Chapter 134 SEWERS AND WATER.
Section 134-3 DEFINITIONS; ABBREVIATIONS.
A. The definitions as used in Chapter 134, Sewers and Water, pertaining to sewer
and water
shall be as follows for both domestic and industrial users, unless otherwise specifically indicated:
ACT or THE ACT - The Federal Water Pollution Control Act, also
known as the "Clean
Water Act," as amended, 33 U.S.C. Section 1251 et seq.
ADMINISTRATIVE OFFICER (ADMINISTRATOR) - The person designated by the Front
Royal Town Manager, or his duly authorized deputy, to administer, implement and enforce the
provisions of this Article.
APPROVAL AUTHORITY - The Virginia Department of Environmental Quality (Virginia
DEQ).
AUTHORIZED REPRESENTATIVE OF THE INDUSTRIAL USER:
1. Includes:
a. The President, Secretary, Treasurer or Vice President of a corporation in charge of a principal
business function or any other person who performs similar policy-making or decision-making
functions for the industrial user;
b. The manager of one (1) or more manufacturing, production or operation facilities, if
authority
to sign documents has been assigned or delegated to that manager by binding written
instrument;
c. The general partner or proprietor of a partnership, association or sole proprietorship;
d. The director or highest official appointed or designated to oversee the activities of a federal,
state or local government entity or a political subdivision thereof; or
e. The managing member or other member of a limited liability company.
(Ord. 2-05 Added (e) 12-20-04-Effective Upon Passage)
2. The individuals described above may designate another authorized representative,
if the
authorization is in writing and the authorization specifies the individual or position responsible
for the overall operation of the facility from which the discharge originates, or the authorization
may specify the individual having overall responsibility for environmental matters for the user.
All written authorizations must be submitted to the Town of Front Royal for inspection prior to
any action being taken by an authorized representative.
BIOCHEMICAL OXYGEN DEMAND (BOD) - As determined by Standard Methods, the
quantity of oxygen utilized in the biochemical oxidation of organic matter under standard
laboratory procedure during a period of five (5) days expressed in terms of weight and
concentration (milligrams per liter).
BUILDING SEWER - That part of the lowest horizontal piping of a drainage system
that
receives the discharge from wastewater pipes and other drainage pipes inside the walls of the
building and conveys it to the lateral sewer.
(Ord. No. 2-05 Added 12-20-04-Effective Upon Passage)
CATEGORICAL PRETREATMENT STANDARD or CATEGORICAL STANDARD - Any
regulation containing pollutant discharge limits promulgated by the EPA in accordance with
Sections 307(b) and (c) of the Act (33 U.S.C. Section 1317) which applies to a specific category
of users and which appears in 40 CFR Chapter 1, Subchapter N, Parts 405 - 471.
CFR - Code of Federal Regulations.
(Ord. No. 2-05 Added 12-20-04-Effective Upon Passage)
COD (chemical oxygen demand) - The measure, expressed in mg/L of the oxygen
consuming
capacity of inorganic and organic matter present in water or wastewater, expressing the amount
of oxygen consumed from a chemical oxidant in a specific approved test, but not differentiating
between stable and unstable organic matter and thus not necessarily correlating with biochemical
oxygen demand.
(Ord. No. 2-05 Added 12-20-04-Effective Upon Passage)
COLLECTOR SEWER - A sewer designed and constructed to receive sewage from the
building connections or laterals and other "collector sewers" and carry it to an interceptor
sewer
or the point of disposal. A "collector sewer" normally serves only a portion of
one (1) drainage
area or basin.
COLOR - The optical density at the visual wavelength of maximum absorption,
relative to
distilled water. One- hundred-percent transmittance is equivalent to zero (0) optical density.
COMPOSITE SAMPLE - The sample resulting from the combination of individual wastewater
samples taken at selected intervals (within a 24-hour period) based either on an increment of
flow or time.
CONTROL AUTHORITY - Refers to the Administrator of the municipal wastewater
system.
