As used in this chapter, the following words and phrases shall
have the meanings indicated:
Schedules of activities, prohibitions of practices, general
good housekeeping practices, pollution prevention and educational
practices regarding the discharge of pollutants directly or indirectly
to stormwater, receiving waters or stormwater conveyance systems.
BMPs also include treatment practices, operating procedures and practices
of control site runoff, spillage or leaks, sludge or water disposal
or drainage from raw materials storage.
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A plan required by the NPDES permit that describes how the
quality of stormwater discharged from the MS4 will be controlled by
incorporating activities and measureable goals such as:
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The federal Water Pollution Control Act (33 U.S.C. § 1251
et seq.) and any subsequent amendments thereto.
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The Director of the Department of Public Works or the Director's
designee responsible for enforcing this chapter.
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The refuse and other waste materials from wholesale and retail
stores, restaurants, florists, beauty shops, barbershops, variety
stores, motels, hotels and other commercial enterprises.
Activities subject to NPDES construction permits. Currently
these include construction projects resulting in land disturbance
of one acre or more. Such activities include but are not limited to
clearing and grubbing, grading, excavating and demolition.
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A facility for the intermediate or final disposition of solid
waste.
A unit of single-family or multifamily residential housing,
including, without limitation, apartments, cooperatives and condominiums,
whether privately or publicly owned, located in Aberdeen.
A sudden, unexpected and unforeseen condition of such gravity
as to require immediate action to carry out the purposes of this chapter.
The animal and vegetable wastes resulting from the handling,
preparation, cooking and consumption of foods, exclusive of recognized
industries, and human and animal feces.
The maximum contiguous area allowed to be graded at a given
time.
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Hazardous solid and liquid wastes, such as but not limited
to highly flammable materials, explosives, pathological waste, poisons,
infectious waste from hospitals and doctors' offices and radioactive
materials.
Any material, including any substance, waste or combination
thereof, which because of its quantity, concentration or physical,
chemical or infectious characteristics may cause, or significantly
contribute to, a substantial present or potential hazard to human
health, safety, property or the environment when improperly treated,
stored, transported, disposed of or otherwise managed.
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Any direct or indirect non-stormwater discharge to the storm
drain system, except as exempted by this chapter.
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An illicit connection is either of the following:
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Any drain or conveyance, whether on the surface or subsurface,
which allows any illegal discharge to enter the storm drain system,
including but not limited to any conveyances which allow any non-stormwater
discharge, including sewage, process wastewater and wash water, to
enter the storm drain system, and any connections to the storm drain
system from indoor drains and sinks, regardless of whether said drain
or connection had been previously allowed, permitted or approved by
an authorized enforcement agency; or
Any drain or conveyance connected from a commercial or industrial
land use to the storm drain system which has not been documented in
plans, maps or equivalent records and approved by an authorized enforcement
agency.
Any equipment, device or contrivance used for the destruction
of garbage, rubbish or other wastes by burning.
Activities subject to NPDES industrial permits as defined
in 40 CFR 122.26(b)(14).
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The refuse and other waste materials from factories, processing
plants and other manufacturing enterprises, including putrescible
garbage from food-processing plants and slaughterhouses, condemned
foods, waste wood materials and all other refuse from manufacturing
and industrial processes.
Those measures that are necessary to prevent insect and rodent
infestations, harborage, feeding or breeding sites or to eliminate
established insect and rodent infestations, harborage, feeding or
breeding sites in any area of the City.
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Those insects that are considered to be of public health
significance in this area, such as ticks, fleas, body lice, roaches,
mites and flies.
All materials generated during the clearing of land for home
sites, commercial buildings, recreational facilities, road building
or any other purpose.
All liquid wastes generated through the use of domestic or
municipal facilities, including any industrial or commercial liquids
that may not be classified hazardous or listed within special waste
categories.
Municipal separate storm sewer system operated by the City
of Aberdeen.
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A permit issued by the EPA (or by the State of Maryland)
that authorizes the discharge of pollutants to waters of the United
States, whether the permit is applicable on an individual, group or
general area-wide basis.
