Unless otherwise indicated
by specific context, the meaning and terms used in this Article shall
be as follows:
ACT or THE ACT
The Federal Water Pollution Control Act, also known as the
Clean Water Act, as amended (33 United States Code 1251, et seq.).
AUTHORIZED REPRESENTATIVE OF INDUSTRIAL USER
An authorized representative of an Industrial User who may
be:
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 of the individual designated
above, if such representative is responsible for the overall operation
of the facilities from which the indirect discharge originates.
BIOCHEMICAL OXYGEN DEMAND (B.O.D., BOD)
The quantity of oxygen utilized in the biochemical oxidation
of decomposed organic matter by standard methods procedure in five
(5) days at twenty (20) organic matter by standard methods procedure
in five (5) days at twenty degrees Celsius (20°C) expressed in
milligrams per liter (mg/l).
BUILDING DRAIN
That part of the lowest horizontal piping of a drainage system
which receives the discharge from soil waste or other drainage pipes
inside walls of a building and conveys it to the building sewer, beginning
two (2) feet outside the building wall.
BUILDING SEWER
The extension from the building drain to the public sewer
or other place of disposal.
CHEMICAL OXYGEN DEMAND (C.O.D., COD)
The measure of the oxygen-consuming capacity of organic and
inorganic matter present in wastewater expressed as the amount of
oxygen consumed from a chemical oxidant as under standard laboratory
procedure expressed in milligrams per liter (mg/l).
CITY
The Municipality of Maryville, Missouri, for the purpose
of administering this Article represented by the Director of Public
Works.
COMBINED SEWER
A sewer designed and intended to receive and convey both
wastewater and stormwater, including roof and street drainage.
COMPOSITE SAMPLE
The combination of individual samples of water or wastewater
taken at selected intervals (generally hourly or some similar specified
period), to minimize the effect of the variability of the individual
sample. Individual samples may have equal volume or may be roughly
proportional to the flow at the time of sampling.
CONNECTION
The attachment of a building sewer to the City's public sewer
at a "Y" branch or the drilling of a proper opening on the sewer main
and the placement of an approved collar receptacle secured by epoxy
cement. This work does not include any excavation or backfill at the
site.
CONTROL AUTHORITY
The City is the "Control Authority", through
the Director of Public Works as described in the provisions of 40
CFR 403.11.
COOLING WATER
The water discharged from any use such as air-conditioning,
cooling or refrigeration or to which the only pollutant added is heat.
DIRECT DISCHARGE
The discharge of treated or untreated wastewater directly
to the ground or surface water of the State of Missouri.
DIRECTOR
The executive of the Department of Public Works who supervises
the operation of the Combined Waterworks and Sewerage System of the
City of Maryville.
ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION AGENCY or EPA
The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency or, where appropriate,
the term may be used as designation for the Regional Administrator
or other duly authorized official of said agency.
GARBAGE
Solid waste from the domestic and commercial preparation,
cooking and dispensing of food, and from the handling, storing and
sale of products.
GRAB SAMPLE
A sample which is taken from a waste stream on a one (1)
time basis with no regard to the flow in the waste stream and without
consideration of time.
HOLDING TANK WASTE
Any wastes from holding tanks such as vessels, chemical toilets,
campers, trailers, septic tanks and vacuum-pump tank trucks.
INDIRECT DISCHARGE
The discharge or the introduction of non-domestic pollutants
from any source regulated under Section 307(b) or (c) of the Act (33
United States Code 1317), into the POTW (including holding tanks discharged
into the public sewer).
INDUSTRIAL LIQUID WASTE
All waterborne solids, liquids or gaseous wastes resulting
from any industrial, manufacturing or food processing operation or
process, or from the development of any natural resource, or any mixture
of these with water or domestic wastewater as distinct from normal
domestic wastewater. Industrial manufacturing processes shall include,
but are not limited to: Food and allied products, tobacco manufacturers;
textile mill products; apparel and other finished products, furniture
and fixtures; printing; publishing and allied industries; chemicals
and allied products; petroleum refining and related industries; rubber
and miscellaneous plastics products; leather and leather products;
stone, clay, glass, and concrete products; primary metal industries;
fabricated metal products; machinery and transportation equipment;
electrical machinery, equipment and supplies; transportation equipment;
professional, scientific and controlling instruments; photographic
and optical goods; watches and clocks; miscellaneous manufacturing
industries.
