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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, tifie 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 director 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 instate 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
<br />from any form of natural precipitation and resulting from such precipitation.
<br />25. SURFACE WATERS means 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.
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