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3 <br /> <br />8. Certificate of Compliance. A document, written after a compliance inspection, certifying that a system <br />is in compliance with applicable requirements at the time of the inspection. <br />9. Certified. - aAn individual who is included on the agency’s certification list and is qualified to perform <br />appropriate tasks associated with the certification. <br />10. Certified Statement. A statement signed by a certified individual, apprentice, or Qqualified Eemployee <br />under Minnesota Rules, cChapter 7083 certifying that the licensed business or qQualified Eemployee <br />completed work in accordance with applicable requirements. <br />11. Cesspool. An underground pit, receptacle, or seepage tank that receives sewage directly from a building <br />sewer and leaches sewage into the surrounding soil, bedrock, or other soil materials. Cesspools include <br />sewage tanks that were designed to be watertight, but subsequently leak below the designed operating <br />depth. <br />1.12. Class V Injection Well. A shallow well used to place a variety of fluids directly below the land surface, <br />which includes a domestic SSTS serving more than twenty (20) people. The U.S. Environmental <br />Protection Agency (EPA) and delegated state groundwater programs permit these wells to inject wastes <br />below the ground surface provided they meet certain requirements and do not endanger underground <br />sources of drinking water. Class V motor vehicle waste disposal wells and large-capacity cesspools are <br />specifically prohibited (see 40 CFR Parts 144 & 146). <br />2.13. Cluster System. A SSTS under some form of common ownership that collects wastewater from two <br />or more dwellings or buildings and conveys it to a treatment and dispersal system located on an acceptable <br />site near the dwellings or buildings. <br />3.14. City. City of Gem Lake, Ramsey County, Minnesota. <br />4.15. City Council. The City of Gem Lake City Council. <br />5.16. Department. The City of Gem Lake Department designated by the City Council to administer <br />SSTSthis ordinance. <br />6.17. Design Flow. The daily volume of wastewater for which a SSTS is designed to treat and discharge. <br />18. Dwelling. Any building with provision for living, sanitary, and sleeping facilities. <br />7.19. Flood Plain. The channel or beds proper and the areas adjoining a wetland, <br />watercoursewatercourse, or lake which a regional flood may have or could hereafter cover. Floodplain <br />areas within the City shall include all areas shown as Zone A or Zone AE on the flood insurance rate map. <br />Refer to the City Floodplain Flood Hazard OrdinanceGem Lake City Ordinance No. 114 for further <br />definitions. <br />8.20. Failure to Protect Groundwater. At a minimum, a SSTS that does not protect groundwater is <br />considered to be a seepage pit, cesspool, drywell, leaching p iut, or other putpit; a SSTS with less than the <br />required vertical separation distance, described in Minnesota Rules, Chapter 7080.1500 Subd. 4 D and E; <br />and a system not abandoned in accordance with Chapter 7080.2500. The determination of the threat to <br />groundwater for other conditions must shall be made by a Qualified Employee or an individual SSTS- <br />licensed inspection business pursuant to Section 40-237 hereof. <br />21. Hazardous Waste. Any substance that, when discarded, meets the definition of hazardous waste in <br />Minnesota Statutes, section 116.06, subdivision 11. <br />22. Holding Tank. A tank for storage of sewage until it can be transported to a point of treatment and <br />dispersal. Holding tanks are considered a septic system tank under Minnesota Statutes, section 115.55.