sweeping, shoveling, or blowing. This does NOT include using water to clean the
<br /> surface.
<br /> 12. MPCA: The Minnesota Pollution Control Agency.
<br /> 13. MUNICIPAL SEPARATE STORM SEWER SYSTEM (MS4): The system of
<br /> conveyances (including sidewalks,roads with drainage systems, municipal streets, catch
<br /> basins, curbs, gutters, ditches, channels, or storm drains) owned and operated by the City
<br /> and designed or used for collecting or conveying storm water, and which is not used for
<br /> collecting or conveying sewage.
<br /> 14. NATIONAL POLLUTANT DISCHARGE ELIMINATION SYSTEM (NPDES): The
<br /> national program for issuing,modifying, revoking, and reissuing, terminating,
<br /> monitoring, and enforcing permits, and imposing and enforcing pretreatment
<br /> requirements under sections 307, 318, 402, and 405 of the Clean Water Act, United
<br /> States Code, title 33, sections 1317, 1328, 1342, and 1345.
<br /> 15. PERSON: Any individual, firm, corporation,partnership, franchise, association or
<br /> governmental entity.
<br /> 16. PERVIOUS SURFACE: Pervious areas permit water to enter the ground by virtue of
<br /> their porous nature or by large voids in the material. Commonly pervious areas have
<br /> vegetation growing on them.
<br /> 17. POLLUTANT: Any substance which, when discharged has potential to or does any of
<br /> the following:
<br /> a. Interferes with state designated water uses;
<br /> b. Obstructs or causes damage to waters of the state;
<br /> c. Changes water color, odor, or usability as a drinking water source through causes not
<br /> attributable to natural stream processes affecting surface water or subsurface
<br /> processes affecting groundwater;
<br /> d. Adds an unnatural surface film on the water;
<br /> e. Adversely changes other chemical, biological, thermal, or physical condition, in any
<br /> surface water or stream channel;
<br /> f. Degrades the quality of groundwater; or
<br /> g. Harms human life, aquatic life, or terrestrial plant and wildlife; A Pollutant includes
<br /> but is not limited to dredged soil, solid waste, incinerator residue, garbage,
<br /> wastewater sludge, chemical waste,biological materials, radioactive materials, rock,
<br /> sand, dust, industrial waste, sediment, nutrients, toxic substance,pesticide, herbicide,
<br /> trace metal, automotive fluid,petroleum-based substance, wastewater, and oxygen-
<br /> demanding material.
<br /> 18. POLLUTE: To discharge pollutants into waters of the state.
<br /> 19. POLLUTION: The direct or indirect distribution of pollutants into waters of the state.
<br /> 20. PREMISES: Any building, lot, parcel of land, or portion of land whether improved or
<br /> unimproved including adjacent sidewalks and parking strips
<br /> 21. SANITARY SEWER: a pipe, conduit, or sewer owned, operated, and maintained by the
<br /> City and which is designated by the Public Works Director as one dedicated to the
<br /> exclusive purpose of carrying sanitary wastewater to the exclusion of other matter
<br /> 22. STATE DESIGNATED WATER USES: Uses specified in state water quality standards.
<br /> 23. STORM DRAINAGE 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 /> 24. STORM WATER: Any surface flow,runoff, or drainage consisting entirely of water
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