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<br /> <br /> <br /> <br /> <br /> <br /> the alteration of the nature of pollutants, or the <br /> alteration of the nature of pollutant properties in <br /> wastewater to a less harmful state prior to or <br /> instead of the discharge of pollutants into a <br /> POTW. Such reduction or alteration can be <br /> obtained by physical, chemical or biological pro- <br /> cesses or other process change means, except as <br /> prohibited by 40 CFR Section 403.6 (d). <br /> 39} Yretreatment Requirements - Any requirement <br /> related to pretreatment, other than a national <br /> pretreatment standard, imposed on an industrial <br /> user. <br /> 40) Publicly Owned Treatment Works (POTW) - A <br /> treatment works as defined by Section 212 of the <br /> Act, (33 U.S.C. 1292) owned by the City, <br /> including any sewers that convey wastewater to <br /> the POTW treatment plant, but not including <br /> pipes, sewers or other conveyances not connected <br /> to a treatment facility. <br /> For ordinance purposes, POTW shall also include <br /> any sewers that convey wastewaters to the POTW <br /> from users outside the City, who are by agree- <br /> ment or contract users of the POTW treatment <br /> facility . <br /> 41) POTW Treatment Plant (Facility) - That portion of <br /> the POTW designed to provide treatment to waste- <br /> water. <br /> 42) Public Sewer - Pipe or conduit carrying waste- <br /> water or unpolluted drainage in which owners of <br /> abutting properties have the use, subject to the <br /> requirements and limitations imposed by the City <br /> of Paris, Paris, Texas. <br /> <br /> 43) Receiving Waters - All streams, lakes, ponds, <br /> marshes, watercourses, waterways, wells, <br /> springs, reservoirs, aquifers, irrigation systems, <br /> drainage systems, and all other bodies or accumu- <br /> lations of water, surface of underground, natural <br /> or artificial, public or private, intermittant or <br /> perennial flowing, which are contained within, <br /> flow through, or border upon the state of Texas <br /> or any portion thereof. <br /> 44) Sanitary Sewer - A public sewer conveying <br /> domestic wastewater, industrial wastes, or both, <br /> into which storm water, surface water, <br /> groundwater, and other unpolluted wastes are not <br /> intentionally discharged. <br /> 45) Shall - is mandatory; May is permissive. <br /> 46) Significant Industrial User - Any industrial user <br /> of the City POTW who: <br /> <br /> a) discharges 25,000 gallons or more per day, <br /> or <br /> b) discharges a flow greater than 5$ of the <br /> total daily flow in the city's wastewater <br /> treatment facility, or <br /> c) discharges in his waste toxic pollutants as <br /> defined pursuant to Section 307 of the Act of <br /> state of Texas statutes and rules, or <br /> <br /> <br /> <br /> <br /> <br /> 5 <br />