The following abbreviations, when used in this chapter, shall have the designated meanings:
BOD Biochemical Oxygen Demand
CFR Code of Federal Regulations
COD Chemical Oxygen Demand
DEP Department of Environmental Protection
EPA United States Environmental Protection Agency
FAC Florida Administrative Code
FDEP Florida Department of Environmental Protection
mg/l milligrams per liter
NPDES National Pollutant Discharge Elimination System
O&M Operation and Maintenance
POTW Publicly Owned Treatment Works
RCRA Resource Conservation and Recovery Act
SIC Standard Industrial Classification
TSS Total Suspended Solids
For the purpose of this chapter, all definitions shall be applied and interpreted in accordance with Rule 62-625, F.A.C., as amended.
Act and The Act. The Federal Water Pollution Control Act, also known as the Clean Water Act of 1977, as amended, 33 U.S.C. 1251, et seq.
Approval authority. The Florida Department of Environmental Protection.
Authorized representative of the user.
(1) If the user is a corporation, a responsible corporate officer.
(2) If the user is a partnership or sole proprietorship, a general partner or proprietor, respectively.
(3) If the user is a federal, state, or local government facility: a director or highest official appointed or designated to oversee the operation and performance of the activities of the government facility, or their designee.
(4) The individuals described in paragraphs (1) through (3), above, may designate another authorized representative if the authorization is in writing by the individual described in (1) through (3) above, the authorization specifies the individual or position responsible for the overall operation of the facility from which the discharge originates or having overall responsibility for environmental matters for the company, and the written authorization is submitted to the city.
Best Management Practices or BMPs. Schedules of activities, prohibitions of practices, maintenance procedures and other management practices to implement the prohibitions listed in subsections 62-625.400(l)(a) and (2), F.A.C. BMPs also include treatment requirements, operating procedures, and practices to control plant site runoff, spillage or leaks, industrial sludge or waste disposal, or damage from raw materials storage.
Board. The South Central Regional Wastewater Treatment and Disposal Board, including, in the appropriate case, the regional treatment facilities, and all its other attendant facilities.
Board (WWF). The Board of Directors of the South Central Regional Wastewater Treatment and Disposal Board.
B.O.D. (Denoting Biochemical Oxygen Demand). The quantity of oxygen utilized in the biochemical oxidation of organic matter under standard laboratory procedures for five days at 20° centigrade, usually expressed as a concentration (e.g., mg/l).
Building sewer. Sewer conveying wastewater from the premises of a user to the collection system which transmits wastewater to the WWF.
Categorical pretreatment standard or categorical standard. Any regulation containing pollutant discharge limits promulgated by EPA in accordance with Sections 307(b) and (c) of the Act (33 U.S.C. Section 1317) which apply to a specific category of users and which appear in 40 CFR Chapter I, Subchapter N, Parts 405-471.
Categorical industrial users. An industrial user subject to categorical pretreatment standards under Rule 62-625.410, F.A.C., including 40 CFR Chapter I, Subchapter N, Parts 405 - 471, as of July 1, 2009, hereby adopted and incorporated by reference.
Chemical oxygen demand (C.O.D.). A measure of the oxygen required to oxidize all compounds, both organic and inorganic, in water.
City. The City of Boynton Beach; all that land and water area included within the boundaries of the "City" in which the Commission proposes to acquire, establish, construct, extend, operate, and maintain sanitary sewerage facilities, except as follows:
(1) All state and federally owned land and water area located in the city or county, except where the state and federal government consent to the provisions of this chapter.
(2) All land and water area duly franchised by the city or county to privately owned sewer utility companies for the provisions of sewer service, except where the privately owned sewer utility companies consent to the provisions of this chapter.
Collection system. The system of public sewers to be operated by the city and connected to the WWF facilities.
Compatible pollutant. A substance amenable to treatment in the wastewater treatment plant such as biochemical oxygen demand, suspended solids, pH, and fecal coliform bacteria, plus additional pollutants identified in the NPDES permit if the wastewater facility was designed to treat those pollutants, and in fact, does remove the pollutant to a substantial degree.
