(a) For the purposes of these regulations, the following words and phrases shall have the meanings respectively ascribed to them by this chapter:
(1) "Accessible" as applying to premises discharging sanitary sewage, means having a discharge which could flow by gravity to an existing public sanitary sewer by the installation of a building sewer not more than 200 feet in length. (Ord. 82-211. Passe 12-13-82.)
(1.5) "Best Management Practices or BMP's" means schedules of activities, prohibitions of practices, maintenance procedures, and other management practices to enforce specific limits to implement the prohibitions listed in OAC 3745-3-04. BMP's also include treatment requirements, operating procedures, and practices to control plant site runoff, spillage or leaks, sludge or waste disposal, or drainage from raw materials storage. The Director has the authority to require BMP's as a condition of industrial user permits, including recordkeeping and reporting requirements.
(Ord. 15-123. Passed 11-23-15.)
(2) "Biochemical oxygen demand" (BOD) means the quantity of oxygen utilized in the biochemical oxidation of organic matter under standard laboratory procedures in five days at twenty degrees centigrade and expressed in milligrams per liter.
(3) "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 a building and conveys it to the building sewer, beginning three feet outside the building wall.
(4) "Building sewer" means the extension from the building drain to the public sewer or other place of disposal.
(5) "Categorical pretreatment standards" means national pretreatment standards specifying quantities or concentrations of pollutant properties which may be discharged or introduced to the sewage works by specific industrial users.
(6) "Chemical oxygen demand" (COD) means the quantity of oxygen utilized in the chemical oxidation of organic matter under standard laboratory procedures expressed in milligrams per liter.
(7) "City" means the City of Zanesville, Ohio.
(8) "Combined sewage" means a combination of sanitary sewage and surface or storm water, with or without industrial wastes.
(9) "Combined sewer" means a sewer which transports sanitary sewage, industrial wastes and ground, surface, storm and unpolluted waters.
(10) "Commercial user" means all nonresidential customers that are not required to be in the industrial class, such as hotels, motels, stores, offices, churches, schools and hospitals.
(11) "Compatible pollutant" means BOD, suspended solids, pH, and fecal coliform bacteria, plus additional pollutants identified in the NPDES permit if the sewage works was designed to treat such pollutants, and in fact does remove such pollutants to a substantial degree.
(12) "Debt service charge" means the charge required to produce the amount of money necessary annually: to pay the interest on outstanding debt; to pay the principal of maturing bonded debt not payable from a sinking fund; or to provide a fund for the redemption of bonds payable from a sinking fund.
(13) "Department" means the Department of Public Service.
(14) "Director" means the Director of Public Service of the City or his authorized representative or agent.
(15) "Domestic user" means a single or multi-family dwelling unit. A residence which includes a commercial establishment is a domestic customer if the sewage produced by the commercial establishment is domestic in nature and is a secondary flow of the sewer connection.
(16) "Federal Act" means the Federal Water Pollution Control Act Amendments of 1972 (PL 92-500), as amended by the Clean Water Act of 1977 (PL 95-217) 33 U.S.C. 1251 et seq. and the Municipal Wastewater Treatment Construction Grant Amendments of 1981 (PL 97-117), as well as any guidelines, limitations and standards promulgated by the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency pursuant to the Act.
(17) "Floatable oil" means oil, fat or grease in a physical state such that it will separate by gravity from sanitary sewage or industrial wastes by treatment in an approved pretreatment facility.
(18) "Garbage" means the animal and vegetable wastes resulting from the handling, preparing, cooking and serving of food or from the handling, storage and sale of produce. (Ord. 82-211. Passed 12-13-82.)
(18.5) "Hauler" means any permitted user of a septage receiving station within the wastewater collection system that disposes of holding tank wastewater, transported industrial wastewater, or other transported waste material.
(Ord. 17-13. Passed 2-27-17.)
(19) "Holding tank waste" means any waste from holding tanks including vessels, chemical toilets, campers, trailers, septic tanks and vacuum pump tank trucks.
(20) "Incompatible pollutant" means any pollutant which is not a compatible pollutant.
(21) "Industrial users" means any user who discharges to the wastewater system any liquid wastes resulting from processes employed in industry or manufacturing, or from development of any natural resource and any user whose average wastewater strengths exceeds one and one-half times normal domestic sewage strengths in any of the parameters listed in Section 924.06(b)(2).
(Ord. 82-211. Passed 12-13-82.)
(21.2) “Instantaneous limit” means the maximum concentration of a pollutant at any time, determined from the analysis of any discrete or composited sample collected, independent of the industrial flow rate and the duration of the sampling event. (Ord. 15-123. Passed 11-23-15.)
