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:
AUTHORIZED OR DULY AUTHORIZED REPRESENTATIVE OF THE USER
A. 
If the user is a corporation:
(1) 
The President, Secretary, Treasurer, or a Vice President of the corporation in charge of a principal business function, or any other person who performs similar policy- or decision-making functions for the corporation; or
(2) 
The manager of one or more manufacturing, production, or operating facilities, provided the manager is authorized to make management decisions that govern the operation of the regulated facility, including having the explicit or implicit duty of making major capital investment recommendations, and initiate and direct other comprehensive measures to assure long-term environmental compliance with environmental laws and regulations; can ensure that the necessary systems are established or actions taken to gather complete and accurate information for individual wastewater discharge permit requirements; and where authority to sign documents has been assigned or delegated to the manager in accordance with corporate procedures.
B. 
If the user is a partnership or sole proprietorship: a general partner or proprietor, respectively.
C. 
If the user is a federal, state, or local governmental facility: a director or the highest official appointed or designated to oversee the operation and performance of the activities of the government facility, or their designee.
D. 
The individuals described in Subsections A through C, above, may designate a duly authorized representative if the authorization is in writing, the authorization specifies the individual or position responsible for the overall operation of the facility from which the discharge originates or having overall responsibility for environmental matters for the company, and the written authorization is submitted to the enforcing officer.
BEST MANAGEMENT PRACTICES or BMPS
Schedules of activities, prohibitions of practices, maintenance procedures, and other management practices to implement the prohibitions listed in 40 CFR 403.5(a)(1) and (b), National pretreatment standards, general and specific prohibitions. BMPs 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.
BOD or BIOCHEMICAL OXYGEN DEMAND
The quantity of oxygen utilized in the biochemical oxidation of organic matter under standard laboratory procedure in five days at 20° C., expressed in milligrams per liter.
BUILDING DRAIN
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 the building and conveys it to the building sewer, beginning 10 feet outside the inner face of the building wall.
BUILDING SEWER
The extension from the building drain to the public sewer or other place of disposal.
CATEGORICAL INDUSTRIAL USER
An industrial user subject to a national categorical pretreatment standard.
CHEMICAL OXYGEN DEMAND or COD
A measure of the oxygen required to oxidize all compounds, both organic and inorganic, in water.
COMBINED SEWER
A sewer designated to receive both surface runoff and sewage.
DAILY MAXIMUM
The arithmetic average of all effluent samples for a pollutant collected during a calendar day.
DAILY MAXIMUM LIMIT
The maximum allowable discharge limit of a pollutant during a calendar day. Where daily maximum limits are expressed in units of mass, the daily discharge is the total mass discharged over the course of the day. Where daily maximum limits are expressed in terms of a concentration, the daily discharge is the arithmetic average measurement of the pollutant concentration derived from all measurements taken that day.
ENFORCING OFFICER
The Administrator of Community Utilities or his authorized deputy, agent or representative.
GARBAGE
Solid wastes from the domestic and commercial preparation, cooking and dispensing of food, and from the handling, storage and sale of produce.
INDIRECT DISCHARGE or DISCHARGE
The introduction of pollutants into the sewerage works from any nondomestic source.
INDUSTRIAL WASTES
The water-carried wastes from industrial manufacturing processes, trades or businesses, as distinct from sanitary sewage.
INSTANTANEOUS LIMIT
The maximum concentration of a pollutant allowed to be discharged 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.
INTERFERENCE
A discharge that, alone or in conjunction with a discharge or discharges from other sources, inhibits or disrupts the sewerage works, its treatment processes or operations or its sludge processes, use or disposal; and therefore is a cause of a violation of the City's NPDES permit or of the prevention of sewage sludge use or disposal in compliance with any of the following statutory/regulatory provisions or permits issued thereunder, or any more stringent state or local regulations: the Solid Waste Disposal Act, including Title II, commonly referred to as the "Resource Conservation and Recovery Act (RCRA)"; any state regulations contained in any state sludge management plan prepared pursuant to Subtitle D of the Solid Waste Disposal Act; the Clean Air Act; the Toxic Substances Control Act; and the Marine Protection, Research, and Sanctuaries Act.
LOCAL LIMIT
Specific discharge limits developed and enforced by the enforcing officer upon industrial or commercial facilities to implement the general and specific discharge prohibitions listed in 40 CFR 403.5(a)(1) and (b), National pretreatment standards, general and specific prohibitions.
