Definitions. The
following words, terms and phrases, when used in this Article, shall
have the meanings ascribed to them in this Section, except where the
context clearly indicates a different meaning:
ACT
The Federal Water Pollution Control Act, also known as the
Clean Water Act, as amended, 33 United States Code (USC) 1251.
AUTHORIZED REPRESENTATIVE OF INDUSTRIAL USER
1.
A principal executive officer of at least the level of Vice
President if the industrial user is a corporation;
2.
A general partner or proprietor if the industrial user is a
partnership or proprietorship, respectively;
3.
A duly authorized representative if the industrial user is a
governmental entity;
4.
A duly authorized representative of the individual designated
above if such representative is responsible for the overall operation
of the facilities from which the industrial waste originates.
B.O.D. (DENOTING BIOCHEMICAL OXYGEN DEMAND)
The quantity of oxygen utilized in the biochemical oxidation
of organic matter under standard laboratory conditions in five (5)
days at twenty degrees Celsius (20°C), expressed in parts per
million by weight.
CFR
The Code of Federal Regulations.
CITY
The City of Oak Grove, Missouri.
DEPARTMENT
The Sewer Department of the City or its authorized representative.
DILUTE OR DILUTION
The increase in the use of process water or in any other
way attempting to dilute a discharge as a partial or complete substitution
for adequate treatment.
EPA
The Environmental Protection Agency.
GARBAGE
Solid food wastes from the preparation, cooking and disposing
of food and from the handling, storage and sale of produce.
INDUSTRIAL USER
An industrial manufacturing process, trade, business or governmental
entity, including agencies of the United States Government and their
agents, which generates wastes and is a source for the introduction
of non-domestic pollutants into the sewerage system.
INTERFERENCE
1.
A discharge which alone or in conjunction with a discharge or
discharges from other sources causes the inhibition of treatment processes
or other disruption of the sewerage system including prevention of
wastewater sludge use or disposal in accordance with applicable State
and Federal criteria.
2.
The discharge of pollutants that adversely affect the waters
of the State or cause a violation of any requirements of the sewage
treatment plant's NPDES permit (including an increase in the magnitude
or duration of a violation).
LOCAL LIMITS
The numerical discharge limitations, determined through analytical
techniques placed on pollutants, by the department.
NATURAL WATERCOURSE
A channel or location in which a flow of water occurs, either
continuously or intermittently.
NORMAL SEWAGE
Sewage which contains not over four hundred (400) parts per million of suspended solids and not over three hundred (300) parts per million of B.O.D. by weight, and which does not contain any of the materials or substances listed in Subsection
(C) of this Section.
PARTS PER MILLION
A weight-to-weight ratio; the parts-per-million value multiplied
by the factor 8.345 shall be equivalent to pounds per million gallons
of water.
PASS THROUGH
A discharge of pollutants as defined in 40 CFR, 403.5(a)
which exits the sewerage system into waters of the State or of the
United States in quantities which may serve to cause a violation of
the sewage treatment plant's NPDES permit.
PERSON
Any individual, partnership, firm, company, corporation,
association, governmental entity or any other generally recognized
entity.
pH
The logarithm to the base ten (10) of the reciprocal of the
number of gram ionic hydrogen equivalents per liter of solution.
PLANT UPSET
A temporary reduction in performance of a sewage treatment
plant that may have been caused by wastewater discharged by industrial
users.
POLLUTANT
Any dredged soil, solid waste, incinerator residue, sewage,
garbage, sewage sludge, munitions, chemical wastes, biological materials,
radioactive materials, cheat, wrecked or discharged equipment, rock,
sand, cellar dirt, and industrial, municipal and agricultural waste
discharged into water.
PRETREATMENT
The reduction of 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 discharge
of such pollutants into the sewerage system.
PRETREATMENT REQUIREMENT
Any substantive or procedural requirement related to pretreatment,
other than a national pretreatment standard, imposed on an industrial
user.
PRETREATMENT STANDARD
Any regulation containing pollutant discharge limits promulgated
by the EPA or State that applies to industrial users.
PROPERLY GROUND GARBAGE
Garbage that has been ground to such degree that it will
be carried freely under the flow conditions normally prevailing in
the City sewers with no particles greater than one-half (½)
inch in any dimension.
SANITARY SEWAGE
Those wastes which are comparable to wastes which originate
in residential units and contain only human excrement and wastes from
kitchen, laundry, bathing, and other household facilities.
SEWAGE
A combination of the water-carried wastes from residences,
business buildings, institutions and industrial establishments, together
with such ground, surface and stormwaters as may be present.
SEWAGE WORKS
All facilities for collecting, transporting, pumping, treating
and disposing of sewage.
SEWER
A pipe or conduit for carrying sewage.
SEWER SYSTEM
The interceptor, trunk and connecting sewers including manholes,
access, junctions, metering, sampling and related structures; pump
stations, treatment plants and support facilities; land, easements
and rights-of-way; all as may be acquired from others, whether interim
or permanent facilities and whether acquired or constructed as initially
planned facilities or extensions thereof.
SHALL
Is mandatory; MAY is permissive; subject to approval by the
department.
SIGNIFICANT INDUSTRIAL USER
Industrial user who:
1.
Is subject to categorical pretreatment standards under 40 CFR 403.6 and 40 CFR Chapter
I, Subchapter N; or is a standard industrial classifications industry; or
2.
Has a process discharge flow of twenty-five thousand (25,000)
gallons or more per average workday or contributes five percent (5%)
or more of the process waste stream of the average dry weather hydraulic
or organic capacity of sewerage system; or
3.
Is designated by the department, MDNR or the EPA on the basis
that the industrial user, either singly or in combination with other
contributing industries, has a reasonable potential for adversely
affecting the sewerage system's operation or for violating any pretreatment
standard or requirement; or
4.
Upon finding that an industrial user meets any part of the criteria
above but has no reasonable potential for adversely affecting the
sewerage system's operation or for violating any pretreatment standard
or requirement, the department may in accordance with 40 CFR 403.8(P)(6)
determine that such industrial user is not a significant industrial
user.
STATE
The State of Missouri.
SUSPENDED SOLIDS
Solids that either float on the surface of or are in suspension
in water, sewage or other liquids, and which are removable by standard
laboratory methods.
USER
Any person discharging sewage to the sewage works.
WASTEWATER
The liquid and water-carried domestic or non-domestic wastes
from residences, commercial buildings, industrial facilities and institutions,
together with any ground water, surface water, and stormwater that
may be present, whether treated or untreated, which is contributed
into or permitted to enter the department's system.
WATERS OF THE STATE
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.