Section 134-3 DEFINITIONS; ABBREVIATIONS
A. The
definitions as used in Chapter 134, Sewers and
Water, pertaining to sewer and water shall be as follows for both
domestic and
industrial users, unless otherwise specifically indicated:
ACT
or THE ACT -
The Federal Water Pollution Control Act, also known as
the "Clean Water Act," as amended, 33 U.S.C. Section 1251 et seq.
ADMINISTRATIVE
OFFICER
(ADMINISTRATOR)
- The person
designated by the Front Royal Town Manager, or his duly authorized
deputy, to
administer, implement and enforce the provisions of this Article.
(Ord.
No. 2-05 Added “Administrator”
12-20-04-Effective Upon Passage)
APPROVAL
AUTHORITY
- The Virginia Department of Environmental
Quality (Virginia DEQ).
(Ord.
No. 2-05 Amended “Approval
Authority” 12-20-04-Effective Upon Passage)
AUTHORIZED
REPRESENTATIVE
OF THE INDUSTRIAL USER:
1.
Includes:
a.
The President, Secretary, Treasurer or Vice
President of a corporation in charge of a principal business function
or any
other person who performs similar policy-making or decision-making
functions
for the industrial user;
b.
The manager of one (1) or more
manufacturing, production or operation facilities, if authority
to
sign documents has been assigned or delegated to that
manager by
binding written instrument;
c.
The general partner or proprietor of a
partnership, association or sole proprietorship;
d.
The director or highest official appointed
or designated to oversee the activities of a federal, state or
local
government entity or a political subdivision thereof; or
e. The
managing member or other member of a limited liability company.
(Ord.
No. 2-05 Amended (e) 12-20-04-Effective Upon Passage)
2.
The individuals described above may
designate another authorized representative, if the authorization is
in writing and the authorization specifies the individual or
position
responsible for the overall operation of the facility from which the
discharge
originates, or the authorization may specify the individual having
overall
responsibility for environmental matters for the user. All written
authorizations
must be submitted to the Town of Front Royal for inspection prior to
any action
being taken by an authorized representative.
(Ord.
No. 4-92 Deleted (2) 4-27-92-Effective Upon Passage)
(Ord.
No. 2-05 Added (2) 12-20-04-Effective Upon Passage)
BIOCHEMICAL
OXYGEN
DEMAND (BOD)
- As determined by
Standard Methods, the quantity of oxygen utilized in the biochemical
oxidation
of organic matter under standard laboratory procedure during a period
of five
(5) days expressed in terms of weight and concentration (milligrams per
liter).
(Ord.
No. 2-05 Amended 12-20-04-Effective Upon Passage)
BUILDING
SEWER
- That part of the lowest horizontal piping
of a drainage system that receives the discharge from wastewater pipes
and
other drainage pipes inside the walls of the building and conveys it to
the
lateral sewer.
(Ord.
No. 2-05 Added 12-20-04-Effective Upon Passage)
CATEGORICAL
PRETREATMENT
STANDARD or CATEGORICAL STANDARD
- Any regulation containing pollutant discharge limits
promulgated by the EPA in accordance with Sections 307(b) and (c) of
the Act
(33 U.S.C. Section 1317) which applies to a specific category of users
and
which appears in 40 CFR Chapter 1, Subchapter N, Parts 405 - 471.
CFR
- Code of Federal Regulations.
(Ord.
No. 2-05 Added 12-20-04-Effective Upon Passage)
COD
(chemical oxygen demand) - The measure,
expressed in mg/L of the oxygen consuming capacity of inorganic and
organic
matter present in water or wastewater, expressing the amount of oxygen
consumed
from a chemical oxidant in a specific approved test, but not
differentiating
between stable and unstable organic matter and thus not necessarily
correlating
with biochemical oxygen demand.
(Ord.
No. 2-05 Added 12-20-04-Effective Upon Passage)
COLLECTOR
SEWER
- A sewer designed and constructed to receive
sewage from the building connections or laterals and other "collector
sewers" and carry it to an interceptor sewer or the point of disposal.
A "collector sewer" normally serves only a portion of one (1)
drainage area or basin.
COLOR
- The optical density at the visual
wavelength of maximum absorption, relative to distilled water.
One-
hundred-percent transmittance is equivalent to zero (0) optical
density.
COMPOSITE
SAMPLE
- The sample resulting from the combination
of individual wastewater samples taken at selected intervals (within a
24-hour
period) based either on an increment of flow or time.