Composite sample. A series of samples taken over a specific 24-hour time period at intervals not to exceed fifteen (15) minutes in the waste stream which are combined into one sample. Flow proportional sampling is mandated unless circumstances do not permit it, then it shall be time proportional. Samples shall be taken during effluent discharge times only.
Cooling water. The water discharged from any use such as air conditioning, cooling, or refrigeration, or to which the only pollutant added is heat.
Direct discharge. The discharge of treated or untreated wastewater directly to the waters of the State of Florida.
Director of utilities, utilities director, or director. This refers to the individual in charge of the Utilities Department for the city.
Discharge. Means disposal of, deposit, place, emit, unload, release or cause or allow to be disposed of, deposited, placed, emitted, unloaded, or released.
Domestic wastewater. Wastewater derived principally from dwellings, commercial buildings, institutions, and industry resulting from household or toilet waste resulting from human occupancy. It may or may not contain ground water, surface water, or stormwater.
Environmental Protection Agency or EPA. The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, or where appropriate, the term may also be used as a designation for the Administrator or other duly authorized official of that agency.
Executive director. The administrative director or his authorized deputy, agent or representative of the South Central Regional Wastewater Treatment and Disposal Board. The Executive Director is the authorized administration authority of the South Central Regional Wastewater Treatment and Disposal Board.
Existing source. Any source of discharge that is not a "New Source."
Garbage. The animal and vegetable waste resulting from the handling, preparation, cooking, and serving of foods.
Grab sample. An individual, discrete sample collected at a specific time. A grab sample includes all sub samples or aliquots (e.g. individual containers for specific analytes or analyte groups), sample fractions (e.g. total and filtered samples) and all applicable field quality control samples (e.g. field sample duplicates or split samples) collected at the same locations within a time not exceeding 15 minutes.
Grantee. Recipient of a federal grant for all or a portion of a treatment works as administered by the Environmental Protection Agency.
Holding tank waste. Any waste from holding tanks such as vessels, chemical toilets, campers, trailers, septic tanks, and vacuum-pump tank trucks.
Indirect discharge or discharge. The introduction of non-domestic pollutants from any source regulated under Section 307(b), (c), or (d) of the Act, (33 U.S.C. 1317) and F.S. Ch. 403, into the WWF (including holding tank waste discharged into the system).
Industrial or commercial waste. The liquid wastes from industrial, commercial, or institutional processes as distinct from domestic or sanitary sewage.
Industrial and commercial waste discharge permit. A permit issued to control the process flows from industry, commerce, or institutions that may be discharged into the sanitary sewer system. This permit is issued in addition to any other types of permits. When issued, the permit will define the characteristics and volume of the flow and acceptance or rejection of individual waste components and/or require high strength waste surcharges.
Industrially classified user. An industrial or commercial user whose liquid wastes are, in part, made up of flows related to industrial or commercial activities, as distinct from an industrial or commercial user whose waste flows are primarily domestic or resulting from human occupancy.
Industrial user. A source of indirect discharge and discharge of industrial and commercial waste which does not constitute a discharge of pollutants under regulations issued pursuant to Section 402 of the Act. (33 U.S.C. 1342).
Instantaneous maximum allowable discharge limit. The maximum concentration of a pollutant allowed to be discharged at any time, determined from the analysis of any discrete or composited sample collected, independent of the industrial flow rate and the duration of the sampling event.
Interference. A discharge, which alone or in conjunction with a discharge or discharges from other sources, inhibits or disrupts the WWF, its treatment processes or operations, or its sludge processes, use or disposal; and thereafter, is a cause of a violation of the NPDES permit or of the prevention of sewage sludge use or disposal in compliance with any of the following statutory/regulatory provisions or permits hereunder, or any more stringent state or local regulations: F.S. Ch. 403; Section 405 of the Act; the Solid Waste Disposal Act, including Title II commonly referred to as the Resource Conservation and Recovery Act (RCRA); any 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.
Local limit. Specific discharge limits developed and enforced by the Director upon industrial and commercial facilities to implement the general and specific discharge prohibitions listed in Rule 62-625.400, F.A.C.
Medical waste. Isolation wastes, infectious agents, human blood and blood products, pathological wastes, sharps, body parts, contaminated bedding, surgical wastes, potentially contaminated laboratory wastes, and dialysis wastes.