INTERFERENCE
According to 40 CFR 403.3(i), "interference" is defined as 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 its sludge processes, use, or disposal;
and therefore, causes a violation of the POTW's National Pollutant
Discharge Elimination System (NPDES) permit or prevents sewage sludge
use or disposal in compliance with specified applicable Federal Statutes,
regulations or permits.
INDUSTRIAL USER — Revision Required
"Industrial user" is defined in 40 CFR
403.3(h) as a source of indirect discharge. "Indirect discharge" is defined in 40 CFR 403.3(g) as the discharge of pollutants into
a POTW from any non-domestic source regulated under Sections 307(b),
(c) or (d) of the Clean Water Act (CWA).
MUNICIPAL SEWER SYSTEM
All sanitary sewers, pumping stations, sewage treatment plants,
main sewers, interceptor sewers, outfall sewers, and work for the
collection, transportation, wastes thereto, necessary in the maintenance
and operation of the same.
NATURAL OUTLET
Any outlet into a watercourse, pond, ditch, lake or other
body of surface or ground water.
NEW SOURCE
"New source" is defined in 40 CFR 403.3(k)
as a facility from which there is, or may be, a discharge of pollutants,
construction of which began after the publication of the proposed
pre-treatment standards pursuant to Section 307(c) of the CWA, which
will apply to the facility if the standards are promulgated, provided
certain location and construction criteria are met.
NORMAL DOMESTIC WASTEWATER
Waterborne wastes normally discharging from the sanitary
sewer of buildings (including apartment houses and motels), office
buildings, factories and institutions, free from storm surface water
and industrial wastes. Normal domestic wastewater for the City shall
be wastewater with an average concentration of five (5) day BOD established
at two hundred milligrams per liter (200 mg/l); the average concentration
of suspended solids is established at three hundred milligrams per
liter (300 mg/l).
PASS THROUGH
Under 40 CFR 403.3(n), "pass through" is
defined as a discharge which exists the POTW in quantities or concentrations
which, alone or with discharges from other sources, causes a violation
of the POTW's NPDES Permit.
PERSON
Any individual, partnership, co-partnership, firm, company,
corporation, association, joint stock company, trust, estate, governmental
agency or any other legal entity of their local representatives, agents
or assigns. The masculine gender shall include the feminine; the singular
shall include the plural where indicated by the context.
pH
The negative logarithm of the reciprocal of the concentration
of the hydrogen ions in grams per liter of a solution.
PROPERLY SHREDDED GARBAGE
Garbage which has been shredded to such a degree that all
particles will be carried freely under the flow conditions normally
prevailing in sewers, with no particle greater than one (1) inch in
any dimension.
POLLUTANT
Any dredged spoil, solid waste, incinerator residue, wastewater,
garbage, wastewater sludge, munitions, chemical wastes, biological
materials, radioactive materials, heat, wrecked or discharged equipment,
rock, sand, cellar dirt and industrial, City and agricultural waste
discharged into water.
POLLUTION
The man-made or man-induced alteration of the chemical, physical,
biological, thermal, and radiological integrity of water.
PRE-TREATMENT REQUIREMENT
"Pre-treatment requirement" is defined
in 40 CFR 403.3(r) as any substantive or procedural pre-treatment
requirement, other than a national pretreatment standard, applicable
to IUS.
PRE-TREATMENT or TREATMENT
The reduction of the amount of pollutants, the removal 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
or otherwise introducing such pollutants into the POTW. The reduction
or alteration can be obtained by physical, chemical or biological
processes or process changes by other means, except as prohibited
by 40 CFR Section 403.6(d).
PRE-TREATMENT STANDARD
Any (present or future regulation containing pollutant discharge
limits promulgated by the EPA in accordance with Section 307(b) and
(c) of the Act, which applies to Industrial Users.
PUBLIC SEWER
A sewer in which all owners of abutting properties shall
have equal rights, and is controlled by public authority.
PUBLICLY OWNED TREATMENT WORKS (POTW)
The treatment works as defined by Section 212 of the Act;
which is owned by the City of Maryville, Missouri. This definition
includes any devices and systems used in the storage, treatment, recycling
and reclamation of City wastewater of a liquid nature. It also includes
sewers, pipes and other conveyances only if they convey wastewater
to a wastewater treatment plant. For the purposes of this Article, "POTW" shall also include any sewers that convey wastewaters
to the POTW from persons outside the City who are users of the City's
POTW.
