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pesticide; herbicide, trace metal, automotive fluid, petroleum-based substance,
<br />wastewater, and oxygen-demanding material.
<br />Subd.16 Pollute. To discharge pollutants into waters of the state.
<br />Subd.17 Pollution. The direct or indirect distribution of pollutants into waters of the
<br />state.
<br />Subd.18 Premises. Any building, lot, parcel of land, or portion of land whether
<br />improved or unimproved including adjacent sidewalks and parking strips.
<br />Subd.19 Storm Sewer System. Publicly-owned facilities by which storm water is
<br />collected and/or conveyed, including but not limited to any roads with drainage systems,
<br />municipal streets, gutters, curbs, inlets, piped storm drains, pumping facilities, retention
<br />and detention basins, natural and human-made or altered drainage channels, reservoirs,
<br />and other drainage structures.
<br />Subd.20 Storm Water. Any surface flow, runoff, or drainage consisting entirely of
<br />water from any form of natural precipitation, and resulting from such precipitation.
<br />Subd.21 Stormwater Pollution Prevention Plan (SWPPP). A document which describes
<br />the Best Management Practices and activities to be implemented by a person or business
<br />to identify sources of pollution or contamination at a site and the actions to eliminate or
<br />reduce pollutant discharges to stormwater, stormwater conveyance systems, and/or
<br />receiving waters to the Maximum Extent Practicable.
<br />Subd.22 Surface Waters. All waters of the state other than ground waters, which
<br />include ponds, lakes, rivers, streams, wetlands, ditches, and public drainage systems
<br />except those designed and used to collect, convey, or dispose of sanitary sewage.
<br />Subd.23 Wastewater. Any water or other liquid, other than uncontaminated storm
<br />water, discharged from a facility or the by-product of washing equipment or vehicles.
<br />Subd.24 Watercourse. A ditch, stream, creek, or other defined channel intended for the
<br />conveyance of water, runoff, groundwater discharge or similar hydraulic or hydrologic
<br />purpose.
<br />Subd.25 Waters of the state. All streams, lakes, ponds, marshes, watercourses,
<br />waterways, wells, springs, reservoirs, aquifers, irrigation systems, drainage systems and
<br />all other bodies or accumulations of water, surface or underground, natural or artificial,
<br />public or private, which are contained within, flow through, or border upon the state or
<br />any portion thereof.
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