Unless the context specifically indicates otherwise, the following terms and phrases, as used in this chapter, shall have the meanings designated in this section:
"Act" or "the act"means the Federal Water Pollution Control Act (also known as the Clean Water Act), as amended, 33 U.S.C.
1251, et seq.
means an authorized representative of an industrial user, who may be:
a. A principal or officer if the industrial user is a corporation;
A general partner or proprietor if the industrial user is a partnership or proprietorship respectively;
A duly authorized representative of the individuals designated above if such representative is responsible for the overall operation of the facilities from which the indirect discharge originates.
"Biochemical oxygen demand (BOD)"means the quantity of oxygen utilized in the biochemical oxidation of organic matter under standard laboratory procedure, five days at 20 degrees centigrade expressed in terms of weight and concentration (milligrams per liter (mg/l)).
"Building drain"means 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 two feet outside the inner face of the building wall.
"Building sewer"means the extension from the building drain to the public sewer or other place of disposal.
"City"means the City of Roseville.
"Cleanout"means a small vertical pipe or shaft extending from the surface of the ground to the sewer provided for the purpose of permitting cleaning of the sewer in any direction.
"Cooling water"means the water discharged from any use such as air conditioning, cooling or refrigeration, or to which the only pollutant added is heat.
"Control authority"means the "approval authority", or the California Regional Water Quality Control Board (the "CRWQCB").
"Direct discharge"means the discharge of treated or untreated wastewater directly to the waters of the State of California.
"Director"means the environmental utilities director or the director's authorized representative.
"Environmental protection agency" or "EPA"means the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency. Where appropriate, the term may also be used as a designation for the administrator or other duly authorized official of the EPA.
"Garbage"means solid wastes from the domestic and commercial preparation, cooking, and dispensing of food, and from the handling, storage and sale of produce.
"Grab sample"means a sample which is taken from a waste stream on a one-time basis with no regard to the flow in the waste stream and without consideration of time.
"Grit"means the heavy suspended mineral matter present in water or wastewater such as sand, gravel, or cinders.
"Holding tank waste"means any waste from holding tanks such as vessels, chemical toilets, campers, trailers, septic tanks, and vacuum-pump tank trucks.
"Indirect discharge"means the discharge or the introduction of nondomestic pollutants from any source regulated under Section 307(b) or (c) of the Act (33 U.S.C.
1317), into the POTW (including holding tank waste discharged into the POTW).
means a source of indirect discharge which does not constitute a discharge of pollutants under regulations issued pursuant to Section 402 of the Act, (33 U.S.C.
1342).
means the liquid wastes from industrial manufacturing processes, trade, or business.
"Interference"means the inhibition or disruption of the POTW treatment processes or operations which contribute to a violation of any requirements of the city's NPDES permit. The term includes prevention of sewage sludge use or disposal by the POTW in accordance with Section 405 of the Act (33 U.S.C.
1345), or any criteria, guidelines, or regulations developed pursuant to the Solid Waste Disposal Act (SWDA), the Clean Air Act, the Toxic Substances Control Act, or more stringent state criteria (including those contained in any State sludge management plan prepared pursuant to Title IV of SWDA) applicable to the method of disposal or use employed by the POTW.
means any outlet into a watercourse, pond, ditch, lake or other body of surface or groundwater.
"New source"means a facility from which there is, or may be, a discharge of pollutants, construction of which facility began after the publication of the proposed pretreatment standards pursuant to Section 307(c) of the Clean Water Act.
"Pass through"means a discharge which exits the POTW into waters of the United States in quantities which may serve to cause a violation of the POTW's NPDES permit.
"Permit"means a wastewater contribution permit.
"Person"means 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. The masculine gender shall include the feminine and the singular shall include the plural where indicated by the context.
"pH"means the logarithm (base 10) of the reciprocal of the concentration of hydrogen ions expressed in grams per liter of solution.
"Pollution"means the manmade or man induced alteration of the chemical, physical, biological, and radio-logical integrity of water.
"Pollutant"means any dredged spoil, solid waste, incinerator residue, sewage, garbage, petroleum products or by products, sewage sludge, munitions, chemical wastes, biological materials, radioactive materials, heat, wrecked or discharged equipment, rock, sand, cellar dirt and industrial, municipal, or agricultural waste discharged into water.
