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*DRAFT#2* OCTOBER 21, 2019 Annual Town Meeting Warrant <br /> SECTION 2, DEFINITIONS <br /> For the purposes of this bylaw, the following shall mean: <br /> AUTHORIZED ENFORCEMENT AGENCY: The Mashpee Department of Public Works (hereafter the <br /> DPW), its employees or agents designated to enforce this by-law. <br /> BEST MANAGEMENT PRACTICE (BMP): An activity, procedure, restraint, or structural improvement <br /> that helps to reduce the quantity or improve the quality of stormwater runoff. <br /> CLEAN WATER ACT: The Federal water Pollution Control Act (33 U.S.C. § 1251 et seq.) as hereafter <br /> amended. <br /> DISCHARGE OF POLLUTANTS: The addition from any source` of any pollutant or combination of <br /> pollutants into the municipal storm drain system or into the....waters of the United States or <br /> Commonwealth from any source. <br /> GROUNDWATER: Water beneath the surface of the ground. <br /> ILLICIT CONNECTION: A surface or subsurface drain or conveyance, which allows an illicit discharge <br /> into the municipal storm drain system, including without limitation sewage, process wastewater, or <br /> wash water and an Y connections from indoor drains, sinks, or toilets, regardless of whether said <br /> connection was previously allowed, ermitted,:.or approved before the effective date of this by-law <br /> p Y p <br /> [or ordinance] <br /> ILLICIT DISCHARGE: Direct.or indirect discharge to the municipal storm drain system that is not <br /> composed entirely of stormwater,.::except as exempted in Section 7. The term does not include a <br /> compliance discharge in with an NPDES Storm Water Discharge Permit or a Surface Water Discharge <br /> . <br /> Permit or resultingfrom firefighting activities exempted pursuant to Section 7, subsection 4, of this <br /> g g <br /> by-law. <br /> IMPERVIOUS SURFACE: Any material or structure on or above the ground that prevents water <br /> Impervious surface includes without limitation roads, paved parkinginfiltratin the underlying soil. <br /> lots, sidewalks, and rooftops. <br /> MUNICIPAL SEPARATE STORM SEINER SYSTEM (MS4) or MUNICIPAL STORM DRAIN SYSTEM: The <br /> conveyances system of conve designed or used for collecting or conveying stormwater, including any road <br /> Y v g <br /> with a v <br /> drainage system, street, gutter, curb, inlet, piped storm drain, pumping facility, retention or <br /> detention basin natural or man-made or altered drainage channel, reservoir, and other drainage <br /> structure that together comprise the storm drainage system owned or operated by the Town of <br /> M ash pee. <br /> NATIONAL POLLUTANT DISCHARGE ELIMINATION SYSTEM (NPDES) STORM WATER DISCHARGE <br /> PERMIT: A permit issued by United States Environmental Protection Agency or jointly with the State <br /> that authorizes the discharge of pollutants to waters of the United States. <br /> NON-STORMWATER DISCHARGE: Discharge to the municipal storm drain system not composed <br /> entirely of stormwater. <br /> 3 <br />