CONTROL MANHOLE - A manhole giving access to a building sewer at some
point before
the sewer discharge mixes with other discharges in the public sewer.
(Ord. No. 2-05 Added 12-20-04-Effective Upon Passage)
CONTROL POINT - A point of access to a source of discharge before the discharge
mixes
with other discharges in the public sewer.
(Ord. No. 2-05 Added 12-20-04-Effective Upon Passage)
COOLING WATERS - The water discharge from any use, such as air conditioning,
cooling or
refrigeration or to which the only pollutant added is heat.
DOMESTIC SEWAGE - Waterborne wastes normally discharging from the sanitary
conveniences of dwellings and all other buildings and facilities, free from stormwater, surface
water or industrial waste. "Domestic sewage" shall contain fewer than two hundred fifty (250)
parts per million of BOD and three hundred (300) parts per million suspended solids and shall
originate from the normal bathing, washing, cooking and toilet activities of individuals.
DOMESTIC USER - A user of the Front Royal municipal wastewater system who discharges
non-industrial, domestic wastes into said system.
EXISTING SOURCE - Any source of discharge, the construction or operation of
which
commences prior to the publication of public Categorical Pretreatment Standards under Sections
307(b) and (c) (33 U.S.C. Section 1317) of the Act which would be applicable to such source if
the standard is thereafter promulgated in accordance with Section 307 of the Act.
GRAB SAMPLE - A sample which is taken from a waste stream on a one-time basis
without
regard to the flow in the waste stream and without consideration of time.
GARBAGE - Animal and vegetable waste and residue from the preparation,
cooking and
dispensing of food and from the handling, processing, storage and sale of food products and
produce.
(Ord. No. 2-05 Added 12-20-04-Effective Upon Passage)
HOLDING TANK WASTE - Any waste from holding tanks, such as vessels, chemical
toilets,
campers, trailers, septic tanks and vacuum pump tank trucks.
INCOMPATIBLE WASTE - A waste which is not susceptible to
adequate treatment by the
wastewater treatment plant.
(Ord. No. 2-05 Added 12-20-04-Effective Upon Passage)
INDUSTRIAL USER - A user of the Front Royal municipal wastewater system
which
discharges nondomestic, industrial wastes into said system, as regulated by Sections 307(b), (c)
and (d) of the EPA Clean Water Act.
INDUSTRIAL WASTE - All waterborne solids, liquids or gaseous wastes resulting
from any
industrial manufacturing or commercial or food-processing operation or process or from the
development of any natural resource, or any mixture of these wastes with domestic sewage or
water. Any sewage which does not meet the definition of domestic sewage shall be considered
"industrial waste," regardless of the source.
INTERCEPTOR SEWER - A sewer designed and constructed to intercept or receive
sewage
from all collector sewers and laterals within one (1) or more drainage areas and carry it to a
larger "interceptor sewer" or to the point of disposal.
INTERFERENCE - A discharge which, alone or in conjunction with a discharge or
discharges
from other sources either: (1) inhibits or disrupts the POTW, its treatment processes, or
operations or its sludge processes, use or disposal: or (2) therefore is a cause of a violation of any
requirement of the POTWs NPDES/VPDES permit (including an increase in the magnitude or
duration of a violation) or of the prevention of sewage sludge use or disposal in compliance with
all applicable statutory provisions and regulations or permits issued thereunder (or more stringent
state or local regulations), including but not limited to the following: Section 405 of the EPA
Clean Water Act, the Solid Waste Disposal Act (Including Title II, more commonly referred to as
the Resource Conservation and Recovery Act, and including state regulations contained in any
state sludge management plan prepared pursuant to Subtitle D of the Solid Waste Disposal Act),
the Clean Air Act, the Toxic Substances Control Act and the Marine Protection Research and
Sanctuaries Act.
LATERAL SEWER - See Sewer Lateral definition.