(Ord.
No. 2-05 Amended 12-20-04-Effective Upon Passage)
CONTROL
AUTHORITY
- Refers to the Administrator of the
municipal wastewater system.
(Ord.
No. 2-05 Amended 12-20-04-Effective Upon Passage)
CONTROL
MANHOLE
- A manhole giving access to a building sewer
at some point before the sewer discharge mixes with other discharges in
the
public sewer.
(Ord.
No. 2-05 Added 12-20-04-Effective Upon Passage)
CONTROL
POINT
- A point of access to a source of discharge
before the discharge mixes with other discharges in the public sewer.
(Ord.
No. 4-92 Added 4-27-92-Effective Upon Passage)
(Ord.
No. 2-05 Amended 12-20-04-Effective Upon Passage)
COOLING
WATERS
- The water discharge from any use, such as
air conditioning, cooling or refrigeration or to which the
only pollutant
added is heat.
DOMESTIC
SEWAGE
- Waterborne wastes normally discharging from
the sanitary conveniences of dwellings and all other buildings and
facilities,
free from stormwater, surface water or industrial waste. "Domestic
sewage" shall contain fewer than two hundred fifty (250) parts per
million
of BOD and three hundred (300) parts per million suspended solids
and
shall originate from the normal bathing, washing, cooking and
toilet
activities of individuals.
(Ord.
No. 2-05 Amended 12-20-04-Effective Upon Passage)
DOMESTIC
USER
- A user of the Front Royal municipal
wastewater system who discharges non-industrial, domestic wastes into
said
system.
EXISTING SOURCE
- Any source of discharge, the construction
or operation of which commences prior to the publication of public
Categorical
Pretreatment Standards under Sections 307(b) and (c) (33 U.S.C. Section
1317)
of the Act which would be applicable to such source if the standard is
thereafter promulgated in accordance with Section 307 of the Act.
GRAB
SAMPLE
- A sample which is taken from a waste stream
on a one-time basis without regard to the flow in the waste stream and
without
consideration of time.
GARBAGE -
Animal and vegetable waste and residue from the preparation,
cooking and dispensing of food and from the handling, processing,
storage and
sale of food products and produce.
(Ord.
No. 2-05 Added 12-20-04-Effective Upon Passage)
HOLDING
TANK WASTE
- Any waste from holding tanks, such as
vessels, chemical toilets, campers, trailers, septic tanks and vacuum
pump tank
trucks.
(Ord.
No. 4-92 Amended 4-27-92-Effective Upon Passage)
(Ord.
No. 2-05 Amended 12-20-04-Effective Upon Passage)
INCOMPATIBLE
WASTE -
A waste which is not susceptible to adequate treatment by the
wastewater treatment plant.
(Ord.
No. 2-05 Added 12-20-04-Effective Upon Passage)
INDUSTRIAL
USER
- A user of the Front
Royal municipal wastewater system which discharges nondomestic,
industrial wastes into said system, as regulated by Sections 307(b),
(c) and
(d) of the EPA Clean Water Act.
(Ord.
No. 2-05 Amended 12-20-04-Effective Upon Passage)
INDUSTRIAL
WASTE
- All waterborne solids, liquids or gaseous
wastes resulting from any industrial manufacturing or commercial
or
food-processing operation or process or from the development of any
natural
resource, or any mixture of these wastes with domestic sewage or water.
Any sewage which does not meet the definition of domestic sewage
shall be
considered "industrial waste," regardless of the source.
INTERCEPTOR
SEWER
- A sewer designed and constructed to
intercept or receive sewage from all collector sewers and
laterals
within one (1) or more drainage areas and carry it to a larger
"interceptor sewer" or to the point of disposal.
INTERFERENCE
- A discharge which, alone or in conjunction
with a discharge or discharges from other sources either: (1) inhibits
or
disrupts the POTW, its treatment processes, or operations or its sludge
processes, use or disposal: or (2) therefore is a cause of a violation
of any
requirement of the POTWs NPDES/VPDES permit (including an increase in
the
magnitude or duration of a violation) or of the prevention of sewage
sludge use
or disposal in compliance with all applicable statutory provisions and
regulations or permits issued thereunder (or more stringent state or
local
regulations), including but not limited to the following: Section 405
of the
EPA Clean Water Act, the Solid Waste Disposal Act (Including Title II,
more
commonly referred to as the Resource Conservation and Recovery Act, and
including 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.