Milligrams per liter (mg/l). The number of units of minor constituents present with each one million (1,000,000) units of the major constituent of a solution or mixture. Milligrams per liter shall be considered equivalent to parts per million.
Monitoring costs. Those costs incurred by the City in performing monitoring and/or sampling as prescribed by 40 CFR 403.
National categorical pretreatment standard. Any federal regulation containing pollutant discharge limits promulgated by the EPA which applies to a specific category of industrial users.
National Pollutant Discharge Elimination System or NPDES Permit. A permit issued pursuant to Section 402 of the Act (33 U.S.C. 1342).
National prohibitive discharge standard or prohibitive discharge standard. Any regulation developed under the authority of 307(b) of the Act and 40 CFR, Section 403.5
Natural outlet. Any ditch, canal, stream, waterway, lake, river, pond, well, gully, or other water body.
(1) Any building, structure, facility, or installation from which there is (or may be) a discharge of pollutants, the construction of which commenced after the publication of proposed pretreatment standards under Section 307(c) of the Act which will be applicable to such source if such standards are thereafter promulgated in accordance with that section, provided that:
a. The building, structure, facility, or installation is constructed at a site which no other source is located; or
b. The building, structure, facility, or installation totally replaces the process or production equipment that causes the discharge of pollutants at an existing source; or
c. The production of wastewater generating processes of the building, structure, facility, or installation are substantially independent of an existing source at the same site. In determining whether these are substantially independent, factors such as the extent to which the new facility is integrated with the existing plant, and the extent to which the new facility is engaged in the same general type of activity as the existing source, should be considered.
(2) Construction on a site at which an existing source is located results in a modification rather than a new source if the construction does not create a new building, structure, facility, or installation meeting the criteria of Section (1)b. or c. above but otherwise alters, replaces, or adds to existing process or production equipment.
(3) Construction of a new source as defined under this paragraph has commenced if the owner or operator has:
a. Begun, or caused to begin, as part of a continuous onsite construction program:
(i) any replacement, assembly, or installation of facilities or equipment; or
(ii) significant site preparation work including land clearing, excavation, or removal of existing buildings, structures, or facilities which is necessary for the replacement, 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 are 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 paragraph.
Noncontact cooling water. Water used for cooling which does not come into direct contact with any raw material, intermediate product, waste product, or finished product.
Non-significant categorical industrial user. An industrial user that discharges 100 gallons per day (gpd) or less of total categorical wastewater (excluding sanitary, non-contact cooling and boiler blowdown wastewater, unless specifically included in the pretreatment standard) and:
(1) Has consistently complied with all applicable categorical pretreatment standards and requirements;
(2) Annually submits the certification statement required in Sec.
26-157(h) of this Chapter together with any additional information necessary to support the certification statement; and
(3) Never discharges any untreated categorical process wastewater.
Pass through. A discharge which exits the Treatment Works into waters of the State in quantities or concentrations which, alone or in conjunction with a discharge or discharges from other sources, is a cause of a violation of any requirement of the wastewater treatment plant permit, including an increase in the magnitude or duration of a violation.
Permit. A permit issued to a wastewater treatment plant in accordance with Chapter 62-620, F.A.C.
Person. Any individual, partnership, co- partnership, firm, company, association, society, corporation, joint stock company, trust, estate,
governmental entity, group, or any other legal entity; or their legal representatives, agents, or assigns. This definition includes all Federal, State, and local entities.
Point source. The initial point of discharge into a sewer system.
pH. Logarithm of the reciprocal of the weight of hydrogen ions in grams per liter of solution; a measure of the acidity or alkalinity of a solution, expressed in standard units.
Pollutant. Any dredged spoil, solid waste, incinerator residue, filter backwash, sewage, garbage, sewage sludge, munitions, medical wastes, chemical wastes, biological materials, radioactive materials, heat, wrecked or discarded equipment, rock, sand, cellar dirt, industrial, municipal, and agricultural wastes, and certain characteristics of wastewater (e.g. pH, temperature, TSS, turbidity, color, BOD, COD, toxicity, or odor).
Pollution. The man-made or man-induced alteration of the chemical, physical, biological, and radiological integrity of water.
