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85 - 2. DEFINITIONS
<br />For the purposes of this by-law, the following shall
<br />mean:
<br />AUTHORIZED ENFORCEMENT AGENCY: The
<br />Mashpee Department of Public Works (hereafter the
<br />DPW), its employees or agents designated to enforce
<br />this by-law.
<br />BEST MANAGEMENT PRACTICE (BMP): An
<br />activity, procedure, restraint, or structural improvement
<br />that helps to reduce the quantity or improve the quality
<br />of stormwater runoff.
<br />CLEAN WATER ACT: The Federal Water Pollution
<br />Control Act (33 U.S.C. § 1251 et seq.) as hereafter
<br />amended.
<br />DISCHARGE OF POLLUTANTS: The addition from
<br />any source of any pollutant or combination of
<br />pollutants into the municipal storm drain system or into
<br />the waters of the United States or Commonwealth from
<br />any source.
<br />GROUNDWATER: Water beneath the surface of the
<br />ground.
<br />ILLICIT CONNECTION: A surface or subsurface
<br />drain or conveyance, which allows an illicit discharge
<br />into the municipal storm drain system, including
<br />without limitation sewage, process wastewater, or wash
<br />water and any connections from indoor drains, sinks,
<br />or toilets, regardless of whether said connection was
<br />previously allowed, permitted, or approved before the
<br />effective date of this by-law [or ordinance]
<br />ILLICIT DISCHARGE: Direct or indirect discharge
<br />to the municipal storm drain system that is not
<br />composed entirely of stormwater, except as exempted
<br />in Section 7. The term does not include a discharge in
<br />compliance with an NPDES Storm Water Discharge
<br />Permit or a Surface Water Discharge Permit, or
<br />resulting from firefighting activities exempted pursuant
<br />to Section 7, subsection 4, of this by-law.
<br />IMPERVIOUS SURFACE: Any material or structure
<br />on or above the ground that prevents water infiltrating
<br />the underlying soil. Impervious surface includes
<br />without limitation roads, paved parking lots, sidewalks,
<br />and rooftops.
<br />MUNICIPAL SEPARATE STORM SEWER SYSTEM
<br />(MS4) or MUNICIPAL STORM DRAIN SYSTEM:
<br />The system of conveyances designed or used for
<br />collecting or conveying stormwater, including any road
<br />with a drainage system, street, gutter, curb, inlet, piped
<br />storm drain, pumping facility, retention or detention
<br />basin, natural or man-made or altered drainage channel,
<br />reservoir, and other drainage structure that together
<br />comprise the storm drainage system owned or operated
<br />by the Town of Mashpee.
<br />NATIONAL POLLUTANT DISCHARGE
<br />ELIMINATION SYSTEM (NPDES) STORM WATER
<br />DISCHARGE PERMIT: A permit issued by United
<br />States Environmental Protection Agency or jointly with
<br />the State that authorizes the discharge of pollutants to
<br />waters of the United States.
<br />NON-STORMWATER DISCHARGE: Discharge to
<br />the municipal storm drain system not composed
<br />entirely of stormwater.
<br />PERSON: An individual, partnership, association,
<br />firm, company, trust, corporation, agency, authority,
<br />department or political subdivision of the
<br />Commonwealth or the federal government, to the
<br />extent permitted by law, and any officer, employee, or
<br />agent of such person.
<br />POLLUTANT: Any element or property of sewage,
<br />agricultural, industrial or commercial waste, runoff,
<br />leachate, heated effluent, or other matter whether
<br />originating at a point or nonpoint source, that is or may
<br />be introduced into any sewage treatment works or
<br />waters of the Commonwealth. Pollutants shall include
<br />without limitation:
<br />1) Paints, varnishes, and solvents;
<br />2) Oil and other automotive fluids;
<br />3) Non -hazardous liquid and solid wastes and
<br />yard wastes;
<br />4) Refuse, rubbish, garbage, litter, or other
<br />discarded or abandoned objects, ordnances,
<br />accumulations and floatables;
<br />5) Pesticides, herbicides, and fertilizers;
<br />6) Hazardous materials and wastes; sewage, fecal
<br />coliform and pathogens;
<br />7) Dissolved and particulate metals;
<br />8) Animal wastes;
<br />9) Rock, sand, salt, soils;
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