§ 26-132. Definitions

For the purposes of this ordinance, the following terms shall have the following meanings:

Best Management Practices or BMPs means schedules of activities, prohibitions of practices, general good housekeeping 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 or CWA means the federal Water Pollution Control Act (33 U.S.C.§1251 et seq.), and any subsequent amendments thereto.

Construction activity means any on-site activity which will result in the creation of a new stormwater discharge, including the building, assembling, expansion, modification or alteration of the existing contours of the site, the erection of buildings or other structures, or any part thereof, or land clearing. 

Hazardous materials means 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 discharge or illegal discharge or illegal dumping means any discharge to the City's MS4 which is not entirely of stormwater, unless exempted pursuant to this ordinance, or the discharge to the City's MS4 which is not in compliance with federal, state or local permits. 

Illicit connection means either of the following: 1) any drain or conveyance, whether on the surface or subsurface, which allows an illegal or illicit discharge to enter the MS4 including but not limited to any conveyances that allow any non-storm water discharge including sewage, process wastewater, and wash water to enter the storm drain system and any connections to the MS4 from indoor drains and sinks, regardless of whether said drain or connection had been previously allowed, permitted, or approved by the City Public Works department; or 2) any drain or conveyance connected from a commercial or industrial land use to the MS4 which has not been documented in plans, maps, or equivalent records and approved by the City Public Works department.

Industrial activities means activities at facilities identified by the United States Environmental  Protection Agency as requiring an NPDES stormwater permit in accordance with 40 CFR§122.26(b)(14) or amendments thereto, or any unit operation, complex, area or multiple of unit operations that produce, generate, handle, process or cause to be processed, any materials which may cause water pollution.

Municipal separate storm sewer system or MS4 means a conveyance, storage area or system of conveyances and storage areas (including, but not limited to, roads with drainage systems, streets, catch basins, curbs, gutters, ditches, manmade channels, storm drains, treatment ponds and other structural BMPs) owned and operated by a local government that discharge to waters of the United States or to other MS4s, that are designed solely for collecting, treating or conveying stormwater and  that are not part of publicly owned treatment works (POTW) as defined by 40 CFR §122.2 or any amendments thereto.

National Pollutant Discharge Elimination System (NPDES) stormwater discharge permit means a permit issued by the Florida Department of Environmental Protection (FDEP) that authorizes the discharges of pollutants to waters of the United States. 

Non-stormwater discharge means any discharge to the storm drain system that is not composed entirely of stormwater.

Person means an individual, corporation, governmental agency, business trust, estate, trust, partnership, association, two (2) or more persons having a joint or common interest, or any other legal entity.

Pollutant means anything that causes or contributes to pollution. Pollutants may include, but are not limited to paints, varnishes, and solvents; oil and other automotive fluids; non-hazardous liquid and solid wastes and yard wastes; refuse, rubbish, garbage, litter, or other discarded or abandoned objects, and accumulations, so that same may cause or contribute to pollution; floatables; pesticides; herbicides; fertilizers; hazardous substances and wastes; sewage, fecal coliform and pathogens; dissolved and particulate metals; animal wastes; wastes and residues that result from  constructing a building or structure; and noxious or offensive matter of any kind. 

Receiving bodies of water means any water bodies, watercourses and wetlands into which surface waters flow.

Stormwater management system means the designed features of the property that collect, convey, channel, hold, inhibit or divert the movement of stormwater.

Stormwater means any surface flow, runoff, and drainage consisting entirely of water from any form of natural precipitation, and resulting from such precipitation.

Watercourse means any natural or artificial stream, creek, channel, ditch, canal, waterway, gully, ravine or wash in which water flows in a definite direction, either continuously or intermittently, and which has a definite channel, bed or banks.

Water body means any natural or artificial pond, lake, reservoir, or other area which ordinarily or intermittently contains water and which has a discernible shoreline. 

(Ord. No. 1075, § 1, 10-16-13)