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drains) owned and operated by the City and designed or used for collecting
<br />or conveying stafm wme stonmwater, and which is not used for collecting or
<br />conveying sewage.
<br />14. NATIONAL POLLUTANT DISCHARGE ELIMINATION SYSTEM
<br />(NPDES): The national program for issuing, modifying, revoking, and
<br />reissuing, terminating, monitoring, and enforcing permits, and imposing and
<br />enforcing pretreatment requirements under sections 307, 318, 402, and 405
<br />of the Clean Water Act, United States Code, title 33, sections 1317, 1328,
<br />1342, and 1345.
<br />15. PERSON: Any individual, firm, corporation, partnership, franchise,
<br />association or governmental entity.
<br />16. PERVIOUS SURFACE: Pervious areas permit water to enter the ground by
<br />virtue of their porous nature or by large voids in the material. Commonly
<br />pervious areas have vegetation growing on them.
<br />17. POLLUTANT: Any substance which, when discharged has potential to or
<br />does any of 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
<br />causes not attributable to natural stream processes affecting surface water
<br />or subsurface processes affecting groundwater;
<br />d. Adds an unnatural surface film on the water;
<br />e. Adversely changes other chemical, biological, thermal, or physical
<br />condition, in any surface water or stream chamiel;
<br />f. Degrades the quality of groundwater; or
<br />g. Harms human life, aquatic life, or terrestrial plant and wildlife; A
<br />Pollutant includes but is not limited to dredged soil, solid waste,
<br />incinerator residue, garbage, wastewater sludge, chemical waste,
<br />biological materials, radioactive materials, rock, sand, dust, industrial
<br />waste, sediment, nutrients, toxic substance, pesticide, herbicide, trace
<br />metal, automotive fluid, petroleum -based substance, wastewater, and
<br />oxygen -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
<br />the state.
<br />20. PREMISES: Any building, lot, parcel of land, or portion of land whether
<br />improved or unimproved including adjacent sidewalks and parking strips
<br />21. SANITARY SEWER: a pipe, conduit, or sewer owned, operated, and
<br />maintained by the City and which is designated by the Public Works
<br />Director as one dedicated to the exclusive purpose of carrying sanitary
<br />wastewater to the exclusion of other matter
<br />22. STATE DESIGNATED WATER USES: Uses specified in state water
<br />quality standards.
<br />23. STORM DRAINAGE SYSTEM: Publicly -owned facilities by which sto
<br />wate stonmwater is collected and/or conveyed, including but not limited to
<br />any roads with drainage systems, municipal streets, gutters, curbs, inlets,
<br />piped storm drains, pumping facilities, retention and detention basins,
<br />natural and human -made or altered drainage channels, reservoirs, and other
<br />drainage structures.
<br />24 STORM T W n TE STORMWATER: Any surface flow, runoff, or drainage
<br />consisting entirely of water from any form of natural precipitation and
<br />resulting from such precipitation.
<br />25. SURFACE WATERS means all waters of the state other than ground waters,
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