[R.O. 2006 § 700.020; Ord. No.
6-2001, 2-20-2001]
As used in this Chapter, the following terms shall have these
prescribed meanings:
The Federal Water Pollution Control Act also known as the
Clean Water Act, as amended, 33 U.S.C. 1251 et. seq.
The unobstructed vertical distance through the free atmosphere
between the lowest opening from any pipe or faucet supplying water
to a tank, plumbing fixture or other device and the overflow level
rim of the receptacle and shall be at least double the diameter of
the supply pipe measured vertically above the flood level rim of the
vessel, but in no case less than three (3) inches.
Any water source or system, other than the public water supply,
that may be available in the building or on the premises.
The quantity of oxygen utilized in the biochemical oxidation
of organic matter under standard laboratory procedure in five (5)
days at twenty degrees Celsius (20° C.), expressed in milligrams
per liter (mg/l).
The reversal of the intended direction of flow of water,
other liquids, gases or substances into the public water system from
any source or sources.
Any device, method or type of construction intended to prevent
backflow into a potable water system.
The City of Greenfield, Missouri, including, but not limited
to, its employees, agents, engineers, operation and maintenance services
personnel and other designates as the City may have from time to time
as deemed necessary.
Protection of the public water supply by installing a cross-connection
control device or air-gap separation on the main service line to a
facility.
An impairment of the quality of the water by sewage, process
fluids or other wastes to a degree which could create an actual hazard
to the public health through poisoning or through spread of disease
by exposure.
Any physical link between a potable water supply and any
other substance, fluid or source, which makes possible contamination
of the potable water supply due to the reversal of flow of the water
in the piping or distribution system.
Any person, firm, corporation, partnership, etc., using or
allowing the use of water and/or sewer services provided by the City
of Greenfield.
That part of the tributary area for which a detention facility
is designed to control peak discharge rates.
Authorization by a property owner for the use by another
for a specified purpose of any designated part of the property.
Any source of discharge, the construction or operation of
which commenced prior to the publication of proposed categorical pretreatment
standards which will be applicable to such source if the standard
is thereafter promulgated in accordance with Section 307 of the Act.
An evaluation of the potential risk to public health and
the adverse effect of the hazard upon the potable water system.
HAZARD, HEALTHAny condition, device or practice in the water supply system and its operation which could create or may create a danger to the health and well-being of the water customer.
HAZARD, PLUMBINGA plumbing type cross-connection in a customer's potable water system that has not been properly protected by a vacuum breaker, air-gap separation or backflow prevention device.
HAZARD, POLLUTIONALAn actual or potential threat to the physical properties of the water system or to the potability of the public or the customer's potable water system but which would constitute a nuisance or be aesthetically objectionable or could cause damage to the system or its appurtenances, but would not be dangerous to health.
HAZARD, SYSTEMAn actual or potential threat of severe damage to the physical properties of the public potable water system or the customer's potable water system or of a pollution or contamination which would effect the quality of the potable water in the system.
Any system containing a fluid or solution which may be chemically,
biologically or otherwise contaminated or polluted in a form or concentration
such as would constitute a health, system, pollutional or plumbing
hazard if introduced into a potable water supply.
Any person, firm, corporation, partnership, governmental
entity, etc., using or allowing the use of water and/or sewer services,
including, but not limited to, treatment of waste, provided by the
City of Greenfield, Missouri.
The control mechanism issued by the City to significant industrial
users, industrial users or users which include conditions necessary
to prevent pass through or interference or protect the quality of
the receiving waterways of the POTW's effluent or protect worker health
and safety or facilitate POTW sludge management and disposal or protect
ambient air quality or protect against damage to the POTW.
Any wastewater discharge from any user which, alone or in
conjunction with a discharge(s) from other sources, which the City
deems will inhibit or disrupt the POTW, its treatment process, use
or disposal, including sewage sludge disposal or use, which contributes
to increase in magnitude or duration of a violation of any requirement
of the POTW's National Pollutants Discharge Elimination System (NPDES)
permit.
Protection of a facility service line by installing a cross-connection
control device or air-gap separation on an individual fixture, appurtenance
or system.
The entire length of sewer pipe(s) and fittings connecting
the customer's premises to the City main sewer line.
The most recent schedule developed by the City which identifies
the maximum discharge limitations of various types of pollutants by
users connected to or using the POTW. Such schedule shall be updated
from time to time as deemed necessary by the City for the purpose
of being a control mechanism and used in issuance of industrial waste
discharge permits.
Any regulation containing pollutant discharge limits containing
pollutant discharge limits promulgated by the USEPA which applies
to industrial users. This term includes prohibitive discharge limits
established pursuant to 40 CFR 403.5.
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 the 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:
The building, structure, facility or installation is constructed
at a site where no other source is located;
The building, structure, facility or installation totally replaces
the process or production equipment that causes the discharge of pollutants
at an existing source; or
The production or wastewater generating processes of the building,
structure, facility or installation are substantially independent
of an existing source at the same site. In determining whether these
are substantially independent, factors such as the extreme to which
the new facility is integrated with the existing plant and the extent
to which the new facility is engaged in the same general type of activity
as the existing source should be considered.
Construction on a site at which an existing source is located
results in a modification rather than a new source if the construction
does not create a new building, structure, facility or installation
meeting the criteria of Subparagraphs (1)(b) or (c) above but otherwise
alters, replaces or adds to existing process or production equipment.
Construction of a new source as defined under this Subparagraph
has commenced if the owner or operator has:
Begun or caused to begin as part of a continuous on-site construction
program:
Any placement, assembly or installation of facilities or equipment;
or
Significant site preparation work including clearing, excavation
or removal of existing buildings, structures or facilities which are
necessary for the placement, assembly or installation of new source
facilities or equipment; or
Entered into a binding contractual obligation for the purchase
of facilities or equipment which are intended to be used in its operation
within a reasonable time. Options to purchase or contracts which can
be terminated or modified without substantial loss and contracts for
feasibility, engineering and design studies do not constitute a contractual
obligation under this Subparagraph.