(Ord. No. 2-05 Added 12-20-04-Effective Upon Passage)
MEDICAL WASTE - Isolation waste, infectious agents, human blood and blood byproducts,
pathological wastes, sharps, body parts, contaminated bedding, surgical wastes, etiologic agents,
potentially contaminated laboratory waste and dialysis waste.
MILLIGRAM PER LITER (mg/L) - The same as parts per million when the specific
gravity of
the liquid is 1.0, and is a weight-to-volume ratio; the milligram per Liter value multiplied by the
factor 8.34 shall be equivalent to pounds per million gallons of water.
(Ord. No. 2-05 Added 12-20-04-Effective Upon Passage)
MUNICIPAL WASTEWATER SYSTEM - A treatment works as defined by Section 212 of
the Act (33 U.S.C. Section 1292), which is owned by the Town of Front Royal, including any
devices or systems used in the collection, storage, treatment, recycling and reclamation of
domestic sewage or industrial waste and any conveyances which convey wastewater to a
treatment plant.
NEW SOURCE:
1. Any source of a discharge, the construction of which commenced after the
publication of
proposed Categorical Pretreatment Standards under Section 307(c) of the Act [33 U.S.C.
Section 1317(c)] which will be applicable to such source if the standard is thereafter promulgated
in accordance with Section 307(c), provided that:
a. No other source is located at that site;
b. The source completely replaces the process or production equipment of an existing source at
that site; or
c. The new wastewater generating process of the source is substantially independent of an
existing source at that site; and the construction of the source creates a new facility rather than
modifying an existing source at that site.
2. For purposes of this definition, construction or operation has commenced
if the owner or
operator has:
a. Begun or caused to begin as part of a continuous on-site
construction program:
[1] Any placement, assembly or installment of facilities or equipment; or
[2] Significant site preparation work, including clearing,
excavation or removal of existing
buildings, structures or facilities, which is necessary for the placement, assembly or installation
of new source facilities or equipment; or
b. Entered into a binding contractual obligation for the purchase
of facilities or equipment
which is intended to be used in its operation within a reasonable time. Options to purchase or
contracts which can be terminated or modified without substantial loss and contracts for
feasibility, engineering and design studies do not constitute a contractual obligation under this
definition.
NORMAL USE - Any user discharging waste of a strength less than or equal
to that of normal
wastewater and at a flow rate of less than twenty-five thousand (25,000) gallons per day.
(Ord. No. 2-05 Added 12-20-04-Effective Upon Passage)
NORMAL WASTEWATER - Wastewater discharged into the public sewer in which none
of
the following average concentrations and flows are exceeded:
1. BOD: Less than or equal to two hundred fifty (250) mg/L;
2. Suspended solids: Less than or equal to three hundred (300) mg/L;
3. Flow: Less than twenty-five thousand (25,000) gallons per day;
4. No toxic or harmful substances are present.
(Ord. No. 2-05 Added 12-20-04-Effective Upon Passage)
NPDES PERMIT - National Pollutant Discharge Elimination System Permit.
(Ord. No. 2-05 Added 12-20-04-Effective Upon Passage)
PASS-THROUGH - A discharge which exits the treatment plant then enters waters
of the
United States in quantities or concentrations which, alone or in conjunction with an indirect
discharge or discharges from other sources, is a cause of a violation of any requirement of the
Town's VPDES permit (including an increase in the magnitude or duration of a violation).
PERSON - Any individual, partnership, corporation, firm, company, association,
joint-stock
company, trust, estate or any other legal entity, and his or its representatives, agents or assigns,
specifically to include all federal, state or local governmental entities.
PLANT - The Town of front Royal Wastewater Treatment Facility.
(Ord. No. 2-05 Added 12-20-04-Effective Upon Passage)
POLLUTANT - Any dredged spoil, solid waste, incinerator residue, filter
backwash, sewage,
garbage, sewage sludge, munitions, medical wastes, chemical wastes, industrial wastes,
biological materials, radioactive materials, heat, wrecked or discarded equipment, rock, sand,
cellar dirt and agricultural waste and certain characteristics of wastewater (e.g. pH, temperature,
TSS, turbidity, color, BOD, COD, toxicity or odor).