MEDICAL WASTE
Isolation wastes, infectious agents, human blood and blood products, pathological wastes, sharps, body parts, contaminated bedding, surgical wastes, potentially contaminated laboratory wastes, and dialysis wastes.
MONTHLY AVERAGE
The sum of all daily discharges measured during a calendar month divided by the number of daily discharges measured during that month.
MONTHLY AVERAGE LIMIT
The highest allowable average of daily discharges over a calendar month, calculated as the sum of all daily discharges measured during a calendar month divided by the number of daily discharges measured during that month.
NATURAL OUTLET
Any outlet into a watercourse, pond, ditch, lake or other body of surface water or groundwater.
NONCONTACT COOLING WATER
Water used for cooling that does not come into direct contact with any raw material, intermediate product, waste product, or finished product.
PASS THROUGH
A discharge which exits the sewerage works into waters of the United States 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 City's NPDES permit, including an increase in the magnitude or duration of a violation.
PERSON
Any individual, partnership, copartnership, firm, company, corporation, association, joint-stock company, trust, estate, governmental entity, or any other legal entity; or their legal representatives, agents, or assigns. This definition includes all federal, state, and local governmental entities.
pH
The logarithm of the reciprocal of the weight of hydrogen ions in grams per liter of solution.
POLLUTANT
Dredged spoil, solid waste, incinerator residue, filter backwash, sewage, garbage, sewage sludge, munitions, medical wastes, chemical wastes, biological materials, radioactive materials, heat, wrecked or discarded equipment, rock, sand, cellar dirt, municipal, agricultural and industrial wastes, and certain characteristics of wastewater (e.g., pH, temperature, TSS, turbidity, color, BOD, COD, toxicity, or odor).
PRETREATMENT
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, introducing such pollutants into the sewerage works. This reduction or alteration can be obtained by physical, chemical, or biological processes; by process changes; or by other means, except by diluting the concentration of the pollutants unless allowed by an applicable pretreatment standard.
PRETREATMENT REQUIREMENTS
Any substantive or procedural requirement related to pretreatment imposed on a user, other than a pretreatment standard.
PRETREATMENT STANDARDS or STANDARDS
Prohibited discharge standards, categorical pretreatment standards, and local limits.
PROHIBITED DISCHARGE STANDARDS or PROHIBITED DISCHARGES
Absolute prohibitions against the discharge of certain substances; these prohibitions appear in § 74-223 of this article.
PROPERLY SHREDDED GARBAGE
The waste from the preparation, cooking and dispensing of food that has 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 in any dimension.
PUBLIC SEWER
A sewer in which all owners of abutting properties have equal rights, and which is controlled by public authority.
SANITARY SEWER
A sewer which is designated to carry sewage and to which stormwater, surface water and groundwater are not intentionally admitted.
SEWAGE
A combination of the water-carried wastes from residences, business buildings, institutions and industrial establishments, together with such groundwater, surface water and stormwater as may be present.
SEWER
A pipe or conduit for carrying sewage.
SEWERAGE WORKS
All facilities for collecting, pumping, treating and disposing of sewage.
SIGNIFICANT INDUSTRIAL USER (SIU)
A significant industrial user is:
A. 
An industrial user subject to categorical pretreatment standards; or
B. 
An industrial user that:
(1) 
Discharges an average of 25,000 gallons per day or more of process wastewater to the sewerage works (excluding sanitary, noncontact cooling and boiler blow down wastewater);
(2) 
Contributes a process waste stream which makes up 5% or more of the average dry weather hydraulic or organic capacity of the sewerage works treatment plant; or
(3) 
Is designated as such by the enforcing officer on the basis that it has a reasonable potential for adversely affecting the sewerage works' operation or for violating any pretreatment standard or requirement.
SIGNIFICANT NONCOMPLIANCE
A. 
Violations which meet one or more of the following criteria:
(1) 
Chronic violations of wastewater discharge limits, defined for purposes of this subsection as those in which 66% or more of all of the measurements taken during a six-month period exceed (by any magnitude) the daily maximum limit or the average limit for the same pollutant parameter.
(2) 
Technical review criteria (TRC) violations, defined for purposes of this subsection as those in which 33% or more of all of the measurements taken during a six-month period equal or exceed the product of the daily maximum limit or the average limit times the applicable TRC. (TRC equals 1.4 for BOD, TSS, fats, oil and grease, and 1.2 for all other pollutants except pH.)
