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PERSON: An individual, partnership, association, firm, company, trust, corporation, agency, authority,
<br /> department or political subdivision of the Commonwealth or the federal government, to the extent
<br /> permitted by law, and any officer, employee, or agent of such person.
<br /> POLLUTANT: Any element or property of sewage, agricultural, industrial or commercial waste, runoff,
<br /> leachate, heated effluent, or other matter whether originating at a point or nonpoint source, that is or
<br /> may be introduced into any sewage treatment works or waters of the Commonwealth. Pollutants shall
<br /> include without limitation:
<br /> 1) Paints, varnishes, and solvents;
<br /> 2) Oil and other automotive fluids;
<br /> 3) Non-hazardous liquid and solid wastes and yard wastes;
<br /> 4) Refuse, rubbish, garbage, litter, or other discarded or abandoned objects, ordnances,
<br /> accumulations and floatables;
<br /> 5) Pesticides, herbicides, and fertilizers;
<br /> 6) Hazardous materials and wastes; sewage, fecal coliform and pathogens;
<br /> 7) Dissolved and particulate metals;
<br /> 8) Animal wastes;
<br /> 9) Rock, sand, salt, soils;
<br /> 10)Construction wastes and residues; and
<br /> 11) Noxious or offensive matter of any kind.
<br /> PROCESS WASTEWATER: Water which, during manufacturing or processing, comes into direct contact
<br /> with or results from the production or use of any material, intermediate product, finished product, or
<br /> waste product.
<br /> RECHARGE: The process by which groundwater is replenished by precipitation through the percolation
<br /> of runoff and surface water through the soil.
<br /> STORMWATER: Storm water runoff, snow melt runoff, and surface water runoff and drainage.
<br /> SURFACE WATER DISCHARGE PERMIT. A permit issued by the Department of Environmental Protection
<br /> (DEP) pursuant to 314 CMR 3.00 that authorizes the discharge of pollutants to waters of the
<br /> Commonwealth of Massachusetts.
<br /> TOXIC OR HAZARDOUS MATERIAL or WASTE: Any material, which because of its quantity,
<br /> concentration, chemical, corrosive, flammable, reactive, toxic, infectious or radioactive characteristics,
<br /> either separately or in combination with any substance or substances, constitutes a present or potential
<br /> threat to human health, safety, welfare, or to the environment. Toxic or hazardous materials include
<br /> any synthetic organic chemical, petroleum product, heavy metal, radioactive or infectious waste, acid
<br /> and alkali, and any substance defined as Toxic or Hazardous under G.L. Ch.21C and Ch.21E, and the
<br /> regulations at 310 CMR 30.000 and 310 CMR 40.0000.
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