Pretreatment. The reduction of the amount of pollutants, the elimination of pollutants, or the alteration of the nature of pollutant properties in wastewater to a less harmful state prior to or in lieu of discharging or otherwise introducing those pollutants into a WWF. The reduction or alteration can be obtained by physical, chemical, or biological processes, or process changes or by other means, except as prohibited by 40 CFR Section 403.6(d) and 62-625.410(5), F.A.C.
Pretreatment requirements. Any substantive or procedural requirement for treating of a waste prior to inclusion in the WWF.
Pretreatment standards. National Categorical Pretreatment Standards or alternative discharge limits, whichever is applicable.
Prohibited discharge standards or prohibited discharges. Absolute prohibitions against the discharge of certain substances; these prohibitions appear in Section 26-142. Properly shredded garbage. The wastes from the preparation, cooking, and dispensing of food that have been shredded to a degree that all particles will be carried freely under the flow conditions normally prevailing in public sewers, with no particle greater than 1/2-inch (1.27 centimeters) in any dimension.
Public sewer. A sewer in which all owners of abutting properties have equal rights, and which is controlled by public authority.
Publicly Owned Treatment Works (POTW). In this case, the regional treatment plant operated by the South Central Regional Wastewater Treatment and Disposal Board, and the collection sewer system owned and operated separately by the Cities of Delray and Boynton Beach. (Also see Wastewater Facility—WWF.)
Regional treatment facilities. The South Central Regional Wastewater Treatment Plant transmission and disposal facilities as operated by the South Central Regional Wastewater Treatment and Disposal Board of Palm Beach County, Florida.
Replacement. Expenditures for obtaining and installing equipment, accessories or appurtenances which are necessary during the service life of the treatment process facilities to maintain the capacity and performance for which those facilities were designed and constructed.
Responsible Corporate Officer.
(1) A president, secretary, treasurer, or vice-president of the corporation in charge of a principle business function, or any other person who performs similar policy- or decision-making functions for the corporation; or
(2) The manager of one or more manufacturing, production, or operating facilities, provided the manager:
a. Is authorized to make management decisions which govern the operation of the regulated facility including having the explicit or implicit duty of making major capital investment recommendations;
b. Is authorized to initiate and direct other comprehensive measures to assure long-term environmental compliance with environmental laws and regulations;
c. Can ensure that the necessary systems are established or actions taken to gather complete and accurate information for control mechanism requirements;
d. Has been assigned or delegated the authority to sign documents in accordance with corporate procedures.
Sanitary sewage. The household and toilet wastes resulting from human occupancy.
Sanitary sewer. A sewer which carries sewage and to which storm, surface, and ground water are not intentionally admitted.
Septic tank waste. Any sewage from holding tanks such as vessels, chemical toilets, campers, trailers, and septic tanks.
Sewage. A combination of the water carried wastes from residences, business buildings, institutions, and industrial establishments, together with ground, surface, and stormwater that may be present.
Sewage works. All facilities for collecting, pumping, treating, and disposing of wastewater including the WWF.
Sewer. A pipe or conduit for carrying sewage.
Shall is mandatory; May is permissive.
Significant industrial user. Except as provided in paragraphs (3) and (4) below:
(1) Categorical industrial users; and
(2) Any other industrial user that:
a. Discharges an average of twenty-five thousand (25,000) gallons per day (gpd) or more of process wastewater to the Treatment Works (excluding domestic wastewater, noncontact cooling and boiler blowdown wastewater);
b. Contributes a process waste stream which makes up five (5) percent or more of the average dry weather hydraulic or organic capacity of the treatment plant; or
c. Is designated as such by the City on the basis that it has a reasonable potential for adversely affecting the Treatment Works operation or for violating any pretreatment standard or requirement.
(3) The City may determine that an industrial user subject to categorical pretreatment standards under Rule 62-625.410, F.A.C. including 40 CFR Chapter I, Subchapter N, Parts 405-471, is a non-significant categorical industrial user.
(4) Upon a finding that a user meeting the criteria in Section (B) of this definition has no reasonable potential for adversely affecting the Treatment Works operation or for violating any pretreatment standard or requirement, the City may at any time, on its own initiative or in response to a petition received from a user, and in accordance with procedures in 62-625.500(2)(e), determine that such user should not be considered a significant industrial user.
