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HEALTH AND SANffATION CODE
<br /> user shall be deemed to have contributed to the 61. "Premises"-A parcel of real es to including
<br /> POTWs permit violation whenever the user any improvements thereon which is determined by
<br /> a. Discharges a daily pollutant loading in the City of Stockton to be used for the purpose of
<br /> excess of that allowed by Federal,State,or local law receiving,using,and paying for a service provided by
<br /> or pursuant to the users contract,if any,with POTW; the City.
<br /> 62. "Pretreatment or treatment"-The reduction
<br /> b. Discharges wastewater which substantially of the amount of pollutants, the elimination of
<br /> differs in nature or constituents from the user's pollutants,or the alteration of the nature of pollutant
<br /> average discharge; or properties in wastewater to a less harmful state prior
<br /> c. Discharges when such user knows or has to or in lieu of discharging or otherwise introducing
<br /> reason to know that its discharge, alone or in such pollutants into a POTW. The reduction or
<br /> conjunction with discharges from other sources, alteration can'be obtained by physical, chemical,or
<br /> would result in a'permk violation;or biological processes, or process changes or other
<br /> d. Discharges when such user knows or has means, except as prohibited in 40 CFR.
<br /> reason to know that the POTW is violating the final 63. "Pretreatment requirements" - Any
<br /> effluent Umitations of its permit and the users substantive or procedural requirement related to
<br /> discharge, alone or in conjunction with discharge or pretreatment, other than a national pretreatment
<br /> discharges from other sources, increases the standard imposed on an industrial user.
<br /> magnitude or duration of the POTW's violation. 64. "Publicly-owned Treatment Works(POTW)"
<br /> 54. "Person" -Any individual, partnership,firm, -A treatment works, as defined by the Act,which is
<br /> company, corporation, association, joint stock owned by the City of Stockton. This definition
<br /> company, trust, estate, governmental entity or any includes any devices and systems used in the
<br /> other legal entity, or their legal representatives, storage, treatment, recycling, and reclamation of
<br /> agents or assigns. The masculine gender shall municipal sewage or industrial wastes of a liquid
<br /> include the feminine, and the singular shall include nature. It also includes sewers, pipes and other
<br /> the plural where indicated by the context conveyances only if they convey wastewater to a
<br /> . 55. "pW-The scale of 1 to 14 which measures POTW. The term also means the municipality, as
<br /> acidity and alkalinity; 7.0 being neutral, 0-7 being defined in the Act, which has jurisdiction over the
<br /> acidic,and 744 being basic or alkaline. Technically, indirect discharges to and the discharges from such
<br /> it is the logarithm (base 10) of the reciprocal of the a treatment works.
<br /> concentration of hydrogen ions expressed in grams 65. "Public corporation"-The City of Stockton or
<br /> per liter of solution. any political subdivision of the City, County, District,
<br /> 56. "Permittee" - The person, firm, or the State of California, or the United States of
<br /> organization to whom a permit has been issued in America,or any department or agency thereof. The
<br /> accordance with this Part singular shall include the plural.
<br /> 57. "Plumbing fixture"-Any item which contains 66.-"Pubfic sewer"' - A sewer owned and
<br /> a collection device for wastewater connected directly operated by the City of Stockton or other public
<br /> or indirectly to the sanitary sewage system,including, agency tributary to a treatment works operated by
<br /> but not limited to, a toilet, urinal, shower, tub, sink, the City of Stockton and dedicated to public use.
<br /> basin, lavatory, floor drain, or automatic washing 67. "Radioactive material" - Any material
<br /> machine. containing chemical elements which spontaneously
<br /> 58. "Point of discharge"-The point at which any change their atomic structure with the emission of
<br /> private sewer joins the public sewer lateral. atomic energy.
<br /> 59. "Pollutant" - Anything which degrades the 68. "Reclaimed water"-Water which,as a result
<br /> quality of the environment For water pollution,this of treatment of waste,is suitable for direct beneficial
<br /> may include any substance,vector,or quality(such use or a controlled use that would not otherwise
<br /> as heat)that degrades or alters the inherent quality occur.
<br /> of the water, 69. "Sanitary sewer"-A main tine sewer for the
<br /> 60. "Pollution"-An alteration of the quality of the acceptance of any sewage or liquid waste except
<br /> waters of the State by waste to a degree which storm water,surface water,groundwater,roof runoff
<br /> unreasonably affects such waters for beneficial use or other unpolluted water.
<br /> of the facilities which serve such beneficial uses. 7(). "Sewage"-Water or a combination of liquid
<br /> Pollution may Include contamination. or water containing human waste conducted away
<br /> • from residences,business buildings,and institutions
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