Definitions. For the purposes of this section, the following terms
shall have the meanings indicated:
BEST MANAGEMENT PRACTICE (BMP)
An activity, procedure, restraint, or structural improvement
that helps to reduce the quantity or improve the quality of stormwater
runoff.
CLEAN WATER ACT
The Federal Water Pollution Control Act (33 U.S.C. § 1251
et seq.), as hereafter amended.
DISCHARGE OF POLLUTANTS
The addition from any source of any pollutant or combination
of pollutants into the municipal storm drain system or into the waters
of the United States or commonwealth from any source.
ILLICIT CONNECTION
A surface or subsurface drain or conveyance which allows
an illicit discharge into the municipal storm drain system, including
without limitation sewage, process wastewater, or wash water and any
connections from indoor drains, sinks, or toilets, regardless of whether
said connection was previously allowed, permitted, or approved before
the effective date of the ordinance from which this section is derived.
ILLICIT DISCHARGE
Direct or indirect discharge to the municipal storm drain system that is not composed entirely of stormwater, except as exempted in Subsection
H. The term does not include a discharge in compliance with an NPDES stormwater discharge permit or a surface water discharge permit, or resulting from fire-fighting activities exempted pursuant to Subsection
H of this section.
IMPERVIOUS SURFACE
Any material or structure on or above the ground that prevents
water from infiltrating the underlying soil. Impervious surface includes
without limitation roads, paved parking lots, sidewalks, and rooftops.
MUNICIPAL SEPARATE STORM SEWER SYSTEM (MS4) or MUNICIPAL STORM
DRAIN SYSTEM
The system of conveyances designed or used for collecting
or conveying stormwater, including any road with a drainage system,
street, gutter, curb, inlet, piped storm drain, pumping facility,
retention or detention basin, natural or man-made or altered drainage
channel, swale, culvert, channel, catch basin, outfall, outlet, reservoir,
and other drainage structure that together comprise the storm drainage
system owned or operated by the City, exclusive of the combined sewer
system.
PERSON
An individual, partnership, association, firm, company, trust,
corporation, agency, authority, department or political subdivision
of the commonwealth or the federal government, to the extent permitted
by law, and any officer, employee, or agent of such person.
POLLUTANT
Any element or property of sewage, agricultural, industrial
or commercial waste, runoff, leachate, heated effluent, or other matter,
whether originating at a point or non-point source, that is or may
be introduced into any sewage treatment works or waters of the commonwealth.
Pollutants shall include, without limitations:
(1)
Paints, varnishes, and solvents;
(2)
Oil and other automotive fluids;
(3)
Nonhazardous liquid and solid wastes and yard wastes;
(4)
Refuse, rubbish, garbage, litter, or other discarded or abandoned
objects;
(5)
Pesticides, herbicides, and fertilizers;
(6)
Hazardous materials and wastes; sewage, fecal coliform and pathogens;
(7)
Dissolved and particulate metals;
(10)
Construction wastes and residues; and
(11)
Noxious or offensive matter of any kind.
PROCESS WASTEWATER
Water which, during manufacturing or processing, comes into
direct contact with or results from the production or use of any material,
intermediate product, finished product, or waste product.
RECHARGE
The process by which groundwater is replenished by precipitation.
STORMWATER
Stormwater runoff, snow melt runoff, and surface water runoff.
SURFACE WATER DISCHARGE PERMIT
A permit issued by the Department of Environmental Protection
(DEP) pursuant to 314 CMR 7.00 that authorizes the discharge of pollutants
to waters of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts.
TOXIC OR HAZARDOUS MATERIAL OR WASTE
Any material which, because of its quantity, concentration,
chemical, corrosive, flammable, reactive, toxic, infectious or radioactive
characteristics, either separately or in combination with any substance
or substances, constitutes a present or potential threat to human
health, safety, welfare, or to the environment. Toxic or hazardous
materials include any synthetic organic chemical, petroleum product,
heavy metal, radioactive or infectious waste, acid and alkali, and
any substance defined as toxic or hazardous under MGL c. 21C and c.
21E, and the regulations at 310 CMR 30.000 and 310 CMR 40.0000.
WASTEWATER
Any sanitary waste, sludge, or septic tank or cesspool overflow,
and water that, during manufacturing, cleaning 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.
WATERCOURSE
A natural or man-made channel through which water flows or
a stream of water, including a river, brook or underground stream.
WATERS OF THE COMMONWEALTH
All waters within the jurisdiction of the commonwealth, including,
without limitation, rivers, streams, lakes, ponds, springs, impoundments,
estuaries, wetlands, coastal waters, and groundwater.