83-037 ORD PROVIDING CODE OF ORDINANCES BE AMENDED BY REVISING CHAPTER 31 SECTION 31-1 AND 31-37 THROUGH SECTION 31-43 OF SAID CODE

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31) Natural Outlet - Any outlet irito a water-course, ditch, lake, or other body of surface water or groundwater. 32) New Source - Any source, construction of which begins after the publication of proposed regulations prescribing a 5ection 307 (c) (33 U.S.C. 1317) Pretreatment Standard which will be applicable to such source, if such standard is thereafter promulgated within one hundred twenty (120) days of proposal in the Federal Register. If the standard is promulgated later than one hundred twenty (120) days after proposal, a new source will be one whose construction is begun after the date of promulgation of the standard. 33) Normal Domestic Wastewater - Wastewater other than industrial wastewater discharged by a person into the sanitary sewers and containing an average twenty-four (24) hour composite concentration of not more than 250 mg/1 total suspended solids and not more than 250 mg/1 BOD. 34) Overload - Any increase in flow, BOD, suspended solids, or pollutants that would upset normal operations or cause the POTW to be non-compliant with its state or federal permits. 35) Person - Any individual, partnership, co-partnership, firm, company, corporation, association, joint stock company, trust, estate, governmental entity or any other legal entity, or their legal representatives, agents or assigns. The masculine gender shall include the feminine; the singular shall include the plural where indicated by the context. 36) pH - The logarithm (base 10) of the reciprocal of the concentration of hydrogen ions expressed in grams per liter of solution. 37) Pollutant - Any dredged spoil, solid waste, incinerator residue, sewage, garbage, sewage sludge, munitions, chemical wastes, biological materials, radioactive materials, heat, wrecked or discharged equipment, rock, sand, cellar dirt and agricultural, municipal and industrial waste dis- charged into the water. 38) Polluted - Referring to the alteration of the chemical, physical, biological and/or radiological integrity of water induced or made by rnan. 39) Pretreatment or Treatment - The reduction of the amount of pollutants, the elimination of pollutants, the alteration of the nature of pollutants, or the alteration of the nature of pollutant properties in wastewater to a less harmful state prior to or instead of the discharge of pollutants into a POTW. Such reduction or alteration can be obtained by physical, chemical or biological processes or other process change means, except as prohibited by 40 CFR Section 403. 6(d) . 40) Pretreatment Requirements - Any requirement related to pretreatment, other than a national pretreatment standard, imposed on an industrial user. 6