PRETREATMENT STANDARD AND REQUIREMENTS - All applicable federal rules and
regulations (including specifically those regulations found in 40 CFR, Chapter 1, Subchapter N,
Parts 405-471) implementing Section 307 of the Federal Water Pollution Control Act and the
Clean Water Act of 1977, including prohibited standards, as amended, as well as nonconflicting
state and local standards. In case of conflict or regulations, the most stringent thereof shall be
applied.
PRETREATMENT OR TREATMENT - The reduction of the amount of the pollutants,
the
elimination of pollutants or the alteration of the nature of pollutant properties in wastewater,
thereby rendering the pollutants less harmful to the municipal wastewater system prior to
introducing pollutants into said system. The reduction or alteration can be obtained by
physical,
chemical or biological processes, by process changes or by other means, but not by diluting the
concentration of pollutants, unless allowed by an applicable "pretreatment" standard.
PROHIBITIVE DISCHARGE STANDARDS OR PROHIBITIVE DISCHARGE - Absolute
prohibitions against the discharge of certain types of industrial wastewater as specifically set
forth in this Article.
RECEIVING STREAM OR WATER OF THE STATE - All streams, lakes, ponds, marshes,
watercourses, waterways, wells, springs, reservoirs, aquifers, irrigation systems, drainage
systems and all other bodies or accumulations of water, surface or underground, natural or
artificial or public or private, which are contained within, flow through or border upon the state
or any portion thereof.
SANITARY SEWER - A pipe or conduit which carries domestic sewage and/or industrial
waste and to which stormwater, surface water and groundwater and other unpolluted waters are
not intentionally admitted.
SEWER LATERAL - A pipe which receives sewage from a building and carries it
to the
collector or interceptor sewer.
SIGNIFICANT INDUSTRIAL USER - This term means:
1. All Categorical Users; and
2. Non-Categorical Users that:
a. Discharge twenty-five (25,000) gallons or
more of process wastewater per day; or
b. Discharge process wastewater which makes up five (5) percent or more of the dry weather
average hydraulic or organic capacity of the treatment works; or
c. Have in the Town's opinion, a reasonable potential to adversely affect the treatment works
(causing pass-through, interference, sludge contamination or danger to the POTW).
SIGNIFICANT NON-COMPLIANCE - Industrial user violations meeting one or more
of the
following criteria:
1. Sixty-six percent (66%) or more of wastewater measurements taken during
a six-month
period exceed the discharge limit for the same pollutant parameter by any amount.
2. Thirty-three percent (33%) or more of wastewater measurements taken during
a six-month
period equal or exceed the product of the daily maximum limit or the average limit multiplied by
the applicable criteria [one and four-tenths (1.4) for BOD, TSS, fats, oils and grease, and one
and two-tenths (1.2) for all other pollutants except pH].
3. Any other discharge violation that the Town believes has caused, alone or
in combination
with other discharges, interference or pass-through (including endangering the health of Town
personnel or the general public).
4. Any discharge of pollutants that has caused imminent endangerment to the
public or to the
environment or has resulted in the Town's exercise of its emergency authority to halt or prevent
such a discharge.
5. Failure to meet, within ninety (90) days of the scheduled date, a compliance
schedule
milestone contained in a permit or enforcement order for starting construction, completing
construction or attaining final compliance.
6. Failure to provide, within thirty (30) days after the due date, any required
reports, including
baseline monitoring reports, ninety-day compliance reports, periodic self-monitoring reports and
reports on compliance with compliance schedules.
7. Failure to report noncompliance.
8. Any other violation or group of violations which the Town determines will
adversely affect
the operation or implementation of the pretreatment program.