RECORDS
Such books, documents, papers, apparatus, data, readings,
records of analysis, plans and graphs as may be required for the proper
operation of the publicly owned treatment works.
SANITARY SEWER
A sewer which carries sewage and/or industrial wastes to
which storm, surface and ground waters are not intentionally admitted.
SEWAGE
Any combination of water-carried wastes from residences,
buildings, industrial establishments, institutions, manufacturing
plants, processing plants, commercial establishments, or other places
in which such wastes are produced, together with such ground, surface,
storm or other water as may be present.
SEWER
A pipe or conduit for carrying sewage.
SHALL
Is mandatory; MAY — is permissive.
SIGNIFICANT INDUSTRIAL USER
As per 40 CFR 403.3(t), "significant industrial user" is defined as:
1.
Any Categorical Industrial User (CIU).
2.
Any other IU which:
a.
Discharges an average of twenty-five thousand (25,000) gallons
or more of process wastewater per day;
b.
Contributes a process wastewater which makes up five percent
(5%) or more of the dry weather average hydraulic or organic capacity
of the POTW;
c.
Is designated as such by the Control Authority on the basis
that it has a reasonable potential to adversely affect the POTW's
operation or to violate a pre-treatment standard or requirement.
SIGNIFICANT NON-COMPLIANCE
Pursuant to 40 CFR 403.8(f)(2)(vii), an IU is in "significant non-compliance" if its violation meets one
or more of the specific criteria listed in this Section. If the POTW
determines that an IU is in Significant non-compliance (SNC), that
user must be included on the annual publication list. In Section 10-326.d
of the ordinance, the City uses an old Federal definition which defines "significant violation" as "a violation which remains uncorrected
forty-five (45) days after non-compliance, which is part of a pattern
of non-compliance over a 12-month period, which involves a failure
to accurately report non-compliance".
SLUG
Any discharge of wastewater, sewage, or industrial liquid
wastes which, for a given pollutant parameter, exceeds for any period
longer than fifteen (15) minutes, more than (5) times its average
twenty-four (24) hour concentration during normal operation.
STANDARD METHODS
The laboratory procedures set forth in the latest edition,
at the time of analysis, of "Standard Methods for the Examination
of Water and Wastewater", as prepared, approved and published jointly
by the "American Public Health Association" and "American Waterworks
Association" and "Water Pollution Control Federation".
STATE
The State of Missouri.
STORM SEWER OR STORM DRAIN
A sewer which carries stormwater, surface water, drainage
and some industrial water discharges, such as cooling and air-conditioning
water, but excludes sewage and industrial wastes.
STORMWATER
Any flow occurring during or following any form of natural
precipitation and resulting therefrom.
SUSPENDED SOLIDS
Solids that either float on the surface of, or are suspended
in, water, wastewater or other liquids and which are removable by
laboratory filtering.
TOXIC POLLUTANT
Any pollutant or combination of pollutants listed as toxic
in (present or future) regulations promulgated by the Administrator
of the EPA under the provision of Section 307(a)(1) of the Act.
TRAP
A device for retaining sand, slit, grit mineral material,
petroleum solvent, grease or oil by gravity differential separation
from wastewater and of a design and capacity approved by the City.
UNPOLLUTED WATER AND WASTE
Any water or waste containing none of the following: Emulsified
grease or oil, acid, or alkali, phenols or other substances imparting
taste and odor in receiving water; toxic poisonous substances in suspension,
colloidal state or solution; and noxious or odorous gases. It shall
contain not more than ten (10) milligrams per liter (10 mg/l) of suspended
solids or five (5) day BOD. The color shall not exceed fifty (50)
standard color units.
USER
Any person who contributes, causes, or permits the contribution
of wastewater into the City's POTW.
WASTEWATER TREATMENT WORKS
An arrangement of devices and structures for treating wastewater,
industrial wastes and sludge. Sometimes synonymous with waste treatment
plant or wastewater treatment plant.
WATERCOURSE
A natural surface drainage channel for stormwater and ground
water in which a flow of water occurs, either continuously or intermittently.
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 of Missouri or any portion
thereof.