(Ord.
No. 2-05 Amended 12-20-04-Effective Upon Passage)
LATERAL
SEWER
- See Sewer Lateral definition.
(Ord.
No. 2-05 Added 12-20-04-Effective Upon Passage)
MEDICAL
WASTE
- Isolation waste, infectious agents, human
blood and blood byproducts, pathological wastes, sharps, body parts,
contaminated bedding, surgical wastes, etiologic agents, potentially
contaminated laboratory waste and dialysis waste.
(Ord.
No. 2-05 Amended 12-20-04-Effective Upon Passage)
MILLIGRAM
PER LITER
(mg/L) - The same as parts per million when
the specific gravity of the liquid is 1.0, and is a weight-to-volume
ratio; the
milligram per Liter value multiplied by the factor 8.34 shall be
equivalent to
pounds per million gallons of water.
(Ord.
No. 2-05 Added 12-20-04-Effective Upon Passage)
MUNICIPAL
WASTEWATER
SYSTEM
- A treatment works
as defined by Section 212 of the Act (33 U.S.C. Section 1292), which is
owned by the Town of Front Royal, including any devices or
systems used
in the collection, storage, treatment, recycling and reclamation of
domestic
sewage or industrial waste and any conveyances which convey wastewater
to a
treatment plant.
NEW
SOURCE:
1.
Any source of a discharge, the construction
of which commenced after the publication of proposed Categorical
Pretreatment Standards under Section 307(c) of the Act [33
U.S.C.
Section 1317(c)] which will be applicable to such source if the
standard is
thereafter promulgated in accordance with Section 307(c),
provided that:
a. No
other source
is located at that site;
b.
The source completely replaces the process
or production equipment of an existing source at that site; or
c.
The new wastewater generating process of
the source is substantially independent of an existing source at that
site; and
the construction of the source creates a new facility rather than
modifying an
existing source at that site.
2.
For purposes of this definition,
construction or operation has commenced if the owner or operator has:
a. Begun or caused
to begin as part of a continuous on-site construction program:
[1] Any placement,
assembly or
installment of facilities or equipment; or
[2]
Significant site preparation work,
including clearing, excavation or removal of existing buildings,
structures or facilities, which is necessary for the placement,
assembly or
installation of new source facilities or equipment; or
b.
Entered into a binding contractual obligation
for the purchase of facilities or equipment which is intended to be
used in its
operation within a reasonable time. Options to purchase or contracts
which can
be terminated or modified without substantial loss and contracts for
feasibility, engineering and design studies do not constitute a
contractual obligation under this definition.
NORMAL
USE
- Any user discharging waste of a strength
less than or equal to that of normal wastewater and at a flow rate of
less than
twenty-five thousand (25,000) gallons per day.
(Ord.
No. 2-05 Added 12-20-04-Effective Upon Passage)
NORMAL
WASTEWATER
- Wastewater discharged into the public sewer
in which none of the following average concentrations and flows are
exceeded:
1.
BOD: Less than or equal to two
hundred fifty (250) mg/L;
2.
Suspended solids: Less than or equal
to three hundred (300) mg/L;
3.
Flow: Less than twenty-five thousand
(25,000) gallons per day;
4.
No toxic or harmful substances are
present.
(Ord.
No. 2-05 Added 12-20-04-Effective Upon Passage)
NPDES
PERMIT -
National Pollutant Discharge Elimination System Permit.
(Ord.
No. 2-05 Added 12-20-04-Effective Upon Passage)
PASS-THROUGH
- A discharge which exits the treatment plant
then enters waters of the United States in quantities or concentrations
which,
alone or in conjunction with an indirect discharge or discharges from
other
sources, is a cause of a violation of any requirement of the Town's
VPDES
permit (including an increase in the magnitude or duration of a
violation).
PERSON
- Any individual, partnership, corporation,
firm, company, association, joint-stock company, trust, estate or
any
other legal entity, and his or its representatives, agents or assigns,
specifically to include all federal, state or local governmental
entities.
PLANT
-
The Town of front Royal Wastewater Treatment
Facility.
(Ord.
No. 2-05 Added 12-20-04-Effective Upon Passage)
POLLUTANT
- Any dredged spoil, solid waste, incinerator
residue, filter backwash, sewage, garbage, sewage sludge,
munitions,
medical wastes, chemical wastes, industrial wastes, biological
materials,
radioactive materials, heat, wrecked or discarded equipment, rock,
sand, cellar
dirt and agricultural waste and certain characteristics of wastewater
(e.g. pH,
temperature, TSS, turbidity, color, BOD, COD, toxicity or odor).