(Ord. No. 2-05 Added (8) 12-20-04-Effective Upon Passage)
SLUG LOAD OR SLUG - Any pollutants (including BOD) released in a discharge flow
rate
or concentration which would cause a violation of specific discharge prohibitions.
STANDARD INDUSTRIAL CLASSIFICATION (SIC) CODE - A classification pursuant
to
the Standard Industrial Classification Manual issued by the Executive Office of the President of
the United States or the Federal Office of Management and Budget (OMB).
STANDARD METHODS - The examination and analytical procedures set forth in the
latest
edition, at the time of analysis, of Standard Methods for the Examination of Water and
Wastewater, as prepared, approved and published jointly by the American Public Health
Association, the American Water Works Association and the Water Pollution Control
Federation.
(Ord. No. 2-05 Added 12-20-04-Effective Upon Passage)
STORMWATER - Any flow occurring during or following any form of natural precipitation
or resulting therefrom, including snowmelt.
SUSPENDED SOLIDS - Solids measured in mg/L. The total suspended matter that
floats on
the surface of or is suspended in water, wastewater or other liquid and which is removable by
laboratory filtering.
TOWN - The Town of Front Royal, Virginia, which may
act through its Town Manager or
his or her duly authorized agents.
TO DISCHARGE - Includes to deposit, conduct, drain, emit, throw,
run, allow to seep or
otherwise release or dispose of, or to allow, permit or suffer any of these acts or omissions.
(Ord. No. 2-05 Added 12-20-04-Effective Upon Passage)
TOXIC POLLUTANT - Any pollutant or combination of pollutants listed as toxic
in
regulations promulgated by the Environmental Protection Agency under the provisions of
Section 307 of the Act (33 U.S.C. Section 1317).
TREATMENT PLANT EFFLUENT - Any discharge of pollutants from the municipal
wastewater system designed to provide treatment of domestic sewage and industrial waste.
UNPOLLUTED WASTEWATER - Water containing:
1. No free or emulsified grease or oil.
2. No acids or alkalis.
3. No phenols or other substances producing taste or
odor in the receiving water.
4. No toxic or poisonous substances in suspension,
colloidal state or solution.
5. No noxious or otherwise obnoxious or odorous gases.
6. Not more than ten (10) mg/L each of suspended solids
and BOD.
7. Color not exceeding fifty (50) units, as measured by the
platinum-cobalt method or
determination as specified in Standard Methods.
(Ord. No. 2-05 Added 12-20-04-Effective Upon Passage)
USEPA (or EPA) - The United States Environmental Protection Agency, or
a duly authorized
official of said agency.
USER - Any person who contributes or causes or allows the contribution of sewage
or
industrial wastewater into the municipal wastewater system, including persons who contribute
such wastes from mobile sources.
WASTEWATER - The liquid in water-carried industrial waste or domestic sewage,
whether
treated or untreated, which is contributed to the municipal wastewater system.
B. Abbreviations. The following abbreviations shall have the designated
meanings:
BOD - Biochemical Oxygen Demand
CFR - Code of Federal Regulations
COD - Chemical Oxygen Demand
EPA - United States Environmental Protection Agency
gpd - Gallons per day
L - Liter
mg - Milligrams
mg/L - Milligrams per liter
O & M - Operation and Maintenance
pCi - Common Unit of Radioactivity
pH - Measure of Acidity or Alkalinity
of A Substance
POTW - Publicly Owned Treatment Works
RCRA - Resource Conservation and Recovery Act
SIC - Standard Industrial Classification
SWDA - Solid Waste Disposal Act (42 U.S.C. Section 6901 et seq.)
TSS - Total Suspended Solids
USC - United States Code
VPDES- Virginia Pollutant Discharge Elimination System
(Ord. No. 4-92 Amended Entire Section 4-27-92-Effective Upon Passage)
(Ord. No. 2-05 Amended Entire Section 12-20-04-Effect
i
ve Upon Passage)