§ 50-501. Definitions.

For the purposes of this regulation, the following definitions shall apply; words used in the singular shall include plural, and the plural, singular; words used in the present tense shall include the future tense. The word "shall" is mandatory and not discretionary. The word "may" is permissive. Words not defined herein shall be construed to have the meaning given by common and ordinary use.

Best management practices or BMPs. Schedules of activities, prohibitions of practices, maintenance procedures, treatment methods and other management practices to prevent or reduce pollutants from entering the county stormwater system or being discharged from the county stormwater system.

Clean Water Act or CWA. Public Law (PL) 92-500, as amended PL95-217, PL95-576, PL6-483, PL97-117 and 33 U.S.C. 1251 et seq., as amended by the Water Quality Act of 1987, PL100-4.

Construction activities. The alteration of land during construction and include such activities as clearing, grading and excavation.

County stormwater system (MS4). A conveyance, storage area or system of conveyances and storage areas (including, but not limited to, roads with drainage systems, streets, catch basins, curbs, gutters, ditches, manmade channels, storm drains, treatment ponds and other structural BMPs) owned or operated by a local government that discharges to waters of the United States or to other MS4s, that is designed solely for collecting, treating or conveying stormwater, and that is not part of a publicly owned treatment works (POTW), as defined by 40 Code of the Federal Register 122.2, or any context may require.

Discharge. The release of liquid, solid or gaseous material and includes, but is not limited to, a release, spilling, leaking, seeping, pouring, emitting, emptying and/or dumping of any substance of material.

Illicit connection. Point source discharge to the county's stormwater system or to waters of the United States, which is not composed entirely of stormwater and/or which is not authorized by a permit.

Illicit discharge. A discharge to the county's stormwater system or to waters of the United States which is not composed entirely of stormwater, unless exempted pursuant to this regulation, and/or the discharge to the county's stormwater system or to waters of the United States and which is not in compliance with federal, state and county permits.

Point source. Any discernible and confined conveyance including, but not limited to, any pipe, ditch, channel, conduit, well, container, rolling stocks, concentrated animal feeding operation, vessel or other floating craft from which pollutants are discharged. This term does not include return flows from irrigated agriculture.

Pollutant. Includes, but is not limited to, dredged spoil, solid waste, incinerator residue, filter backwash, sewage, garbage, sewage sludge, munitions, chemical wastes, biological materials, radioactive materials (except those regulated under the Atomic Energy Act of 1954, as amended, 42 U.S.C. 2011 et seq.), heat, wrecked or damaged equipment, rock, sand and industrial, (excepting the county's discharges) and agricultural waste discharged into the MS4, and not excluding other materials which the county manager or designee, federal or state regulatory agencies may deem appropriate to be included.

Reclaimed water. Water that has received at least advanced secondary treatment and basic disinfection and is reused after flowing out of a wastewater treatment facility.

Reuse. The deliberate application of reclaimed water, in compliance with Florida Department of Environmental Protection and/or St. Johns River Water Management District rules, for a beneficial purpose.

Runoff. The surface flow of water which results from, and occurs following, a rainfall event.

Significant construction activities. Construction activities which result in the disturbance of five acres or more of total land area.

Significant redevelopment. The alteration of an existing development which results in the increase and in the discharge of a stormwater facility beyond its previously designed and constructed capacity, or increased pollution or changed points of discharge, except emergency repairs.

Spill. Illicit discharge.

Stormwater. Surface runoff and the discharge of runoff water resulting from rainfall.

Waters of the United States. Surface and groundwaters as defined by 40 Code of the Federal Register 122.2.

(Ord. No. 2009-05, § II, 2-19-09)