(Ord.
No. 2-05 Amended 12-20-04-Effective Upon Passage)
PRETREATMENT
OR
TREATMENT -
The reduction of the amount of the
pollutants, the elimination of pollutants or the alteration of the
nature of
pollutant properties in wastewater, thereby rendering the pollutants
less
harmful to the municipal wastewater system prior to introducing
pollutants into
said system. The reduction or alteration can be obtained by
physical, chemical or biological processes, by process changes or by
other
means, but not by diluting the concentration of pollutants, unless
allowed by
an applicable "pretreatment" standard.
PRETREATMENT
STANDARD
AND REQUIREMENTS
- All applicable
federal rules and regulations (including specifically those regulations
found
in 40 CFR, Chapter 1, Subchapter N, Parts 405-471) implementing Section
307 of
the Federal Water Pollution Control Act and the Clean Water Act of
1977,
including prohibited standards, as amended, as well as nonconflicting
state and
local standards. In case of conflict or regulations, the most stringent
thereof
shall be applied.
(Ord.
No. 2-05 Amended 12-20-04-Effective Upon Passage)
PROHIBITIVE
DISCHARGE
STANDARDS OR PROHIBITIVE DISCHARGE
- Absolute prohibitions against the discharge of certain types
of industrial wastewater as specifically set forth in this Article.
RECEIVING
STREAM OR
WATER 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 or public or
private,
which are contained within, flow through or border upon the state or
any
portion thereof.
SANITARY
SEWER
- A pipe or conduit which carries domestic
sewage and/or industrial waste and to which stormwater, surface water
and
groundwater and other unpolluted waters are not intentionally admitted.
(Ord.
No. 2-05 Amended 12-20-04-Effective Upon Passage)
SEWER
LATERAL
- A pipe which receives sewage from a
building and carries it to the collector or interceptor sewer.
SIGNIFICANT
INDUSTRIAL
USER
- This term means:
1.
All Categorical Users; and
2.
Non-Categorical Users that:
a. Discharge
twenty-five (25,000) gallons or more of process wastewater per day; or
b.
Discharge process wastewater which makes up
five (5) percent or more of the dry weather average hydraulic or
organic
capacity of the treatment works; or
c.
Have in the Town's opinion, a reasonable
potential to adversely affect the treatment works (causing
pass-through,
interference, sludge contamination or danger to the POTW).
(Ord.
No. 2-05 Amended 12-20-04-Effective Upon Passage)
SIGNIFICANT
NON-COMPLIANCE
- Industrial user
violations meeting one or more of the following criteria:
(Ord.
No. 2-05 Replaced “Violater”
with “Non-Compliance 12-20-04-Effective Upon Passage)
1.
Sixty-six percent (66%) or more of
wastewater measurements taken during a six-month period
exceed the
discharge limit for the same pollutant parameter by any amount.
2.
Thirty-three percent (33%) or more of
wastewater measurements taken during a six-month period equal or exceed
the
product of the daily maximum limit or the average limit multiplied by
the
applicable criteria [one and four-tenths (1.4) for BOD, TSS,
fats, oils
and grease, and one and two-tenths (1.2) for all other pollutants
except pH].
3.
Any other discharge violation that the Town
believes has caused, alone or in combination with other discharges,
interference or pass-through (including endangering the health of Town
personnel or the general public).
4.
Any discharge of pollutants that has caused
imminent endangerment to the public or to the environment or has
resulted in
the Town's exercise of its emergency authority to halt or prevent such
a
discharge.
5.
Failure to meet, within ninety (90) days of
the scheduled date, a compliance schedule milestone contained in a
permit or
enforcement order for starting construction, completing construction or
attaining final compliance.
6.
Failure to provide, within thirty (30) days
after the due date, any required reports, including baseline monitoring
reports, ninety-day compliance reports, periodic self-monitoring
reports and
reports on compliance with compliance schedules.
7.
Failure to report
noncompliance.
8.
Any other violation or group of violations
which the Town determines will adversely affect the operation or
implementation
of the pretreatment program.
(Ord.
No. 2-05 Added (8) 12-20-04-Effective Upon Passage)
SLUG
LOAD OR SLUG
- Any pollutants (including BOD) released in
a discharge flow rate or concentration which would cause a violation of
specific discharge prohibitions.