Any combination of waters from water closets, urinals, lavatories,
sinks, bathtubs, showers, household laundries, household garbage grinders,
bars, soda fountains, cuspidors, refrigerators, dryers, drinking fountains
and all other liquid and water-carried wastes, except industrial wastes
and cooling water, having a BOD concentration of not more than three
hundred (300) milligrams per liter and a suspended solids concentration
of not more than three hundred fifty (350) milligrams per liter.
A wastewater discharge which exits the POTW into waters of
the State in quantities or concentrations which, alone or in conjunction
with a discharge(s) from other sources, the City deems to have the
potential for, or causes, the POTW to violate any requirements of
the City's POTW NPDES permit including an increase in the magnitude
or duration of violation(s).
The presence of any foreign substance (organic, inorganic
or biological) in water which tends to degrade its quality so as to
constitute a hazard or impair the usefulness of the water to a degree
which does not create an actual hazard to the public health which
does adversely and unreasonably affect such waters for domestic use.
Means publicly owned treatment works and shall include all
facilities or devices that collect, transport and/or treat domestic,
commercial or industrial wastes and are owned and/or operated by the
City or by sewage systems that convey wastewaters into and through
the City system and which have entered into agreement for transportation
and treatment of wastewater by the City.
The reduction of the amount of pollutants, the elimination
of pollutants or the alteration of the nature of pollutant properties
in wastewater prior to or in lieu of discharging or otherwise introducing
such pollutants into a POTW. The reduction or alteration may be obtained
by physical, chemical or biological processes, process changes or
by other means, except as prohibited by 40 CFR 403.6(d). Appropriate
pretreatment technology includes control equipment, such as equalization
tanks or facilities, for protection against surges or slug loadings
that might interfere with or otherwise be incompatible with the POTW.
However, where wastewater from a regulated process is mixed in an
equalization facility with unregulated wastewater or with wastewater
from another regulation process, the effluent from the equalization
facility must meet an adjusted pretreatment limit calculated in accordance
with 40 CFR 403.6(e).
Any substantive or procedural requirement related to pretreatment,
other than a national pretreatment standard, imposed on an industrial
user.
A system serving, collecting and/or treating sewer waste
flow from more than one (1) parcel of property, apartment complex,
commercial or industrial complex or single-family residence.
A system that provides for a water source or supply serving
one (1) or more parcel of property, apartment complex, commercial
or industrial complex or a single-family residence.
Any publicly or privately owned water system supplying water
to the general public which is satisfactory for drinking, culinary
and domestic purposes.
The connection of the customer service line onto the downstream
end of the water meter.
All sewage or wastes from a customer's property or user excluding
stormwater, rainwater, downspouts, foundation drains runoffs, etc.
Stormwater, rainwater, downspouts, foundation drain runoffs, etc.,
are prohibited to discharge into the sanitary sewer system.
Any user which is subject to categorical pretreatment standards
or any non-categorical user that discharges twenty-five thousand (25,000)
gallons per day or more processed wastewater or that contributes a
processed wastestream which makes up to five percent (5%) or more
of the dry weather hydraulic or organic capacity of the POTW or any
user that has a reasonable potential, in opinion of the City, for
adversely affecting the POTW's operation or for violating any pretreatment
standard or requirement.
Any one (1) of the following:
Chronic violations of wastewater discharge limits, defined herein
as those in which sixty-six percent (66%) or more of wastewater measurements
taken during a six-month period exceed the daily maximum limit or
average limit for the same pollutant parameter in any amount;
Technical review criteria (TRC) violations, defined here as
those in which thirty-three percent (33%) or more of wastewater measurements
taken for each pollutant parameter during a six-month period equals
or exceeds the product of the daily maximum limit or the average limit
multiplied by the applicable criteria (1.4 for BOD, TSS, fats, oils
and grease and 1.2 for all other pollutants except pH);
Any other discharge violation that the City believes has caused,
alone or in combination with other discharges, interference or pass
through (including endangering the health of the residents of the
City or the general public);
Any discharge of pollutants that has caused imminent endangerment
to the public or to the environment or has resulted in the City's
exercise of its emergency authority to halt or prevent such a discharge;
Failure to meet, within ninety (90) days of the schedule date,
a compliance schedule milestone contained in a wastewater discharge
permit or enforcement order for starting construction, completing
construction or attaining final compliance;
Failure to provide, within thirty (30) days after the due date,
any required reports, including baseline monitoring reports, ninety-day
compliance reports, periodic self-monitoring reports and reports on
compliance schedules;
Failure to accurately report non-compliance; or
Any other violation(s) which the City determines will adversely
affect the operation or implementation of the local pretreatment program.
Any discharge at a flow rate of concentration which could cause a violation of the prohibited discharge standards in Section 700.440 of this Chapter or any discharge including, but not limited to, an accidental spill or a non-customary batch discharge.
The current rules and procedures to be used and followed
in conjunction with an industrial waste discharge permit and includes
monitoring, reporting and management requirements for permitted users.
See Exhibit C to this Chapter on file in the office of the City Clerk.
Total suspended solids determined by laboratory testing as
set forth in the latest edition of Standard Methods for the Examination
of Water and Wastewater with the results expressed in units of milligrams
per liter.
Any person, firm, corporation, partnership, etc., using or
allowing the use of water and/or sewer services provided by the City
of Greenfield, Missouri.
The owner, operator or individual in responsible charge of
a public water system.