(21.5) "Interference" means a discharge which, alone or in conjunction with a discharge or discharges from other sources, both inhibits or disrupts the POTW, its treatment processes, or operations, or its sludge processes, use or disposal; and therefore is a cause of any violations of any requirement of the POTW's NPDES permit including an increase in the magnitude or duration of a violation.
(Ord. 91-31. Passed 3-11-91.)
(22) "Maintenance" means the upkeep necessary for efficient operation of physical properties. (Ord. 82-211. Passed 12-13-82.)
(22.5) "Mass limitation" means the restriction of pollutant discharge based on the mass or dry weight of the pollutant discharged to the public sewerage system without regard to relative proportion to the volume of liquid waste being discharged.
(Ord. 84-158. Passed 11-26-84.)
(23) "mg/l" means milligrams per liter, a measure of concentration equivalent to and replacing ppm in the case of dilute solutions.
(24) "National pollutant discharge elimination system permit" (NPDES) means the permit required by the Ohio and/or U.S. Environmental Protection Agencies to discharge treated or untreated wastes to the waters of the State.
(25) "Natural outlet" means any water outlet, including storm sewers and combined sewer overflows, into a watercourse, pond, ditch, lake or other body of surface or ground water.
(Ord. 82-211. Passed 12-13-82.)
(25.5) "New source" means any building, structure, facility or installation from which there is or may be a discharge of pollutants, the construction of which commenced after the publication of proposed pretreatment standards under Section 307 (c) of the Act which will be applicable to such source if such standards are thereafter promulgated in accordance with that section, provided that:
A. The building, structure, facility or installation is constructed at a site at which no other source is located; or
B. The building, structure, facility or installation totally replaces the process or production equipment that causes the discharge of pollutants at any existing source; or
C. The production or wastewater generating processes of the building, structure, facility or installation are substantially independent of an existing source at the same site.
(Ord. 91-31. Passed 3-11-91.)
(25.7) “Non-significant industrial user” is an industrial discharger that does not fit in the criteria of a significant industrial user.
(Ord. 15-123. Passed 11-23-15.)
(26) "Normal sewage" means sewage having an average daily suspended solids concentration of not more than 250 mg/l and an average daily BOD of not more than 200 mg/l.
(27) "OEPA" means the Ohio Environmental Protection Agency.
(28) "Operation and maintenance (O&M)". Operation is the organized procedure for causing a piece of equipment, a treatment plant or other facility or system to perform its intended function, but not including the initial building or installation of the unit. Maintenance is the organized procedure for keeping the equipment, plant, facility or system in such condition that it is able to continually and reliably perform its intended function.
(29) "Owner"; "person" means the person responsible for the use of land or facilities unless the occupant, renter, lessee of such land or facilities is designated as the person responsible for the maintenance, improvement, etc., of such land, buildings and facilities; in which case the owner will submit such evidence to indicate this transfer of responsibility. In case of default on the part of the occupant, renter, lessee of such land or facilities, the owner shall be responsible for any and all debts to the City and requirements of this chapter.
(Ord. 82-211. Passed 12-13-82.)
(29.5) "Pass through" means a discharge which exits through the POTW to waters of the State in quantities or concentrations which, alone or in conjunction with a discharge or discharges from other sources is a cause of a violation of any requirement of the POTW's NPDES permit.
(Ord. 91-31. Passed 3-11-91.)
(30) "pH" means the logarithm (base 10) of the reciprocal of the weight of hydrogen ions in grams per liter of solution.
(31) "Premises" means any parcel of real estate, or portion of real estate, including any improvements, determined by the Director to be a single user for purposes of receiving, using and paying for services.
(32) "Pretreatment" means reduction in the amount of pollutants, the elimination of pollutants, or the alteration of the nature of pollutant properties in wastewater to a less harmful state, prior to or in lieu of discharging pollutants to the sewage works.
(33) "Private sewer" means a sewer which is not owned by the public authority, and in which all owners of abutting properties do not necessarily have equal rights.
(34) "Properly shredded garbage" means the wastes from the handling, preparing, cooking and serving 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 one-half inch (1.27 centimeters) in any dimension.
(35) "Public sewer" means a sewer which is owned and controlled by the public authority.
(36) "Replacement" means expenditures for obtaining and installing equipment, accessories, or appurtenances which are necessary during the useful life of the treatment works to maintain the capacity and performance for which such works were designed and constructed. The term "operation and maintenance" includes replacement.
(37) "Sanitary sewage" means any combination of water-carried human wastes from residences, buildings, industrial establishments, institutions, processing plants, commercial establishments or other places.
(38) "Sanitary sewer" means a sewer which transports sanitary sewage and/or industrial wastes and to which ground, surface, storm and unpolluted waters may not be discharged.
(39) "Sewage" means wastewater after it has been discharged into a sewer.
(40) "Sewage works" means all facilities for collecting, pumping, transporting, treating and disposing of sanitary sewage and industrial wastes.
