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drains) owned and operated by the City and designed or used for collecting 205
<br />or conveying storm waterstormwater, and which is not used for collecting or 206
<br />conveying sewage. 207
<br />14. NATIONAL POLLUTANT DISCHARGE ELIMINATION SYSTEM 208
<br />(NPDES): The national program for issuing, modifying, revoking, and 209
<br />reissuing, terminating, monitoring, and enforcing permits, and imposing and 210
<br />enforcing pretreatment requirements under sections 307, 318, 402, and 405 211
<br />of the Clean Water Act, United States Code, title 33, sections 1317, 1328, 212
<br />1342, and 1345. 213
<br />15. PERSON: Any individual, firm, corporation, partnership, franchise, 214
<br />association or governmental entity. 215
<br />16. PERVIOUS SURFACE: Pervious areas permit water to enter the ground by 216
<br />virtue of their porous nature or by large voids in the material. Commonly 217
<br />pervious areas have vegetation growing on them. 218
<br />17. POLLUTANT: Any substance which, when discharged has potential to or 219
<br />does any of the following: 220
<br />a. Interferes with state designated water uses; 221
<br />b. Obstructs or causes damage to waters of the state; 222
<br />c. Changes water color, odor, or usability as a drinking water source through 223
<br />causes not attributable to natural stream processes affecting surface water 224
<br />or subsurface processes affecting groundwater; 225
<br />d. Adds an unnatural surface film on the water; 226
<br />e. Adversely changes other chemical, biological, thermal, or physical 227
<br />condition, in any surface water or stream channel; 228
<br />f. Degrades the quality of groundwater; or 229
<br />g. Harms human life, aquatic life, or terrestrial plant and wildlife; A 230
<br />Pollutant includes but is not limited to dredged soil, solid waste, 231
<br />incinerator residue, garbage, wastewater sludge, chemical waste, 232
<br />biological materials, radioactive materials, rock, sand, dust, industrial 233
<br />waste, sediment, nutrients, toxic substance, pesticide, herbicide, trace 234
<br />metal, automotive fluid, petroleum-based substance, wastewater, and 235
<br />oxygen-demanding material. 236
<br />18. POLLUTE: To discharge pollutants into waters of the state. 237
<br />19. POLLUTION: The direct or indirect distribution of pollutants into waters of 238
<br />the state. 239
<br />20. PREMISES: Any building, lot, parcel of land, or portion of land whether 240
<br />improved or unimproved including adjacent sidewalks and parking strips 241
<br />21. SANITARY SEWER: a pipe, conduit, or sewer owned, operated, and 242
<br />maintained by the City and which is designated by the Public Works 243
<br />Director as one dedicated to the exclusive purpose of carrying sanitary 244
<br />wastewater to the exclusion of other matter 245
<br />22. STATE DESIGNATED WATER USES: Uses specified in state water 246
<br />quality standards. 247
<br />23. STORM DRAINAGE SYSTEM: Publicly-owned facilities by which storm 248
<br />waterstormwater is collected and/or conveyed, including but not limited to 249
<br />any roads with drainage systems, municipal streets, gutters, curbs, inlets, 250
<br />piped storm drains, pumping facilities, retention and detention basins, 251
<br />natural and human-made or altered drainage channels, reservoirs, and other 252
<br />drainage structures. 253
<br />24. STORM WATERSTORMWATER: Any surface flow, runoff, or drainage 254
<br />consisting entirely of water from any form of natural precipitation and 255
<br />resulting from such precipitation. 256
<br />25. SURFACE WATERS means all waters of the state other than ground waters, 257
<br />RCA Attachment B
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