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Pollutant. Any dredged spoil, solid waste, incinerator residue, sewage, garbage, sewage
<br />sludge, munitions, chemical wastes, biological materials, radioactive materials, heat, wrecked or
<br />discharged equipment rock, sand, cellar dirt and agricultural municipal and industrial waste.
<br />Polluted. Referring to the alteration of the chemical, physical, biological and/or radiological
<br />integrity of water, air, or soil induced or made by man.
<br />POTW treatment plant (facility). That portion of the POTW designed to provide treatment to
<br />wastewater.
<br />Pretreatment or treatment. The reduction of the amount of pollutants, the elimination of
<br />pollutants, the alteration of the nature of pollutants or the alteration of the nature of pollutant
<br />properties in wastewater to a less harmful state prior to or instead of the discharge of pollutants
<br />into a POTW. Such reduction or alteration can be obtained by physical, chemical, or biological
<br />processes or other process change means, except as prohibited by 40 CFR, Section 403.6(d).
<br />Pretreatment requirements. Any requirement related to pretreatment, other than a national
<br />pretreatment standard, imposed on an industrial user.
<br />Pretreatment standard or standards. Any regulation containing pollutant discharge limits
<br />promulgated by the EPA in accordance with Section 307(b) and (c) of the Clean Water Act, which
<br />applies to industrial users. This term includes the prohibitive discharge limits established pursuant
<br />to 40 CFR, 403.5.
<br />Process Wastewater. Any water which, during manufacturing or processing, comes into direct
<br />contact with or results from the production or use of any raw material, intermediate product, by-
<br />product, waste product or finished product.
<br />Publicly owned treatment works (POTW). A treatment works as defined by Section 212 of the
<br />Act, (33 USC 1292) owned by the city, including any sewers that convey wastewater to the POTW
<br />treatment plant, but not including pipes, sewers or other conveyances not connected to a treatment
<br />facility. For article purposes, POTW shall also include any sewers that convey wastewaters to the
<br />POTW from users outside the city, who are by agreement or contract users of the POTW treatment
<br />facility.
<br />Receiving waters. All streams, lakes, ponds, marshes, watercourses, waterways, wells,
<br />springs, reservoirs, aquifers, irrigation systems, drainage systems, and all other bodies or
<br />accumulations of water, surface or underground, natural or artificial, public or private, intermittent
<br />or perennial flowing, which are contained within, flow through or border upon the state or any
<br />portion thereof.
<br />Sanitary sewer. A public sewer conveying domestic wastewater, industrial wastes, or both,
<br />into which storm water, surface water, groundwater, and other unpolluted wastes are not
<br />intentionally discharged.
<br />Shall. Shall is mandatory.
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