For the purpose of this chapter, the following definitions shall
apply unless the context clearly indicates or requires a different
meaning.
BEST MANAGEMENT PRACTICES (BMPs)
Any measure that reduces the quantity or improves the quality
of stormwater runoff including, but not limited to: schedules of activities,
prohibitions of practices, general good house keeping practices, pollution
prevention and educational practices, maintenance procedures, and
other management practices to prevent or reduce the discharge of pollutants
directly or indirectly to stormwater, receiving waters, or stormwater
conveyance systems. "BMPs" also include treatment practices, operating
procedures, and practices to control site runoff, spillage or leaks,
sludge or water disposal, or drainage from raw materials storage.
CLEAN WATER ACT
The federal Water Pollution Control Act (33 U.S.C. §§ 1251
et seq.), and any subsequent amendments thereto.
CONSTRUCTION ACTIVITY
Activities subject to NPDES construction permits. 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.
HAZARDOUS 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.
ILLICIT CONNECTIONS
Either of the following:
(1)
Any drain or conveyance, whether on the surface or subsurface,
which allows an illicit 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 before the effective date of this
chapter; or
(2)
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.
ILLICIT DISCHARGE
Any direct or indirect non-stormwater discharge to the storm drain system, except as exempted in §
97.07 of this code.
INDUSTRIAL ACTIVITY
Activities subject to NPDES industrial permits as defined
in 40 C.F.R. § 122.26(b)(14).
MUNICIPAL SEPARATE STORM SEWER SYSTEM (MS4) or MUNICIPAL STORM
DRAIN SYSTEM
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
that together comprise the storm drainage system owned or operated
by the City.
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,
in whatever form and whether originating at a point or major non-point
source, which is or may be discharged, drained or otherwise introduced
into any sewerage system, treatment works, or waters of the Commonwealth.
POLLUTION
The presence in the environment of pollutants in quantities
or characteristics which are or may be injurious to human, plant or
animal life or to property or which unreasonably interfere with the
comfortable enjoyment of life and property throughout such areas as
may be affected thereby.
PREMISES
Any building, lot, parcel of land, or portion of land whether
improved or unimproved including adjacent sidewalks and parking strips.
STORMWATER
Any surface flow, runoff, and drainage consisting entirely
of water from any form of natural precipitation, and resulting from
such precipitation.
STORMWATER POLLUTION PREVENTION PLAN
A document which describes the best management practices
and activities to be implemented by a person 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.
WASTEWATER
Any water or other liquid, other than uncontaminated stormwater,
discharged from a facility.
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.