wastewater effluent off the property into a storm water or surface water system conveyance or system.
(k) “Owner/operator” means any individual, association, organization, partnership, firm, corporation or other entity recognized by law and acting as either the owner/operator or on behalf of the owner/operator.
(l) “Pollutant” means anything that causes or contributes to pollution. “Pollutants” may include, but are not limited to, paints, varnishes, solvents, oil and other automotive fluids, non-hazardous liquid and solid wastes, yard wastes, refuse, rubbish, garbage, litter or other discarded or abandoned objects, floatable materials, pesticides, herbicides, fertilizers, hazardous materials, wastes, sewage, dissolved and particulate metals, animal wastes, residues that resulted from constructing a structure, and noxious or offensive matter of any kind.
(m) “Storm water” means any surface flow, runoff, and drainage consisting entirely of water from any form of natural precipitation, and resulting from such precipitation.
(n) “Wastewater” means the spent water of a community. From the standpoint of a source, it may be a combination of the liquid and water-carried wastes from residences, commercial building, industrial plants, and institutions.
(Ord. 2009-73. Passed 9-1-09.)