(41) "Sewer service charges" means the monetary rates used by municipalities, sanitary districts and authorities for obtaining the revenue to construct, operate, and maintain wastewater systems and treatment facilities.
(42) "Shall" and "may" Shall means mandatory; may is permissive.
(Ord. 82-211. Passed 12-13-82.)
(42.5) "Significant industrial user" (SIU) means:
A. Except as provided in subsection (42.5)B. hereof, "significant industrial user" includes:
1. All industrial users subject to categorical pretreatment standards; and
2. Any other industrial user that: discharges an average of 25,000 gallons per day or more of process wastewater to the POTW; contributes a process wastestream which makes up five percent (5%) or more of the average dry weather hydraulic or organic capacity of the POTW treatment plant; or has the reasonable potential, in the opinion of the Director, to adversely affect the POTW's operation or for violating any pretreatment standard or requirement.
B. The Director may at any time, on its own initiative or in response to a petition received from an industrial user, determine that a noncategorical industrial user is not a significant industrial user if the industrial user has no reasonable potential to adversely affect the POTW's operation or for violating any pretreatment standard or requirements.
(42.7) “Significant noncompliance.” The term significant noncompliance shall be applicable to all significant industrial users or any other industrial users that violate one or more of the criteria as set forth in Chapter 923.23(d).
(43) "Slugload" means any discharge at a flow rate or concentration, which causes a violation of the prohibited discharged standards in Section 923.11. A slug discharge is a discharge of a non-routine, episodic nature, including but not limited to an accidental spill or a non-customary batch discharge, which has a reasonable potential to cause interference or pass through, or in any other way violates the POTW's regulations, local limits, or wastewater permit conditions. (Ord. 15-123. Passed 11-23-15.)
(44) "Standard laboratory procedures" means that all measurements, tests and analyses shall be determined in accordance with the most recent edition of "Standard Methods of Examination of Water and Wastewater", published by the American Public Health Association, or "Methods for Chemical Analysis of Water and Wastes", published by the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency.
(45) "Storm sewer" means a sewer which transports ground, surface, storm and unpolluted waters and to which sanitary sewage and industrial wastes may not be discharged.
(46) "Suspended solids" means the total suspended matter that floats on the surface of or is suspended in, water, wastewater, sewage or other liquids, and which is removable by laboratory filtering expressed in milligrams per liter as determined by Standard Laboratory Procedures. (Ord. 82-211. Passed 12-13-82.)
(46.5) “TOMP” means Toxic Organic Management Plan.
(Ord. 15-123. Passed 11-23-15.)
(47) "Toxic pollutants" means any pollutant designated by Federal Regulations pursuant to Section 307 of the Federal Act including, but not limited to, aldrindieldrin, benzidine, cadmium, cyanide, DDT-indrin, mercury, polychlorinated biphenyls (PCBs) and toxaphene.
(48) "Trailer camps" or "trailer parks" means any premises upon which is located two or more family-dwelling trailers.
(49) "Treatment works" means all facilities for collecting, pumping, transporting, treating and disposing of sanitary sewage and industrial wastes.
(50) "Unpolluted wastewater" means wastewater of quality equal to or better than the effluent criteria in effect, or wastewater that would not cause violation of receiving water quality standards and would not be benefited by discharge to the sanitary sewers and wastewater treatment facilities provided.
(51) "USEPA" means the United States Environmental Protection Agency.
(52) "User" means any person that discharges, causes, or permits the discharge of wastewater into a public sewer.
(53) "User charge system" means the system of charges levied on users of a treatment works, or that portion of the ad valorem taxes paid by a user, for the user's proportionate share of the cost and operation and maintenance (including replacement) of such works under Sections 204(b)(1)(A) and 201(h)(2) of the Act.
(54) "Wastes" means sewage and all other substances (liquid, solid, gaseous or radioactive) associated with human habitation or of human or animal origin, or from any producing, manufacturing or processing operation of any nature, including substances placed within containers of any nature prior to, and for purposes of, disposal.
(55) "Wastewater" means industrial waste, sanitary sewage or any other waste, including that which may be combined with any groundwater, surface water or storm water, that may be discharged to the sewage works.
(Ord. 82-211. Passed 12-13-82.)
(55.5) “Wastewater discharge permit (Industrial user permit).” A formal permit to discharge industrial waste into any sewer or the sewage system, as issued by the City authorized by the State of Ohio or United States E.P.A. to issue those permits. As specified more particularly in this chapter, the Director may issue either an individual wastewater discharge permit or a general wastewater discharge permit. (Ord. 15-123. Passed 11-23-15.)
(56) "Wastewater treatment plant" means any arrangement of devices and structures used for treating sewage.
(Ord. 82-211. Passed 12-13-82.)