§ 11-24. Definitions.

In construing the provisions of this article, where the context will permit and no definition is provided herein, the definitions provided in F.S. ch. 403, and in rules and regulations promulgated thereunder shall apply. The following words and phrases when used in this article shall have the meaning ascribed to them in this section:

Adverse environmental impact means any change in the physical or biological conditions of the natural environment within or adjacent to the area that results in a substantial detrimental effect upon flora, fauna, air, water, minerals or other natural characteristic of the area.

Environment means the complex of climatic, edaphic and biotic factors that act upon an organism or an ecological community and ultimately determine its form and survival and which will be affected by the proposed work.

Facility means anything that is built or purchased to make an action or operation easier or to serve a special purpose.

Hazardous materials means any waste product, substance, or combination or breakdown product thereof which, because of its biological or chemical characteristics will be harmful or potentially harmful to human, plant or animal life or property or the conduct of business.

Hazardous wastes refers to the definition of that term as utilized in F.A.C. ch. 62-730.

Heated-water discharges means the effluent from commercial or industrial activities or processes in which water is used for the purpose of transporting waste heat.

Nuisance means the use of any property, facilities, equipment, processes, products or compounds, or the commission of any acts or any work that causes or materially contributes to:

(1)

The discharge into any of the waters of the City of any organic or inorganic matter or deleterious substance or chemical compounds, or any effluent containing the foregoing, in such quantities, proportions or accumulations as to be detectable at any point beyond the property limits of the premises occupied or used by the person responsible for the source thereof, so as to interfere with the health, repose or safety of any considerable number of persons or the public, or to cause severe annoyance or discomfort, or which tends to lessen normal food and water intake, or produces symptoms of nausea, or is offensive or objectionable to normal persons because of inherent chemical or physical properties, or causes injury or damage to real property, personal property, human, plant or animal life of any kind, or which interferes with normal conduct of business, or is detrimental or harmful to the health, comfort, living conditions, welfare and safety of the public.

(2)

Any violation of the provisions of this article which becomes detrimental to health or threatens danger to the safety of persons or property, or gives offense to, is injurious to, or endangers the public health and welfare, or prevents the reasonable and comfortable use and enjoyment of property.

On-site means within the boundaries of a facility location, property or site including those sites spatially separated by public or private rights-of-way.

Point of discharge for a heated-water discharge means either that point at which the effluent physically leaves its carrying conduit (open or closed) and discharges into the waters of the City or a specific point designated by the State department of environmental protection for that particular thermal discharge.

Pollution means the presence of any foreign substance (organic, inorganic, radiological, biological or thermal) in water which tends to degrade its quality so as to constitute a hazard or impair the usefulness of the water.

Sanitary nuisance means the commission of any action or the keeping, maintaining, propagation, existence or permission of anything, by a person, by which the health or life of an individual or the individuals, may be threatened or impaired or by which or through which, directly or indirectly, disease may be caused.

Secondary containment system means an impervious layer of materials which is installed so that any volume of hazardous materials which may be discharged from an underground or aboveground storage facility will be prevented from contacting the environment outside such impervious layer for the period of time necessary to detect and recover all the discharged hazardous materials. Materials or devices used to provide a secondary containment system may include concrete, impervious liners, slurry walls or other devices or materials approved by the POD.

Seepage means the introduction of water into a subsurface excavation from which the water enters the groundwater.

Solid waste means garbage, rubbish, refuse or other discarded material, including solids or contained gaseous material resulting from domestic, industrial, commercial, mining, agricultural or governmental operations.

Standard methods means the Standard Methods for the Examination of Water and Waste Water, according to the most recent edition, as published jointly by APHA, AWWA, and WPCF. Technical terms used in this article are those defined in the Glossary—Waste and Sewage Control Engineering, published jointly by APHA, ASCE, AWWA, and WPCF, latest edition, and the Condensed Chemical Dictionary, published by Reinhold, latest edition.

Storm sewer means any conduit which is designed to carry stormwater runoff.

Waste discharge means any outfall, ditch, pipe, soakage pit, drainage well, drainfield, or any other method or device by which treated or untreated sewage, industrial waste, or other wastes can enter the surface waters, tidal salt waters or groundwaters, so as to cause water pollution as herein defined.

Water dependent use means a use which cannot exist or occur without association with marine, freshwater or estuarine water masses.

Water pollution means the introduction in any surface or underground water, or tidal salt water, of any organic or inorganic matter or deleterious substance in such quantities, proportions or accumulations which are injurious to human, plant, animal, fish and other aquatic life, or property, or which unreasonably interfere with the comfortable enjoyment of life or property, or the conduct of business.

Work means any project, activity, or any artificial or manmade alteration of the environment, including, but not limited to, the construction or maintenance of roads, landclearing, trimming or cutting of a mangrove trees, dredging, filling, construction or placement of structures, floating structures, facilities or dwellings, and excavations.

(Code 1973, § 14-2; Code 1992, § 11-27)