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<br />MPCA.- The Minnesota Pollution Control Agency.
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<br />MUNICIPAL SEPARATE STORM SEWER SYSTEM (MS4 .
<br />. The system of
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<br />conveyances (including sidewalks, roads with drainage systems, municipal streets,, catch
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<br />basins,, curbs,, gutters,, ditches,, channels,, or storm drains), owned and operated by the City
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<br />and designed or used for collecting or conveying storm water, and which is not used for
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<br />collecting or conveying sewage.
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<br />NATIONAL POLLUTANT DISCHARGE ELIMINATION SYSTEM (NPDES)I.
<br />. The
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<br />national program for issuing, modifying, revoking, and reissuing, terminating,
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<br />monitoring, and enforcing permits, and imposing and enforcing pretreatment
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<br />requirements under sections 307, 318, 402, and 405 of the Clean Water Act, United
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<br />States Code,, title 33,, sections 131T, 1328, 1342,, and 1345.
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<br />PERSON.- Any individual, firm, corporation, partnership, franchise, association or
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<br />governmental entity.
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<br />PERVIOUS SURFACE.- Pervious areas permit water to enter the ground by virtue of
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<br />their porous nature or by large voids in the material. Commonly pervious areas have
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<br />vegetation growing on them.
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<br />POLLUTANT.- Any substance which, when discharged has potential to or does any of
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<br />the following.-
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<br />a. Interferes with state designated water uses;
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<br />b. Obstructs or causes damage to waters of the state;
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<br />c. Changes water color, odor, or usability as a drinking water source through causes not
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<br />attributable to natural stream processes affecting surface water or subsurface
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<br />processes affecting groundwater;
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<br />d. Adds an unnatural surface film on the water;
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<br />e. Adversely changes other chemical, biological, thermal, or physical condition, in any
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<br />surface water or stream channel;
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<br />f. Degrades the quality of groundwater; or
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<br />g. Harms human life, aquatic life, or terrestrial plant and wildlife; A Pollutant includes
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<br />but is not limited to dredged soil, solid waste, incinerator residue, garbage,
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<br />wastewater sludge, chemical waste, biological materials, radioactive materials, rock,
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<br />sand,, dust,, industrial waste,, sediment,, nutrients,, toxic substance,, pesticide,, herbicide,,
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<br />trace metal,, automotive fluid, petroleum-based substance,, wastewater,, and oxygen-
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<br />demanding material.
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<br />POLLUTE.- To discharge pollutants into waters of the state.
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<br />POLLUTION.- The direct or indirect distribution of pollutants into waters of the state.
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<br />PREMISES.- Any building, lot, parcel of land, or portion of land whether improved or
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<br />unimproved including adjacent sidewalks and parking strips
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<br />SANITARY SEWER.- a pipe, conduit, or sewer owned, operated, and maintained by the
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<br />City and which is designated by the Public Works Director as one dedicated to the
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<br />exclusive purpose of carrying sanitary wastewater to the exclusion of other matter
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<br />STATE DESIGNATED WATER USES.- Uses specified in state water quality standards.
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<br />STORM DRAINAGE SYSTEM.- Publicly-owned facilities by which storm water is
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<br />collected and/or conveyed, including but not limited to any roads with drainage systems,,
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<br />municipal streets, gutters, curbs, inlets, piped storm drains, pumping facilities, retention
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<br />and detention basins,, natural and human-made or altered drainage channels, reservoirs,
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<br />and other drainage structures.
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<br />STORM WATER.- Any surface flow, runoff, or drainage consisting entirely of water
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<br />from any form of natural precipitation and resulting from such precipitation.
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