2011-11-30_PERMIT FILE - C1981008 (5)

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PART I Page No. 22 Permit No.: CO-0000213 DEFINITIONS OF TERMS I , "Chronic lethality" occurs when a statistically significant difference, at the 95% confidence level, occurs in the chronic test bev,vct;n the mortality of the test species in 100% effluent (the chronic IWC -- 1001/'0 and the control. 1 '*Composite" sample is a mininium, of four (4) grab samples collected at equally spaced two (2) hour intervals and proportioned according to flow. 3 "Continuous" measurement, is a measurement obtained from an automatic recording device which continually measures provides measurements. 4, "Daily Maximum limitation" means the limitation for this parameter shall be applied as an instantaneous maximum (or, for p11 or, DO, instantaneous minitnum) value. The instantaneous value is defined as the analytical result of any individual sample. DM,R5 shall include the maximum (and/or minirnum) of all instantaneous values within the calendar month. Any instantaneous value beyond the rioted daily maximum limitation for the indicated parameter -,Iiafl be considered a violation of this permit. 5 "Dissolved (D) metals fraction" is defined in the Basic 'Standards and Methodologies for Surface Water 1002-31, as that portion of a water and suspended sediment sample which passed through a 0,40 or 0.45 UM (micron) membrane filter. Determinations of "dissolved" constituents are made using the filtrate. This may include some very small (colloidal) suspended particles, which passed through the membrane filter as well as the amount of substance present in true chemical solution. & "Grab" sample, is a single "dip and take" sample so as to be representative of the parameter being monitored. 7. "in-situ" measurement is defined as a single reading, observation or measurement taken in the field at the point of discharge. 8. "Instantaneous" measurement is a single reading, observation, or measurement performed on site using existing monitoring 41 facilities. 9. "Potentially dissolved (PD) metals fraction" is defined in the Basic Standards and Methodologies for Surface Water 1002 -31, as that portion of a constituent measured from the filtrate of a water and suspended sediment sample that was first treated with nitric acid to a pl I of 2 or less and let stand for 8 to 96 hours prior to sample filtration using a 0.40 or 0.45-UM (micron) membrane filter. Note the "potentially dissolved" method cannot be used where nitric acid will interfere with the analytical procedure used for the constituent measured. 10. "Quarterly measurement frequency" means samples may be collected at any time during the calendar quarter if a continual discharge occurs. If the discharge is intermittent, then samples shall be collected during the period that discharge occurs. 11. "Recorder" requires the continuous operation of a chart andior totalizer (or drinking water rotor meters or pump hour meters where previously approved.) 12 "Seven (7) day average" means, with the exception of fecal coliform bacteria, the arithmetic mean of all samples collected in a seven (7) consecutive day period. l'or fecal coliform, bacteria, it is the geometric mean of all samples taken in a seven (7) consecutive day period, Such seven (7) day averages shall be calculated for all calendar weeks, which are defined as beginning on Sunday and ending on Saturday. If the calendar week overlaps two months (i.e. the Sunday is in one month and the Saturday in the following month), the seven (7) day average calculated for that calendar week shall be associated with the month that contains the Saturday. Samples may not be used for more than one (1) reporting period. (Not applicable to fecal coliform determinations.) 13 "Thirty (3 01 day average" means, except for fecal coliform bacteria, the arithmetic mean of all samples collected during a thirty ( ' 30) consecutive-day period. For fecal coliform bacteria, it is the geometric mean of all samples collected in a thirty (30)dayperiod. The permittee shall report the appropriate mean of all self-monitoring sample data collected during, the calendar month on the Discharge Monitoring Reports. Samples shall not be used for more than one (1) reporting period,