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Allowable non-storm water discharges means discharges expressly allowed pursuant to a Rhode Island Pollutant Discharge Elimination System Permit. In accordance with part I.B.3 of the General Permit Rhode Island Pollutant Discharge Elimination System Storm Water Discharge from Small Municipal Separate Storm Sewer Systems and from Industrial Activity at Eligible Facilities Operated by Regulated Small MS4s and provided such discharges are not deemed significant contributors of pollutants, defined as a discharge or source of pollutants identified by the city and/or State as having a reasonable potential to cause or contribute to an in-stream excursion above the applicable water quality standard including designated uses or designated as a significant contributor of pollutants to the MS4 or waters of the state as designated through a TMDL or other water quality determination provisions in accordance with rule 31 (a)(1)(vii) and rule 31(a)(1)(viii), to the MS4, allowable non-storm water discharges may include, but are limited to the following: (1)
Discharges which result from the wash down of vehicles at retail dealers selling new and used automobiles where no detergents are used and individual residential car washing.
(2)
External building wash down where no detergents are used.
(3)
Use of water to control dust.
(4)
Firefighting activities.
(5)
Fire hydrant flushings.
(6)
Natural springs.
(7)
Uncontaminated groundwater.
(8)
Dechlorinated pool discharges.
(9)
Air conditioning condensate.
(10)
Lawn watering.
(11)
Potable water sources including waterline flushings.
(12)
Irrigation drainage.
(13)
Pavement washwaters where spills or leaks of toxic or hazardous materials have not occurred (unless all spilled materials have been removed) and where detergents are not used.
(14)
Discharges from foundation or footing drains where flows are not contaminated with process materials such as solvents, or contaminated by contact with soils where spills or leaks of toxic or hazardous materials have occurred.
(15)
Uncontaminated utility vault dewatering.
(16)
Dechlorinated water line testing water.
(17)
Hydrostatic test water that does not contain any treatment chemicals and is not contaminated with process chemicals.
(18)
Discharges from sump pumps where flows are not contaminated with process materials such as solvents, nor contaminated with wastes, nor contaminated by contact with hazardous materials.
Authorized enforcement agent for the purposes of this chapter, means the director of the city department of public works or his/her representative, who is a city employee, director, agent, officer, or consultant acting to implement or enforce this chapter.
Discharge(s) means the addition of any pollutant to municipal separate storm sewer system from any point source.
Illicit discharge(s) means any discharge to the municipal separate storm sewer system that is not composed entirely of storm water with the exception of allowable non-storm water discharges expressly allowed pursuant to a Rhode Island Pollutant Discharge Elimination System Permit, provided such discharges are not deemed significant contributors of pollutants to the MS4.
Municipal separate storm sewer system or MS4 means a conveyance or system of conveyances (including roads with drainage systems, municipal streets, catch basins, ditches, man-made channels, or storm drains): (1)
Owned or operated by the city.
(2)
Designed or used for collecting or conveying storm water.
(3)
Which is not a combined sewer.
(4)
Which is not part of a sanitary sewer.
Operator means the party or parties that either individually or taken together have the day-to-day operational control over activities at the facility and the ability to make modifications to such activities.
Owner means the party or parties that either individually or taken together has legal title to any premise.
Person means an individual, trust, firm, joint stock company, corporation (including a quasi-governmental corporation) partnership, association, syndicate, municipality, municipal or state agency, fire district, club, non-profit agency or any subdivision, commission, department, bureau, agency or department of state or federal government (including quasi-governmental corporation) or of any interstate body and any agent or employee thereof.
Point source(s) means any discernible, confined, and discrete conveyance, including but not limited to any pipe, ditch, channel, tunnel, conduit, well, discrete fissure, container, rolling stock, concentrated animal feeding operation, or vessel, or other floating craft, from which pollutants are or may be discharged. This term does not include return flows from irrigated agriculture.
Pollutant(s) means any dredged material, solid waste, incinerator residue, sewage, garbage, sewage sludge, sediment, filter backwash, munitions, chemical wastes, biological materials, radioactive materials, heat, wrecked or discarded equipment, rock, sand, cellar dirt, industrial or municipal or agricultural waste or effluent, petroleum or petroleum products, including but not limited to oil; or any material which will likely alter the physical, chemical, biological, or radiological characteristics and/or integrity of water, such as agricultural waste, pet waste, litter, yard waste or hazardous waste.
RIPDES means the Rhode Island pollutant discharge elimination system.
(Ord. No. O-16-16, § I, 8-17-16)