"Pretreatment" or "treatment"means the reduction of the amount of pollutants, the elimination of pollutants, or the alteration of the nature of pollutant properties in wastewater to a less harmful state prior to or in lieu of discharging or otherwise introducing such pollutants into the POTW. The reduction or alteration can be obtained by physical, chemical or biological processes, or process changes by other means, except as prohibited by 40 CFR Section
403.6 (d).
means any substantive or procedural requirement related to pretreatment, other than a National Categorical Pretreatment Standard imposed on an industrial user.
"Properly shredded garbage"means the wastes from the preparation, cooking, and dispensing of food that have 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 (1.27 centimeters) in any dimension.
"Publicly-owned treatment works (POTW)"means a wastewater treatment plant as defined by Section 212 of the Act (33 U.S.C.
1291), which is owned in this instance by the city. This definition includes any sewers, pipes, ponds, pumps or other devices that connect to, or convey wastewater to the wastewater treatment plant. POTW also includes any sewers, pipes, ponds, pumps or other devices that convey wastewaters to the POTW from persons outside the corporate limits of the city who are users of the city's POTW.
means a sewer which carries sewage and to which storm, surface and groundwaters are not intentionally admitted.
"Sewage"means a combination of the water-carried waste from residences, business buildings, institutions, and industrial establishments, together with such ground, surface, and storm waters as may be present.
"Sewage works"means all facilities for collection, pumping, treating and disposing of sewage.
"Sewer"means a pipe or conduit for carrying sewage.
"Shall"is mandatory; "may" is permissive.
"Significant commercial user"means any commercial user of the POTW, which discharges nondomestic and nonindustrial wastewater containing waste chemicals, solvents, oils, or other pollutants capable of adversely impacting the sewer system or POTW if left unregulated.
"Significant industrial user"means any industrial user of the POTW who:
a. Discharges 25,000 gallons or more of process wastewater per day; or
Contributes a process wastewater which makes up five percent or more of the dry weather average hydraulic or organic capacity of the POTW; or
Is subject to a National Categorical Pretreatment Standard; or
Is designated as such by the city, the CRWQCB, or the EPA on the basis that it has a reasonable potential, either alone or in combination with other users, to affect the POTW's operation adversely or to violate a pretreatment standard or requirement.
"Slug"means any discharge of water, sewage, or industrial waste which, in concentration of any given constituent or in quantity of flow, exceeds for any period of duration longer than 15 minutes more than five times the average 24-hour concentration or flows during normal operation.
"Standard industrial classification (SIC)"means a classification pursuant to the Standard Industrial Classification Manual issued by the Executive Office of the President, Office of Management and Budget, 1972.
"State"means the State of California.
"Storm drain" or "storm sewer"means a sewer which carries storm and surface waters and drainage, but excludes sewage and industrial wastes, other than unpolluted cooling water.
"Stormwater"means any flow occurring during or following any form of natural precipitation and resulting therefrom.
"Suspended solids"means the total suspended matter that floats on the surface of, or is suspended in, water, wastewater or other liquids, and which is removable by laboratory filtering.
"Toxic pollutant"means any pollutant or combination of pollutants listed as toxic in regulations promulgated by the EPA or identified in Section 307(a) of the Act.
"User"means any person who contributes, causes or permits the contribution of wastewater into the city's POTW.
"Wastewater"means the liquid and water carried industrial or domestic wastes from dwellings, commercial buildings, industrial facilities, and institutions, whether treated or untreated, which is contributed into or permitted to enter the POTW.
"Watercourse"means a channel or depression in which a flow of water occurs, either continuously or intermittently.
"Waters of the state"means all streams, lakes, ponds, marshes, watercourses, waterways, wells, springs, reservoirs, aquifers, irrigation systems, drainage systems and all other bodies or accumulations of water, surface or underground, natural or artificial, public or private, which are contained within, flow through, or border upon the State of California or any portion thereof.
"Wastewater contribution permit"means that permit that must be obtained from the city before a significant industrial user may connect to or contribute to the POTW.
(Ord. 1718 § 1, 1983; Ord. 2280 § 1, 1989; Ord. 2360 § 2, 1990; Ord. 2707 § 1, 1993)