(3) 
Any other violation of a pretreatment effluent limit (daily or longer-term average) that the control authority believes has caused, alone or in combination with other discharges, interference or pass through, including endangering the health of personnel of the publicly owned treatment works or the general public.
(4) 
Any discharge of a pollutant that has caused imminent endangerment to human health or welfare or to the environment and has resulted in the publicly owned treatment works' exercise of its emergency authority to halt or prevent such danger.
(5) 
Violation, by 90 days or more after the scheduled date of a compliance schedule milestone contained in a permit or enforcement order for starting construction, completing construction, and attaining final compliance.
(6) 
Failure to provide required reports such as baseline monitoring reports, ninety-day compliance reports, periodic self-monitoring reports and reports on compliance schedules within 30 days of the due date.
(7) 
Failure to accurately report noncompliance.
(8) 
Any other violation or group of violations which the control authority considers to be significant.
B. 
The control authority is the City of Fall River and its publicly owned treatment works (POTW).
SLUG
Any discharge of water of a nonroutine, episodic nature, including but not limited to an accidental spill or a noncustomary batch discharge, which has a reasonable potential to cause interference or pass through, or in any other way violate the sewerage works' regulations, local limits or permit conditions.
STORM DRAIN AND STORM SEWER
A sewer which is designated to carry stormwater and surface water and drainage, but excludes sewage and industrial wastes, other than unpolluted cooling water.
STORMWATER
Any flow occurring during or following any form of natural precipitation, and resulting from such precipitation, including snowmelt.
SUSPENDED SOLIDS
Solids that either float on the surface of or are in suspension in water, sewage or other liquids, and that are removable by laboratory filtering.
WASTEWATER
Liquid and water-carried industrial wastes and sewage from residential dwellings, commercial buildings, industrial and manufacturing facilities, and institutions, whether treated or untreated, which are contributed to the sewerage works.
WASTEWATER TREATMENT PLANT
That portion of the sewerage works which is designed to provide treatment of municipal sewage and industrial waste. An arrangement of devices and structures used for treating sewage.
WATERCOURSE
A channel in which a flow of water occurs, either continuously or intermittently.
No unauthorized person shall maliciously, willfully or negligently break, damage, destroy, uncover, deface or tamper with any structure, appurtenance or equipment which is a part of the sewerage works. Any person violating this section shall be subject to immediate arrest under a charge of disorderly conduct and/or applicable fines and penalties.
A. 
Generally; limitations. The enforcing officer and other duly authorized employees of the City bearing proper credentials and identification shall be permitted to enter all properties for the purposes of inspection, observation, measurement, sampling and testing in accordance with the provisions of this article. The enforcing officer or his representatives shall have no authority to inquire into any processes, including metallurgical, chemical, oil, refining, ceramic, paper or other industries, beyond that point having a direct bearing on the kind and source of discharge to the sewers or waterways or facilities for waste treatment.
B. 
Liability of City; observance of company safety rules. While performing the necessary work on private property referred to in Subsection A of this section, the enforcing officer or duly authorized employees of the City shall observe all safety rules applicable to the premises established by the company, and the company shall be held harmless for injury or death to the City employees, and the City shall indemnify the company against loss or damage to its property by City employees and against liability claims and demands for personal injury or property damage asserted against the company and growing out of the gauging and sampling operation, except as such may be caused by negligence or failure of the company to maintain safe conditions as required in this article.
C. 
Work in easements. The enforcing officer and other duly authorized employees of the City bearing proper credentials and identification shall be permitted to enter all private properties through which the City holds a duly negotiated easement for the purpose of, but not limited to, inspection, observation, measurement, sampling, repair and maintenance of any portion of the sewerage works lying within the easement. All entry and subsequent work, if any, on the easement, shall be done in full accordance with the terms of the duly negotiated easement pertaining to the private property involved.
Any person found to be violating any provision of this article, except § 74-162, shall be served by the City with a written notice stating the nature of the violation and providing a reasonable time limit for the satisfactory correction thereof. The offender shall, within the period of time stated in such notice, permanently cease all violations.
Any person who shall continue any violation beyond the time limit provided for in § 74-164 shall be guilty of a misdemeanor, and on conviction thereof shall be fined in an amount not exceeding $5,000 for each violation. Each day in which any such violation shall continue shall be deemed a separate offense.
Any person violating any of the provisions of this article shall become liable to the City for any expense, loss or damage occasioned the City by reason of such violation.