§ 24-102. Definition of terms.

Unless the context specifically indicates otherwise, the following terms and phrases, as used in this article shall have the meanings hereinafter designated:

Act or "the Act" means the Federal Water Pollution Control Act, also known as the Clean Water Act (CWA), as amended, 33 U.S.C. 1251, et seq.

Approval authority means the Secretary of the Florida Department of Environmental Protection or other duly designated representative of that agency.

Assessment means:

(1)

The process of making the official valuation of property for purposes of taxation.

(2)

The valuation placed property as a result of this process.

(3)

The charge against any particular parcel of land within the boundaries of irrigation, water, sewer, drainage, or other district created for the purpose of constructing improvements, or a share of the total cost of such improvements, usually based on the proportionate benefits received by such parcel as a result of the improvement.

Assessments, special means a direct tax levy assessed against property to pay for property improvements that ordinarily are a direct benefit to the property itself.

Assets mean any real property and property rights that are of value to and owned by the board.

Authority means a department or unit of a public agency created to perform a single function or a restricted group of related activities. Usually such units are financed from service charges, fees, and tolls, but in some instances they also have taxing powers. An authority may be completely independent of other governments for its creation, its financing, or the exercise of certain powers.

Authorized or duly authorized representative of the user means:

(1)

If the user is a corporation:

a.

The president, secretary, treasurer, or a vice-president of the corporation in charge of a principal business function, or any other person who performs similar policy or decision-making functions for the corporation; or

b.

The manager of one or more manufacturing, production, or operating facilities., provided the manager is authorized to make management decisions that govern the operation of the regulated facility including having the explicit or implicit duty of making major capital investment recommendations, and initiate and direct other comprehensive measures to assure long-term environmental compliance with environmental laws and regulations; can ensure that the necessary systems are established or actions taken to gather complete and accurate information for individual wastewater discharge permit requirements; and where authority to sign documents has been assigned or delegated to the manager in accordance with corporate procedures.

(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 governmental 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 a duly authorized representative if the authorization is in writing, 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 County

Best management practices (BMPs) mean schedules of activities, prohibitions of practices, maintenance procedures, and other management practices to implement the prohibitions listed in subsections 62-625.400(1)(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 drainage from raw materials storage.

Betterment means an addition made to, or change made in, a fixed or capital asset which is expected to prolong its life, expand its capacity, or increase its efficiency beyond initial design parameters and over and above that arising from maintenance, and the cost of which is therefore added to the book value of the asset. The term is sometimes applied to sidewalks, sewers, and highways, but it is preferable to designate these as "improvements." See also improvements.

Biochemical oxygen demand (BOD) means the quantity of oxygen utilized in the biochemical oxidation of organic matter under standard laboratory procedures for five days at 20 degrees centigrade, usually expressed as a concentration (e.g., milligrams per liter).

Board means the Board of County Commissioners of Okaloosa County, Florida.

Building drain means that part of the piping of a building which collects sewage inside the walls of the building and conveys it to outside the building wall.

Building sewer means the extension from the building drain to the public sewer laterals or other place of disposal. Also called house connection.

Bypass means the intentional diversion of wastewater streams from any portion of an industrial user's treatment facility.

Capital means property of a permanent nature or intended for long continued use or possession, employed in or necessary for the conduct of an undertaking, and representing the investment of money or its equivalent. Examples include trucks, meters, pumps, and motors.

Capital costs means cost of major rehabilitation, betterments, expansion or upgrading required as facilities reach the end of their useful life.

Categorical industrial user means 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 through 471, as of July 1, 2009, hereby adopted and incorporated by reference.

Categorical standards means National Categorical Pretreatment Standards.

Chemical oxygen demand (COD) means a measure of the oxygen required to oxidize all compounds, both organic and inorganic in water, usually expressed as a concentration (e.g., milligrams per liter).

Cities mean all incorporated cities or towns or their city councils in Okaloosa County, Florida.

City administrator means the person designated by the city council to administer all city activities.

City council means the duly elected officials of the cities.

Collection system (sewer) means the sewer lines and appurtenances used and useful in the collection and conveyance of sewerage. See also "sanitary sewer."

Commercial user (customer) means all retail stores, restaurants, office buildings, laundries, and other private business and service establishments.

Composite sample means a collection of individual samples obtained at regular intervals, usually every one or two hours during a 24-hour time span. Each individual sample is combined with the others in proportion to the rate of flow when the sample was collected. The resulting mixture (composite sample) forms a representative sample and is analyzed to determine the average conditions during the sampling period.

