NATIONAL POLLUTION DISCHARGE ELIMINATION SYSTEM (NPDES)

TERMS & DEFINITIONS

BMP or Best Management Practice is a general term applicable to any means, practice or technique aimto significantly   reduce or eliminate storm water pollution.  See BMP's for specific information. 

SWP3 or Storm Water Pollution Prevention Plan is a plan written to describe on-site pollution control and prevention measures.  It should contain: a description of activity (industrial or construction) including pollution prevention team; site map; an inventory with description of potential pollution sources on-site; pollution controls to be used; controls inspection/maintenance procedures and; a certification page signed by the property owner/operator.  In construction activity the contractor must sign the certification page including the subcontractors.  Lee County requires to be signed off by the contractor and must be on-site for inspection.

Illicit Discharge means any discharge into the Lee County MS4 that is not composed entirely of storm water, except discharges made in accordance with a county issued development order consistent with the Lee County MS4 permit, an independent NPDES permit, as a result of fire fighting activities or otherwise specifically exempted under Lee County Ordinance 98-11, Article VII.

MS4 or Municipal Separate Storm Sewer System relates to the ditches, canals, detention areas, roadside inlets, swales and drains as well as manufactured storm sewer pipes and drains designated to convey storm water. Lee County contains natural creeks and flow channels that also convey storm water.

Construction Site means a site where the land surface has been disturbed to accommodate development or redevelopment.  The act of soil disturbance is considered industrial activity as defined in Lee County Ordinance 98-11, Article VII. 

Discharge means any material. solid or liquid that is conveyed, placed or otherwise enters the municipal separate storm sewer system.  It includes without qualification, the discharge of a pollutant.

Industrial Site means a site directly related to manufacturing, processing or raw materials storage.  This term includes, but is not limited to, industrial plant yards; immediate access roads and rail lines used or traveled by carriers of raw materials, manufactured products, waste material, or by-products used or created by the facility; material handling (including the storage, loading and unloading, transportation, or conveyance of any raw material, intermediate product, finished product, by-product or waste product) sites; refuse sites; sites used for the application or disposal of processed waste waters; sites used for the storage and maintenance of material handling equipment; sites used for residual treatment, storage, or disposal; shipping and receiving areas; manufacturing buildings storage areas for raw materials ( including tank farms), and intermediate and finished products; and areas where industrial activity has taken place in the past and significant materials remain and are exposed to stormwater.

Street Wash Water means any runoff from the washing of streets, culverts or other MS4 facilities operated and maintained  by Lee County.

Stormwater Discharge means the discharge from any conveyance used for collecting and conveying stormwater.

Storm Sewer , for definition please see Municipal Storm Sewer System (MS4). 

United States Enivronmental Protection Agency ( EPA)   is a federal independent agency instituted on December 2, 1970 to protect human health and to safeguard the natural environment - air, water, and land-upon which life depends.