For the purpose of this chapter the following definitions shall apply, unless the context clearly indicates or requires a different meaning.

ACT or the ACT.  The Federal Water Pollution Control Act, also known as the Clean Water Act, as amended, 33 USC 1251, et. seq.

AMMONIA NITROGEN or NH3N.  The measure of nitrogen as ammonia, as determined by the appropriate procedure in the latest edition of Standard Methods.

APPROVAL AUTHORITY.  The Secretary of the Kentucky Natural Resources and Environmental Protection Cabinet and/or any authorized representative thereof.

AUTHORIZED REPRESENTATIVE OF INDUSTRIAL USER.  An authorized representative of an industrial user may be any of the following.

(1) A principal executive officer of at least the level of vice-president, if the industrial user is a corporation.

(2) A general partner or proprietor if the user is a partnership or proprietorship, respectively.

(3) A duly authorized representative of the individual designated above if such representative is responsible for the overall operation of the facilities from which the indirect discharge originates.

BIOCHEMICAL OXYGEN DEMAND or BOD.  The measure of decomposable organic material in domestic or industrial wastewaters as represented by the oxygen utilized over a period of five days at 20°C and as determined by the appropriate procedure in Standard Methods.

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 five 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 STANDARDS. National Categorical Pretreatment Standards or Pretreatment Standard.  Any regulations containing pollutant discharge limits promulgated by the EPA in accordance with Section 307(b) and (c) of the Act (33 U.S.C. 1347) and 40 CFR 403 which applies to a specific category of industrial users.

CHEMICAL OXYGEN DEMAND or COD.  A measure of the oxygen equivalent of that portion of the organic matter in a sample that is susceptible to oxidation by a strong chemical oxidant, as determined by the appropriate procedure in Standard Methods.

CITY.  The City of Stanford, Kentucky, acting through the Stanford Water and Sewer Commission.

COMBINED SEWER.  A sewer receiving both surface runoff and wastewater.

COMPATIBLE POLLUTANT.  Biochemical oxygen demand, suspended solids, and fecal coliform bacteria; plus any additional pollutants that the POTW is designed to treat and, in fact, does treat to the degree required by the POTW’s NPDES/KPDES permit.

COMPOSITE WASTEWATER SAMPLE.  A combination of individual samples of water or wastewater taken at selected intervals, or based on quantity of flow for some specified period, to minimize the effect of variability of the individual sample.  Individual samples may have equal volume or may be proportioned to the flow at the time of the sampling.

CONTROL AUTHORITY.  The Approval Authority defined in this section, or the Superintendent of the POTW or his/her designee if the city has an approved pretreatment program under the provisions of 40 CFR 403.11.

COOLING WATER. The water discharged from any use such as air conditioning, cooling or refrigeration, or to which the-only pollutant added is heat.

COUNTY HEALTH DEPARTMENT.  The Lincoln County Health Department.

DEBT SERVICE.  Charges levied on users of the sewage treatment system to support the annual debt service obligations of the system.

DIRECT DISCHARGE.  The discharge of treated or untreated wastewater directly to the waters of the state.

DISCHARGER.  Any person who discharges or causes a discharge to a public sewer.

DOMESTIC WASTEWATER.  The water-carried wastes produced from non-commercial or non-industrial activities and which result from normal human living processes.

EFFLUENT.  The liquid outflow of any facility designed to treat, convey or retain wastewater.

EFFLUENT SEWER.  A pipe or conduit for carrying only effluent which has received at least primary treatment, such as by a septic tank.

ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION AGENCY or EPA.  The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, or where appropriate the term may also be used as a designation for the Administrator or other duly authorized official of the agency.

GARBAGE.  Animal and vegetable waste resulting from the handling, preparation, cooking and serving of food in home kitchens, stores, markets, restaurants, motels, hotels and other places where food is stored, prepared or served. Specifically excluded are food processing wastes from canneries, slaughterhouses, packing plants and similar industries.

GRAB SAMPLE.  Any individual sample of wastewater collected over a period of time not exceeding 15 minutes.

HOLDING TANK WASTE.  Any waste from holding tanks such as vessels, chemical toilets, campers, trailers, septic tanks, and vacuum-pump tank trucks.

INCOMPATIBLE POLLUTANT.  All pollutants other than compatible pollutants as defined in this section.

INDIRECT DISCHARGE.  The discharge or the introduction of pollutants into a POTW from any non-domestic source regulated under Section 307(b), (c) or (d) of the Act and including holding tank waste discharged into the system.

INDUSTRIAL USER.  A source of indirect discharge.

INDUSTRIAL WASTEWATER.  All water-carried wastes and wastewater of the community, excluding domestic wastewater and uncontaminated water, and shall include all wastewater from any producing, manufacturing, processing, institutional, commercial, agricultural or other operation where the wastewater discharge includes significant quantities of wastes of non-human origin.