Consistent removal means the average of the lowest 50 percent of the removal measured in accordance with subsection 62-625.420(2), F.A.C.

Control authority shall refer to the Director of Okaloosa County Water and Sewer designated by the Board of County Commissioners of Okaloosa County, Florida.

Cooling water means the water discharged from any use such as air conditioning, cooling or refrigeration, or to which the only pollutant added is heat.

County means Okaloosa County, Florida.

Customer (user) means every person who is responsible for contracting (expressly or implicitly) with the board in obtaining, having or using water or connections with water or sewer taps to the water or sewer system of the board and in obtaining, having, or using water or sewer and other related services furnished by the board for the purpose of using water and disposing of sewage through said sewer system. Said term shall not include the occupants of each unit of a multiple-family dwelling unit building. They are a separate and distinct customer or user.

Daily maximum means the arithmetic average of all effluent samples for a pollutant collected during a calendar day.

Daily maximum limit means the maximum allowable discharge limit of a pollutant during a calendar day. Where daily maximum limits are expressed in units of mass, the daily discharge is the total mass discharged over the course of the day. Where daily maximum limits are expressed in terms of a concentration, the daily discharge is the arithmetic average measurement of the pollutant concentration derived from all measurements taken that day.

Direct discharge means the discharge of treated or untreated sewage directly to the waters of the State of Florida.

Director means the Director of the Okaloosa County Water and Sewer Department or his/her designee.

Discharge means the introduction of pollutants into a WWF from any non-domestic source regulated under Chapter 403, Florida Statutes.

Easement means an acquired legal right for the specific use of land owned by others.

Enterprise fund means a fund established to account for operations (a) that are financed and operated in a manner similar to private business enterprises where the intent of the governing body is that the costs (expenses, including depreciation) of providing goods or services to the general public on a continuing basis be financed or recovered primarily through user charges; or (b) where the governing body has decided that periodic determination of revenues earned, expenses incurred, and/or net income is appropriate for capital maintenance, public policy, management control, accountability, or other purposes. Examples of enterprise funds are those for water, sewer, gas, and electric utilities; swimming pools; airports; parking garages; and transit systems.

Environmental Protection Agency or EPA means 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 said agency.

Existing source means any source of discharge that is not a "new source."

Fixed means permanent property, such as land, buildings, sewer collection pipelines, tanks, rights and benefits (tangible and intangible), permanently employed in the rendering of a service or in the production of a product.

Floatable oil means oil, fat or grease in a physical state such that it will separate by gravity from sewage by treatment in an approved pretreatment sewage facility. Sewage shall be considered free of floatable fat if it is properly pretreated and the sewage does not interfere with the sewage collection system.

Flush toilet means the common flush commode in general use for the disposal of human excrement.

Garbage means the animal and vegetable waste resulting from the handling, preparation, cooking and serving of foods.

Governmental shall include legislative, judicial, administrative, and regulatory activities of federal, state, and local governments.

Governmental user includes legislative, judicial, administrative, and regulatory activities of federal, state and local governments.

Grab sample means 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.

Health officer means the Okaloosa County Environmental Health Director.

Holding tank sewage means any sewage from holding tanks such as vessels, chemical toilets, campers, trailers, septic tanks, cesspools, and vacuum-pump tank trucks.

Improvements means buildings, other structures, and other attachments or annexations to land which are intended to remain so attached or annexed, such as sidewalks, trees, drives, tunnels, drains, and sewers. Sidewalks, curbing, sewers, and highways are sometimes referred to as "betterments", but the term "improvements" is preferred.

Indirect discharge means the discharge or the introduction of non-domestic pollutants from any source regulated under Section 307(b) or (c) of the CWA, (33 U.S.C. 1317), into the POTW (including holding tank sewage discharged into the system).

Industrial user shall include any non-governmental, non-residential user of publicly owned sewer treatment works which is identified in the Standard Industrial Classification Manual, 1972, Office of Management and Budget, as amended and supplemented, under the following divisions: Division A-Agriculture, Forestry, and Fishing; Division B Mining; Division D Manufacturing; Division E Transportation, Communications, Electric, Gas and Sanitary; and Division I Services.

Industrial waste surcharge means the charge made in excess of the sewer service charge for all sewage over and above normal domestic sewage (wastewater).

Industrial wastes mean the sewage from industrial processes as distinct from domestic sewage.

Infiltration/inflow means groundwater and surface water which leaks into the sewers through cracked pipes, joints, manholes or other openings.

Instantaneous limit means 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.

