§ 42-183. Definitions.

Unless specifically defined below, words or phrases used in this division shall be interpreted so as to give them the meaning they have in common usage and to give this division its most reasonable application.

Accidental discharge shall be defined as a discharge prohibited by this division into the City of Fayetteville Drainage System which occurs by chance and without planning or consideration prior to occurrence.

City of Fayetteville Drainage System shall mean any facility designed or used for collecting and/or conveying stormwater, including but not limited to any roads with drainage systems, highways, streets, curbs, gutters, inlets, catch basins, piped storm drains, pumping facilities, structural stormwater controls, ditches, swales, natural and man-made or altered drainage channels, reservoirs, and other drainage structures, which are:

(1)

Owned or maintained by the City of Fayetteville

(2)

Not a combined sewer; and

(3)

Not part of a publicly owned treatment works.

City of Fayetteville Water Quality Best Management Practices for Stormwater Management Guidance Manual shall mean the manual developed by the City of Fayetteville to provide an overview of design criteria for selected stormwater management facilities that remove and reduce pollutants from stormwater runoff.

Clean Water Act shall mean the Federal Water Pollution Control Act, as amended (33 U.S.C. 1251 et seq.).

Conveyance shall mean features both natural and artificial that provide for the movement of stormwater runoff through the drainage system to any state water.

City manager shall mean the city manager of the City of Fayetteville or his designated representative.

Development activity shall mean man-made change to improved or unimproved real estate, including, but not limited to, buildings or other structures, mining, dredging, filling, grading, paving, excavating, drilling operations, or permanent storage of materials or equipment.

Discharge shall mean the release of treated or untreated stormwater runoff or other material to the City of Fayetteville Drainage System.

Drainage system shall mean a conveyance or system of conveyances designed and used for collecting or conveying stormwater runoff.

Georgia Stormwater Management Manual shall mean the stormwater design manual developed and distributed by the Atlanta Regional Commission (ARC).

Hazardous material shall mean a flammable, highly corrosive, acidic or toxic material as identified in the Official Code of Georgia (O.C.G.A. § 12-14-1) in the "Oil and Hazardous Materials Spill Reporting" requirements.

Illicit discharge shall mean a discharge to City of Fayetteville's drainage system that is not composed entirely of stormwater runoff except discharges pursuant to a NPDES permit (other than the NPDES permit for discharges from the City of Fayetteville's drainage system).

Impervious surface shall mean surfaces that more readily promote horizontal conveyance of stormwater runoff instead of allowing vertical infiltration. Impervious surfaces are defined as paved parking surfaces, concrete areas, rooftops, cement soil areas, compacted graded base material areas, and any other areas that readily promote horizontal flow of stormwater runoff rather than vertical infiltration. Pervious pavers, meeting the requirements of the Georgia Stormwater Management Manual section 3.3.8 for Modular Porous Paver Systems, will be given credit from impervious surface calculations. Pervious paver systems shall be considered 50 percent pervious and 50 percent impervious for purposes of the calculations. Pervious pavers shall be allowed for use on 25 percent of the parking spaces in a parking lot. Pervious pavers are not allowed for use as driveways, or where traffic volumes are high or where heavy duty pavement is needed.

Maximum extent practicable shall mean best management practices, control techniques, system design or engineering methods and any other provisions which can be economically and reasonably implemented to reduce the discharge of pollutants to City of Fayetteville's Drainage System.

Land-disturbing activity shall mean any activity which may result in soil erosion from water or wind and the movement of sediments into state waters or onto lands within the state, including, but not limited to, clearing, dredging, grading, excavating, transporting, and filling of land.

Person shall mean any and all persons, natural or artificial, and includes any individual, firm, corporation, government agency, business trust, estate, trust, partnership, association, two or more persons having a joint or common interest, or any other legal entity.

Pervious surface shall mean surfaces that promote vertical infiltration of stormwater runoff instead of horizontal flow. Pervious surfaces are defined as natural areas, vegetated landscape areas, stormwater detention areas, non-compacted gravel landscape areas and any other areas that readily promote vertical infiltration rather than horizontal flow of stormwater runoff.

Pollution shall mean the contamination or other significant alteration of any water's physical, chemical or biological properties, including, but not limited to, a change in temperature, taste, color, turbidity, or odor of such waters or the discharge of any liquid, gaseous, solid, radioactive, or other substance into any such waters as will or is likely to render such waters harmful, detrimental or injurious to the public health, safety or welfare or to domestic, commercial, industrial, agricultural, recreational, or other legitimate beneficial uses, or to livestock, wild animals, birds, fish or other aquatic life.

Pollutant shall mean any impurity or waste material that degrades the physical, chemical, biological or radiological integrity of surface or subsurface waters.

Private shall mean property or facilities owned by individuals, corporations, and other organizations and not by city, county, state, or federal government.

Project shall mean the entire proposed development project regardless of the size of the area of land to be disturbed.

Stormwater management shall mean the collection, conveyance, storage, treatment and disposal of stormwater runoff.

Stormwater management facility shall mean constructed or natural components of a stormwater drainage system, designed to perform a particular function, or multiple functions, including but not limited to, pipes, swales, ditches, culverts, street gutters, detention basins, retention basins, constructed wetlands, infiltration devices, catch basins, oil/water separators, sediment basins, natural systems and modular pavement.

Stormwater runoff shall mean the direct response of a land surface to precipitation and includes the surface and subsurface runoff that enters a stormwater conveyance system or other concentrated flow during and following a precipitation event.

Treatment shall mean removal or reduction in pollutants as it relates to the degraded physical, chemical, biological or radiological integrity of surface or subsurface waters. Treatment methods implemented under this division shall address pollutant removal/reduction in all forms including, but not limited to, free floating, solid, dissolved, debris/trash and solids/sediments.

Water quality shall mean those characteristics of stormwater runoff that relate to the physical, chemical, biological or radiological integrity of surface or subsurface waters.

(Ord. No. 0-26-02, § 1, 6-20-02; Ord. No. 0-7-08, art. 1, 4-3-08)