STANDARD
INDUSTRIAL
CLASSIFICATION (SIC) CODE
- A classification pursuant to the Standard Industrial
Classification
Manual issued by the Executive Office of the President of the United
States or
the Federal Office of Management and Budget (OMB).
STANDARD
METHODS
- The examination and analytical procedures
set forth in the latest edition, at the time of analysis, of Standard
Methods
for the Examination of Water and Wastewater, as prepared, approved and
published jointly by the American Public Health Association, the
American Water
Works Association and the Water Pollution Control Federation.
(Ord.
No. 2-05 Added 12-20-04-Effective Upon Passage)
STORMWATER
- Any flow occurring during or following any
form of natural precipitation or resulting therefrom, including
snowmelt.
SUSPENDED
SOLIDS
- Solids measured in mg/L. The total
suspended matter that floats on the surface of or is suspended in
water,
wastewater or other liquid and which is removable by laboratory
filtering.
(Ord.
No. 2-05 Amended 12-20-04-Effective Upon Passage)
TOWN
- The Town of Front Royal, Virginia, which
may act through its Town Manager or his or her duly authorized agents.
(Ord.
No. 2-05 Amended 12-20-04-Effective Upon Passage)
TO
DISCHARGE -
Includes to deposit, conduct, drain, emit, throw, run,
allow to seep or otherwise release or dispose of, or to allow, permit
or suffer
any of these acts or omissions.
(Ord.
No. 2-05 Added 12-20-04-Effective Upon Passage)
TOXIC
POLLUTANT
- Any pollutant or combination of pollutants
listed as toxic in regulations promulgated by the Environmental
Protection Agency under the provisions of Section 307 of the Act (33
U.S.C.
Section 1317).
TREATMENT
PLANT
EFFLUENT
- Any discharge of
pollutants from the municipal wastewater system designed to
provide
treatment of domestic sewage and industrial waste.
(Ord.
No. 2-05 Amended Title 12-20-04-Effective Upon Passage)
UNPOLLUTED
WASTEWATER -
Water containing:
1.
No
free or emulsified grease or oil.
2.
No
acids or alkalis.
3.
No
phenols or other substances producing taste or odor in the receiving
water.
4.
No
toxic or poisonous substances in suspension, colloidal state or
solution.
5.
No
noxious or otherwise obnoxious or odorous gases.
6.
Not
more than ten (10) mg/L each of suspended solids and BOD.
7. Color not exceeding fifty (50)
units, as
measured by the platinum-cobalt method or
determination
as specified in Standard
Methods.
(Ord.
No. 2-05 Added 12-20-04-Effective Upon Passage)
USEPA
(or EPA) -
The United States Environmental Protection Agency, or a
duly authorized official of said agency.
(Ord.
No. 2-05 Added 12-20-04-Effective Upon Passage)
USER
- Any person who contributes or causes or
allows the contribution of sewage or industrial wastewater into the
municipal
wastewater system, including persons who contribute such wastes from
mobile
sources.
(Ord.
No. 2-05 Added 12-20-04-Effective Upon Passage)
WASTEWATER
- The liquid in water-carried industrial
waste or domestic sewage, whether treated or untreated, which
is contributed to the municipal wastewater system.
Abbreviations.
The following abbreviations shall have the
designated meanings:
BOD
- Biochemical Oxygen Demand
CFR
- Code of Federal Regulations
COD
- Chemical Oxygen Demand
EPA
- United States Environmental Protection Agency
gpd
- Gallons per day
L
- Liter
mg
- Milligrams
mg/L
- Milligrams per liter
O
& M - Operation and Maintenance
pCi
- Common Unit of Radioactivity
pH
- Measure of Acidity or
Alkalinity of
A Substance
POTW
- Publicly Owned Treatment Works
RCRA
- Resource Conservation and Recovery Act
SIC
- Standard Industrial Classification
SWDA
- Solid Waste Disposal Act (42 U.S.C. Section 6901 et seq.)
TSS
- Total Suspended Solids
USC
- United States Code
VPDES-
Virginia Pollutant Discharge Elimination System
(Ord.
No. 4-92 Amended Entire Section 4-27-92-Effective Upon
Passage)
(Ord.
No. 2-05 Removed (B) “LC50” &
Added “pCi” & Amended Title of Section
12-20-04-Effective Upon
Passage)