Institutional user includes social, charitable, religions and educational activities such as schools, churches, hospitals, nursing homes, penal institutions and similar institutional users.

Intangible means any element of value applied to permanent property of a non-physical nature such as a franchise, trademark, patent, copyright, good will, cost of organizing, developing, and establishing; also, such items as going value, right of access, water right, and power right.

Interference means the inhibition or disruption of the POTW treatment processes or operations which contributes to a violation of any requirement of the POTW operating permit. The term includes prevention of sewage sludge use or disposal by the POTW in accordance with 405 of the CWA, (33 U.S.C. 1345) or any criteria, guidelines, or regulations developed pursuant to the Solid Waste Disposal Act (SWDA), the Clean Air Act, the Toxic Substances Control Act, or more stringent state criteria (including those contained in any state sludge management plan prepared pursuant to Title IV of SWDA) applicable to the method of disposal or use employed by the POTW.

Local limit means specific discharge limits developed and enforced by the county upon industrial or commercial facilities to implement the general and specific discharge prohibitions listed in 40 CFR 403.5(a)(1) and (b).

Maximum allowable industrial loading means the total mass of a pollutant that all industrial users and other controlled sources may discharge without causing pass through or interference.

Medical waste means 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.

Method detection limit or "MDL" means an estimate of the minimum amount of a substance that an analyte process can reliably detect. An MDL is analyte-specific and matrix-specific and is laboratory dependent.

Monthly average means the sum of all "daily discharges" measured during a calendar month divided by the number of "daily discharges" measured during that month.

Monthly average limit means the highest allowable average of "daily discharges" over a calendar month, calculated as the sum of all "daily discharges" measured during a calendar month divided by the number of "daily discharges" measured during that month.

National Categorical Pretreatment Standard means any regulation containing pollutant discharge limits promulgated by the EPA in accordance with Section 307(b) and (c) of the CWA (33 U.S.C. 1347) which applies to a specific category of industrial users.

National Pollution Discharge Elimination System or NPDES permit means a permit issued pursuant to Section 402 of the CWA (33 U.S.C. 1342).

National prohibitive discharge standard or prohibitive discharge standard means any regulation developed under the authority of Section 307(b) of the CWA and 40 CFR, Section 403.5.

Natural outlet means any outlet, including storm sewers and combined sewer overflows, into a watercourse, pond, ditch, lake or other body or surface of groundwater.

Normal domestic wastewater (sewage) means sewage discharged into the sewers in which the average concentration of total suspended solids and BOD is not more than 250 mg/l, total phosphorus is not more than 15 mg/l, total Kjeldahl nitrogen is not more than 30 mg/l; and total flow is not more than 25,000 gallons per day.

New source means:

(1)

Any building, structure, facility or installation from which there is or may be a discharge. The construction of which commenced after the publication of proposed pretreatment standards under Section 307(c) of the CWA 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 at which no other source is located,

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 or 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 shall 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 subparagraph (1)b. or (1)c. above but otherwise alters, replaces, or adds to existing process or production equipment; or

(3)

Construction of a new source, as defined in this chapter, has commenced if the owner or operator has:

a.

Begun, or caused to begin as part of a continuous on-site construction program:

1.

Any placement, assembly, or installation of facilities or equipment, or

2.

Significant site preparation work including clearing, excavation, or removal of existing buildings, structures, or facilities which is necessary for the placement, assembly, or installation of new source facilities or equipment.

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 rule.

Non-contact cooling water means water used for cooling that does not come into direct contact with any raw material, intermediate product, waste product or finished product.

Non-significant categorical industrial user means 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 subsection 62-625.600(17), F.A.C., together with any additional information necessary to support the certification statement; and

(3)

Never discharges any untreated categorical process wastewater.

Operation and maintenance means those functions that result in expenditures during the useful life of the water or sewage works for materials, labor, utilities, and other items which are necessary for managing and maintaining the water or sewage works to achieve the capacity and performance for which such works were designed and constructed. The term "operation and maintenance" includes replacement.

Pass through means a discharge which exits the WWF 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 WWF's permit (including an increase in the magnitude or duration of a violation).

Permit means a permit issued to a WWF in accordance with Chapter 62-620, F.A.C.

Person means any individual, partnership, co-partnership, firm, company, governmental entity or any other legal entity, or their legal representatives, agents or assigns. The masculine gender shall include the feminine, the singular shall include the plural where indicated by the context. This definition includes all Federal, State, and local governmental entities.

pH means a measure of the acidity or alkalinity of a solution, expressed in standard units.

Physical. See "assets, tangible" below.