Significant non-compliance. Means that violations of this chapter by a user subject to pretreatment standards meet one or more of the following criteria:
(1) Chronic violation: 66% or more of all measurements taken for the same pollutant during a six-month period exceed (by any magnitude) a numeric pretreatment standard or requirement, including instant;
(2) Technical review criteria (TRC) violation: 33% or more of all measurements taken for the same pollutant during a six-month period equal or exceed the product of the numeric pretreatment standard or requirement including instantaneous limits, multiplied by the applicable TRC. (TRC equals 1.4 for BOD, TSS and Oil and Grease; and 1.2 for all other pollutants except pH);
(3) Any other violation of a pretreatment standard or requirement (daily maximum, long-term average, instantaneous limit, or narrative standard) that the City determines has caused, alone or in combination with other discharges, interference or pass through (including endangering the health of city or wastewater treatment plant personnel or the general public);
(4) A discharge that caused imminent endangerment to human health, welfare or to the environment and resulted in the city exercising its emergency authority;
(5) Failure to meet a compliance schedule milestone date within 90 days or more after the scheduled date contained in a control mechanism or enforcement order for starting construction, completing construction or attaining final compliance;
(6) Failure to submit a required report within forty-five (45) days of its due date;
(7) Failure to accurately report non-compliance; or
(8) Any other violation or group of violations, including a violation of best management practices, which the Director determines may cause interference or pass through or will adversely affect implementation of the city's pretreatment program.
Significant violation. A violation that remains uncorrected 45 days after notification of noncompliance; which is part of a pattern of non-compliance over a 12-month period; which involves a failure to accurately report non-compliance; or which resulted in the WWF exercising its emergency authority under Section 403.8 (F)(l)(vi)(B) of the Act.
Slug load or slug discharge. Any discharge of non-routine, episodic nature, which has reasonable potential to cause interference or pass through, or in any other way violate the treatment works regulations, local limits or permit conditions.
Standard industrial classification (SIC). Classification pursuant to the Standard Industrial Classification Manual issued by the Executive Office of the President, Office of Management and Budget, as amended.
Storm drain or storm sewer. A sewer that carries stormwater and surface water, street wash, and other wash waters or drainage, but excludes domestic wastewater and industrial and commercial waste.
Stormwater. Any flow occurring during or following any form of natural precipitation and resulting therefrom.
Superintendent. The person designated by the WWF to supervise the operation of the publicly owned treatment works and who is charged with certain duties and responsibilities by this chapter, or his or her duly authorized representative.
Surcharge. An extra charge levied to a user for treatment of compatible wastewaters that contain substances in excess of specified maximum allowable limits.
Suspended solids. Solids that are in suspension in water, sewage, or other liquids and which are removable by laboratory filtering.
Toxic pollutant. Any pollutant or combination of pollutants listed as toxic in regulations promulgated by the Administrator of the Environmental Protection Agency under the provision of CWA 307(a) or other acts.
Treatment plant. That portion of regional treatment facilities designed to provide treatment to wastewater and is operated by the South Central Regional Wastewater Treatment and Disposal Board.
Treatment works. The wastewater treatment plant, interceptors, force mains, lift stations, and collection systems.
User. Any person who contributes, causes, or permits the contribution of wastewater into the WWF.
User charge or user fee. A charge levied on the users of the treatment process facilities for the cost of operation and maintenance of those facilities and other equitable and necessary charges.
Wastewater. The liquid and water carried industrial or domestic wastes from dwellings, commercial buildings, industrial facilities, and institutions, whether treated or untreated, which is contributed into or permitted to enter the WWF.
Wastewater facility (WWF). Any or all of the following: the collection/transmission system, the treatment plant, and the reuse or disposal system.
Wastewater treatment plant. Any arrangement of devices and structures used for treating wastewater, such as the WWF.
Watercourse. A channel in which a flow of water occurs, either continuously or intermittently.
(Ord. No. 93-8, § 2, 5-18-93; Ord. No. 99-21, § 1, 8-3-99; Ord. 10-002, § 2, 1-19-10; Ord. No. 12-019, § 2, 12-4-12; Ord. No. 13-032, § 2, 11-9-13)