INTERCEPTOR.  A device designed and installed so as to separate and retain deleterious, hazardous and undesirable matter from domestic wastes while permitting domestic sewage or liquid wastes to discharge into the sewer system or drainage system by gravity. INTERCEPTOR is commonly referred to as a grease, oil or sand trap.

INTERFERENCE.  The inhibition or disruption of the POTW treatment processes or operations or which contributes to a violation of any requirement of the city's NPDES/KPDES permit. The term includes prevention of sewage sludge use or disposal by the POTW in accordance with Section 405 of the Act, (33 USC 1345) or any criteria, guideline, 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 or SWDA) applicable to the method of disposal or use employed by the POTW.

MAXIMUM DAILY CONCENTRATION.  The maximum concentration per day of a pollutant based on the analytical results obtained from a 24-hour composite sample.

NATIONAL (OR KENTUCKY) POLLUTANT DISCHARGE ELIMINATION SYSTEM or NPDES/KPDES PERMIT.  A permit issued pursuant to Section 402 of the Act (33 USC 1332), or a permit issued by the state under this authority and referred to as KPDES.

NATURAL OUTLET.  Any outlet into a watercourse, pond, ditch, lake or other body of surface or groundwater.

NEW SOURCE. Any source, the construction of which is commenced after the publication of proposed regulations prescribing a Section 307(c) (33 USC 1317) categorical pretreatment standard which will be applicable to such source, if such standard is thereafter promulgated within 120 days of proposal in the Federal Register. Where the standard is promulgated later than 120 days after proposal, a new source means any source, the construction of which is commenced after the date of promulgation of the standard.

OPERATION AND MAINTENANCE.  Those functions that result in expenditures during the useful life of the treatment works for materials, labor, utilities and other items which are necessary for managing, and for which the works were designed and constructed. The term OPERATION AND MAINTENANCE includes replacement as defined in this section.

OPERATION AND MAINTENANCE EXPENSES.  All annual operation and maintenance expenses including replacement cost related directly to operating and maintaining the sewage works as shown by annual audit.

ORDINANCE.  Unless otherwise specified, the city sewer ordinance.

PERSON.  Any individual, partnership, committee, association, corporation, public agency, firm, company and any other organization or group of persons, public or private.

pH.  The logarithm of the reciprocal of the hydrogen ion concentration which is the weight of hydrogen ions in grams per liter of solution.

POLLUTION. The man-made or man-induced alteration of the chemical, physical, biological, and radiological integrity of water.

POLLUTANT. Any dredged spoil, solid waste, incinerator residue, sewage, garbage, sewage sludge, munitions, chemical wastes, biological materials, radioactive materials, heat, wrecked or discharged equipment, rock, sand, cellar dirt and industrial, municipal, and agricultural waste discharged into water.

POTW TREATMENT PLANT. That portion of the POTW designed to provide treatment to wastewater.

PRETREATMENT or TREATMENT.  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 a POTW. The reduction or alteration can be obtained by physical, chemical or biological processes, or process changes or other means, except as prohibited by 40 CFR 403.6(d).

PRETREATMENT REQUIREMENTS.  Any substantive or procedural requirement related to pretreatment, other than a National Pretreatment Standard imposed on an industrial user.

PROHIBITIVE DISCHARGE STANDARD.  Any regulation developed under the authority of Section 307(b) of the Act and 40 CFR 403.5.

PROPERLY SHREDDED GARBAGE.  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 particles greater than ½-inch in any dimension.

PUBLICLY-OWNED TREATMENT WORKS or POTW.  A treatment works as defined by section 212 of the Act, (33 USC 1292) which is owned in this instance by the city. This definition includes any sewers that convey wastewater to the POTW treatment plant, but does not include pipes, sewers or other conveyances not connected to a facility providing treatment. For the purposes of this chapter, POTW shall also include any sewers that convey wastewaters to the POTW from persons outside the city who are, by contract or agreement with the city, users of the city's POTW.

PUBLIC SEWER.  Any sewer dedicated to public use, and which use is controlled by the city.

REPLACEMENT.  Expenditures for obtaining and installing equipment, accessories or appurtenances which are necessary during the useful life of the treatment works to maintain the capacity and performance for which the works were designed and construction.

SANITARY SEWER.  A sewer which carries domestic and/or industrial wastewater and to which storm, surface and ground waters are not intentionally admitted; this term may also include the meaning of EFFLUENT SEWER where appropriate.

SEWAGE.  Wastewater.

SEWER SYSTEM or WORKS.  All facilities for collecting, transporting, piping, treating and disposing of sewage and sludge, namely the sewerage system and POTW.

SEWER USER CHARGES.  A system of charges levied on users of a POTW for the cost of operation and maintenance, including replacement, or such works.