Pit privy means shored, vertical pit in the earth completely covered with a flytight slab on which is securely located a flytight riser covered with hinged flytight seat and lid.

Pollutant means 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, municipal, agricultural and industrial wastes, and certain characteristics of wastewater (e.g., pH, temperature, TSS, turbidity, color, BOD, COD, toxicity, or odor).

Pollution means the manmade or man-induced alteration of the chemical, physical, biological, and radiological integrity of water.

POTW means public owned treatment works.

POTW wastewater treatment plant means that portion of the POTW designed to provide treatment to sewage.

Pretreatment or treatment means the reduction of the amount of pollutants, the elimination of pollutants, the alteration of the nature of pollutants or the alteration of the nature of pollutant properties in sewage to a less harmful state prior to or in lieu of discharging or otherwise introducing such pollutants into a POTW. The reduction or alteration can be obtained by physical, chemical or biological processes, or by process changes or other means, except as prohibited by 40 CFR Section 403.6(d).

Pretreatment program means a program administered by a public utility that meets the criteria established in Rule 62-625.500, F.A.C.

Pretreatment requirements means any substantive or procedural requirement related to pretreatment, other than a National Pretreatment Standard imposed on an industrial or commercial user.

Pretreatment standard means any regulation containing pollutant discharge limits promulgated by the EPA under Sections 307(b) and (c) of the CWA or by the Department under Chapter 403, Florida Statutes., which applies to industrial users. This term includes prohibitive discharge limits established in Rule 62-625.400, F.A.C.

Prohibited discharge standards or prohibited discharges means absolute prohibitions against the discharge of certain substances. These prohibitions appear in section 24-234 of this article.

Properly shredded garbage means the sewage from the preparation, cooking, and dispensing of food that has been shredded to such a degree that all particles will be carried freely under the flow conditions normally prevailing in public sewers, with no particle greater than one-half-inch in any dimension.

Public sewer means a common sewer controlled by the board and is owned and maintained by the board in public rights-of-way or easements.

Publicly owned treatment works (POTW) means a treatment works as defined by Section 212 of the CWA, (33 U.S.C. 1292) which is owned in this instance by the board. This definition includes any sewers that convey sewage to the POTW but does not include pipes, sewers or other conveyances not connected to a facility providing wastewater treatment. For the purposes of this article, "POTW" shall also include any sewers that convey sewage to the POTW from persons outside the cities who are, by contract or agreement with the cities, users of the cities POTW.

Readiness to serve charge means a charge levied on a user of the water or sewage system which includes a user charge, a charge for capital reserve and debt service, other charges for current services, or all of these.

Removal means a reduction in the amount of a pollutant in the WWF's effluent or alteration of the nature of a pollutant during treatment at the WWF. The reduction or alteration can be obtained by physical, chemical or biological means and may be the result of specifically designed WWF capabilities or may be incidental to the operation of the treatment system. Removal as used in this chapter shall not mean dilution of a pollutant in the WWF.

Replacement means the expenditures for obtaining and installing equipment, accessories or appurtenances which are necessary during the useful life of the treatment plant to maintain the capacity and performance for which such plants were designed and constructed. The term "operations and maintenance" ("O&M") includes replacement.

Residential (domestic) user means any contributor to the sewage system whose lot, parcel or real estate or building is used for residential (domestic) dwelling purposes only.

Responsible corporate officer means:

(1)

A president, secretary, treasurer, or vice-president of the corporation in charge of a principal 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 sewer means a sewer that carries liquid and water-carried wastes from residences, commercial buildings, industrial facilities, and institutions together with minor quantities of ground, storm and surface waters that are not admitted intentionally.

Septage means septic tank waste or waste from portable toilets (AKA "porta potties").

Septic tank means a subsurface impervious tank designed to temporarily retain sewage or similar waterborne wastes together by means of:

(1)

A sewer line constructed with solid pipe, with the joints sealed, connecting the impervious tank with a plumbing stub out; and

(2)

A subsurface system of trenches, piping and other materials constructed to drain the clarified discharge from the tank and distribute it underground to be absorbed or filtered.

Septic tank waste means any sewage from holding tanks such as vessels, chemical toilets, campers, trailers, and septic tanks.

Severe property damage means substantial physical damage to property, damage to an industrial user's treatment facilities which causes them to become inoperable, or substantial and permanent loss of natural resources which can reasonably be expected to occur in the absence of a bypass. Severe property damage does not mean economic loss caused by delays in production.

Sewage means the spent water of a community. The equivalent term is "wastewater."

