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Permit No. VA0088641
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"Ecosystem restoration projects" means practices implemented to reestablish and maintain natural systems that
prevent, reduce, or remediate pollutant loadings. Examples of ecosystem restoration projects include stream
restoration, shoreline restoration, land-use conversion, and reforestation.
“High priority municipal facility” means facilities owned or operated by the permittee with drainage to any
permitted MS4 permit that actively engage in one or more of the following activities: (i) composting, (ii) equipment
storage, cleaning and maintenance, (iii) long-term bulk materials storage, (iv) pesticide, herbicide and fertilizer
storage, (v) recycling (vi) anti-icing and deicing storage, handling and transfer, (vii) solid waste handling and
transfer, and (viii) permittee owned or operated vehicle washing, maintenance, and salvage.
“Industrial land use” means land utilized in connection with manufacturing, processing, or raw materials storage
at facilities identified under 40 CFR Part 122.26(b)(14).
“Maintenance” means maintenance on the MS4 and associated structural stormwater controls including, but not
limited to, activities such as inspections of basins and ponds; repair and replacement of failed controls, mowing
grass filter strips; regular removal of litter and debris from dry ponds, forebays and water quality inlets; periodic
stabilization and revegetation of eroded areas; periodic removal and replacement of filter media from infiltration
trenches and filtration ponds; periodic removal of trash and sediment; deep tilling of infiltration basins to maintain
capacity; vacuuming or jet hosing of porous pavement or concrete grid pavements; and, removal of litter and
debris from wet weather conveyances.
“Permittee” means the City of Newport News.
“Physically interconnected” means that one MS4 is connected to a second MS4 in such a manner that it allows
for direct discharges to the second system.
“Pollutants of concern” or “POC” means pollutants specifically identified in a US Environmental Protection
Agency approved total maximum daily load (TMDL) report as causing a water quality impairment.
“Retrofit” means the modification of existing stormwater management facilities, as defined herein, including flood
control structures, through construction and/or enhancement in order to address water quality improvements.
Retrofit also means the installation or implementation of source reductions to provide water quality improvements
on previously developed land where no stormwater source reductions previously existed.Jump to an indexed page (43 of 43)