SEWERAGE.  Any and all facilities used for collecting, conveying, pumping, treating and disposing of wastewater.

SEWER.  A pipe or conduit for carrying wastewater.

SHALL is mandatory; MAY is permissive.

SIGNIFICANT INDUSTRIAL USER.  Any user of the city's wastewater disposal system who:

(1) Is subject to a categorical pretreatment standard(s) under 40 CFR 403.6 and 40 CFR Chapter I, Subchapter N.

(2) Has a discharge flow of 25,000 gallons or more per average work day.

(3) Has a flow greater than 5% of the flow in the city's wastewater treatment system.

(4) Has in his wastewaters toxic pollutants as defined, pursuant to Section 307 of the Act of (State) Statutes and rules.

(5) Is found by the city (State Approval Authority) or the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) to have significant impact, either singly or in combination with other contributing industries, on the wastewater treatment system, the quality of sludge, the system's effluent quality, or air emissions generated by the system.

(1) Chronic violations of wastewater discharge limits, defined herein 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 herein as those in which 33% or more of all of the measurements for each pollutant parameter taken during a six-month period equal or exceed the product of the daily maximum limit or the average limit multiplied by the applicable TRC (TRC=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 maximum or longer?term average) that the Superintendent determines has caused, alone or in combination with other discharges, interference or pass?through (including endangering the health of POTW personnel or the general public).

(4) Any discharge of a pollutant that has caused imminent endangerment to human health, welfare or to the environment or has resulted in the POTW's exercise of its emergency authority to halt or prevent such a discharge.

(5) Failure to meet, within 90 days after the schedule date, a compliance schedule milestone contained in a wastewater discharge permit or other order issued hereunder for starting construction, completing construction, or attaining final compliance.

(6) Failure to provide, within 30 days after the due date, required reports such as baseline monitoring reports, 90-day compliance reports, periodic self?monitoring reports, and reports on compliance with compliance schedules.

(7) Failure to accurately report noncompliance.

(8) Any other violation or group of violations which the Superintendent determines will adversely affect the operation or implementation of the local pretreatment program.

SLUG DISCHARGE.  Any discharge of a non?routine, episodic nature, including but not limited to an accidental spill or non?customary batch discharge and/or any discharge of water or wastewater in which the concentration of any given constituent or the quantity of flow exceeds for any period of duration longer than 15 minutes more than five times the average 24-hour concentration or flow rate during normal operation arid/or adversely affects the POTW.

STANDARD INDUSTRIAL CLASSIFICATION or SIC.  A classification pursuant to the Standard Industrial Classification Manual issued by the Executive Office of the President, Office of Management and Budget, 1972.

STANDARD METHODS.  The current edition of Standard Methods for the Examination of Water and Wastewater as published by the American Public Health Association.

STORM DRAIN or STORM SEWER.  A sewer which carries storm and surface waters and drainage, but excludes domestic and industrial wastewaters.

STORM WATER.  Any flow occurring during or following any form of natural precipitation and resulting therefrom.

SUPERINTENDENT.  The Superintendent of the Stanford Utility Commission or his authorized deputy, agent or representative.

SUSPENDED SOLIDS.  The insoluble solid matter suspended in wastewater that is separable by laboratory filtration in accordance with the procedure described in Standard Methods.

TOXIC POLLUTANT.  Any pollutant or combination of pollutants listed as toxic in regulations promulgated by the Administrator of the Environmental Protection Agency under the provision of CWA 307(a) or other Acts.

USER.  Any person who contributes, causes or permits the contribution of wastewater into the city's POTW.

USER CHARGE.  That portion of the total wastewater service charge which is levied in a proportional and adequate manner for the cost of operation, maintenance and replacement of the wastewater treatment works.

WASTEWATER.  The water-carried wastes of the community derived from human or industrial sources, including domestic wastewater and industrial wastewater. Rainwater, groundwater or drainage of contaminated water is not wastewater.

WASTEWATER TREATMENT PLANT.  Any arrangement of devices and structures used for treating wastewater.

WATERCOURSE.  A channel in which a flow of water occurs, either continuously or intermittently.

WATERS OF THE STATE.  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 or any portion thereof.

WASTEWATER CONTRIBUTION PERMIT.  As set forth in §§ 51.044 through 51.047 of this chapter.

WASTEWATER FACILITIES.  The structures, equipment and processes required to collect, carry away, and treat domestic and industrial wastes and dispose of the effluent.

WASTEWATER TREATMENT WORKS.  An arrangement of devices and structures for treating domestic wastewaters and sludges.
(Ord. 610.15, passed 2-2-84; Ord. passed 10-16-86; Am. Ord. 610.15, passed 6-30-92; Am. Ord. 610.17, passed 10-15-92)

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