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Any discharge to the storm drain system that is not composed
entirely of stormwater.
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Any condition which is detrimental to public health, safety
and welfare, the property of others or the use and enjoyment of property.
Those properties of an emission which stimulate the sense
of smell.
The waste animal matter from butcher shops and slaughterhouses
or packinghouses.
Any kind of oil in any form, including but not limited to
petroleum, fuel oil, crude oil, synthetic oil, motor oil, bio-fuel,
cooking oil, grease, sludge, oil refuse, and oil mixed with waste.
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Any land, publicly or privately owned, other than an approved
sanitary landfill, in which there is a deposit or an accumulation,
either temporary or permanent, of any kind of organic or inorganic
refuse.
A fire where any material is burned in the open or in a receptacle
other than a furnace incinerator or other equipment designed and approved
for the destruction of specific materials.
The title holder of property. The term shall include a tenant,
occupant or any person, firm or corporation in charge of or in control
of property.
Any individual, association, organization, partnership, firm,
corporation or other entity recognized by law and acting as either
the owner or as the owner's agent.
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A substance or mixture of substances intended to prevent,
destroy, repel, or migrate any pest, or substances intended for use
as a plant regulator, defoliant, or desiccant.
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Anything which causes or contributes to pollution. Pollutants
may include, but are not limited to paints, varnishes and solvents;
oil and other automotive fluids; nonhazardous liquid and solid wastes
and yard wastes (including grass clippings); refuse, rubbish, garbage,
litter or other discarded or abandoned objects, ordnances and accumulations,
so that same may cause or contribute to pollution; floatables; pesticides,
herbicides and fertilizers; hazardous substances and wastes; sewage,
fecal coliform and pathogens; dissolved and particulate metals; animal
and pet waste; wastes and residues that result from constructing a
building or structure; and, noxious or offensive matter of any kind.
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Any building, lot, parcel of land, or portion of land, whether
improved or unimproved, including adjacent sidewalks and parking strips.
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The removal and conveyance of refuse from temporary storage
points to disposal sites by municipalities, contractors and others.
The method of final disposition of refuse.
The temporary storage of refuse, all of which is produced
on the premises where the refuse is stored, by dwellings and commercial
and industrial establishments.
The refuse and other waste materials from any dwelling, including
yard waste, household appliances and household furnishings, but excluding
rubble, stumps and land-clearing debris.
A facility which receives and processes solid waste and recovers
either energy or salable by-products, or both.
Structural construction waste materials or materials generated
by building demolition, including but not limited to rocks, concrete,
asphalt, brick, lumber, plaster, plasterboard, siding, roofing and
metal.
A planned and systematic method of refusal disposal whereby
the waste material is placed in the ground in layers, compacted and
covered with earth at the end of each day's operation.
All refuse and other waste materials, combustible or noncombustible,
whether solid, liquid or gas, from all public and private sources,
including but not limited to trash, garbage, rubbish, residential
refuse, industrial refuse and commercial refuse, but excluding body
excrements.
The comprehensive plan for Aberdeen in effect and as amended
from time to time which meets the requirements of the Code of Maryland
Regulations (COMAR), Title 26, Subtitle 4.
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Publicly owned facilities by which stormwater is collected
and/or conveyed, including but not limited to any roads with drainage
systems, municipal streets, gutters, curbs, inlets, piped storm drains,
pumping facilities, retention and detention basins, natural and human-made
or altered drainage channels, reservoirs and other drainage structures.
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Any surface flow, runoff and drainage consisting entirely
of water from any form of natural precipitation and resulting from
such precipitation.
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A document which describes the BMPs and activities to be
implemented by a person or business to identify sources of pollution
or contamination at a site and the actions to eliminate or reduce
pollutant discharges to stormwater, stormwater conveyance systems
and/or receiving waters to the maximum extent practicable in complying
with a general permit for discharges of stormwater associated with
industrial activity.
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All waste materials, other than garbage and offal from stores,
institutions, markets and other establishments, further classified
as combustible and noncombustible.
Any water or other liquid, other than uncontaminated stormwater,
discharged from a facility.
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