Sewer means a pipe or conduit that carries sewage.

Shall is mandatory; may is permissive.

Significant industrial user means, except as provided in paragraphs (3) and (4) below, the following:

(1)

Categorical industrial users; and

(2)

Any other industrial user that discharges an average of 25,000 gallons per day or more of process wastewater to the WWF (excluding domestic wastewater, noncontact cooling and boiler blowdown wastewater); contributes a process waste stream which makes up five percent or more of the average dry weather hydraulic or organic capacity of the treatment plant; or is designated as such by the control authority on the basis that the industrial user has a reasonable potential for adversely affecting the WWF's operation or for violating any pretreatment standard or requirement in accordance with paragraph 62-625.500(2)(e), F.A.C.

(3)

The control authority (except where the department is acting as the control authority) 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 through 471, is a non-significant categorical industrial user.

(4)

Upon a finding that an industrial user meeting the criteria in paragraph (2) above has no reasonable potential for adversely affecting the WWF's operation or for violating any pretreatment standard or requirement, the control authority may at any time, on its own initiative or in response to a petition received from an industrial user, and in accordance with paragraph 62-625.500(2)(e), F.A.C., determine that such industrial user is not a significant industrial user.

Slug discharge means any discharge of a non-routine, episodic nature, which has a reasonable potential to cause interference, pass through or in any other way violate the WWF's regulations, local limits or permit conditions.

Standard industrial classification (SIC) means a classification pursuant to the Standard Industrial Classification Manual issued by the Executive Office of the President, Office of Management and Budget, 1972.

State means State of Florida.

Storm drain sometimes termed storm sewer, it shall mean a drain or sewer for conveying surface water, groundwater, subsurface water, or unpolluted water from any source.

Stormwater means any flow occurring during or following any form of natural precipitation and resulting therefrom.

Suspended solids (SS) means total suspended solid matter that either floats on the surface of or is in suspension in water, sewage or other liquids, and that is removable by laboratory filtering as prescribed in "Standard Methods for the Examination of Water and Wastewater" and referred to as non-filterable residue.

Tangible means permanent property of a physical nature such as lands, buildings, mineral deposits, wells, reservoirs, plant equipment of all kinds, utensils, furnishings, merchandise intended for immediate use and permanent improvements.

Toxic pollutant means any pollutant or combination of pollutants listed as toxic in regulations promulgated by the Administrator of the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) under the provision of CWA 307(1) or other Acts.

Unpolluted water means water of quality equal to or better than the effluent criteria in effect or water that would not cause violation of receiving water quality standards and would not be benefitted by discharge to the sewers and wastewater treatment facilities provided.

Useful life means the estimated period during which a wastewater treatment works will be operated.

User charge means that portion of the total water and sewage readiness to serve charge which is levied in a proportional and adequate manner for the cost of operation, maintenance and replacement of the water and sewage systems.

User (customer) means any person or firm who contributes causes or permits the contribution of sewage into board's POTW.

Wastewater (sewage) means the spent water of a community. From the standpoint of source, it may be a combination of the liquid and water carried sewage from residences, commercial buildings, industrial facilities and institutions together with any groundwater, surface water and stormwater that may be present.

Wastewater treatment system means the devices and systems for the storage, treatment, recycling and reclamation of municipal sewage, domestic sewage or liquid industrial sewage. These include intercepting sewers, outfall sewers, sewage collection systems, pumps, power and other equipment and their appurtenances; extensions improvement, remodeling, additions and alterations thereof; elements essential to provide a reliable recycled supply such as standby treatment units and clear well facilities; and any works, including site acquisition of the land that will be an integral part of the treatment process or is used for ultimate disposal of residues resulting from such treatment (including land for composting sludge, temporary storage of such compost and land used for the storage of treated sewage in land treatment systems before land application); or any other method or system for preventing, abating, reducing, storing, treating, separating or disposing of municipal sewage or industrial sewage, including sewage in combined stormwater and sewer systems.

Water meter means a water volume measuring and recording device, furnished and/or installed by the board or a user, and approved by the board.

Waters of the state means all streams, lakes, ponds, marshes, watercourses, waterways, wells, springs, reservoirs, aquifers, irrigation systems, drainage systems and all other bodies or accumulations of water, surface or underground, natural or artificial, public or private, which are contained within, flow through, or border upon the State of Florida or any portion.

Watercourse means shall mean a natural or artificial channel for the passage of water either continuously or intermittently.

WWF means wastewater facility or a POTW

( Ord. No. 16-16 , § 1, 9-6-16)