{"id":203,"date":"2011-11-29T15:44:31","date_gmt":"2011-11-29T20:44:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.marshall.edu\/stormwater\/?page_id=203"},"modified":"2022-10-03T12:28:28","modified_gmt":"2022-10-03T16:28:28","slug":"report-illicit-discharges","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.marshall.edu\/stormwater\/education\/report-illicit-discharges\/","title":{"rendered":"Report Illicit Discharges"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Stormwater regulations define an \u201cillicit discharge\u201d as \u201c<strong>any discharge to a municipal separate storm sewer that is not composed entirely of stormwater<\/strong>\u201d (except discharges resulting from fire fighting activities and a few other categories).\u00a0 There are three types of discharge frequencies that help characterize a possible illicit discharge.\u00a0 The three types of frequencies are:<\/p>\n<p>1.\u00a0\u00a0<strong>Continuous<\/strong>-discharges occurring most or all of the time, which are easier for us to recognize but produce the largest amounts pollutant loads.<\/p>\n<p>2.\u00a0<strong>Intermittent<\/strong>-discharges occurring over a shorter period of time (i.e. a few hours per day).\u00a0 These discharges are harder to detect, but still represent a serious water quality issues.<\/p>\n<p>3.\u00a0\u00a0<strong>Transitory<\/strong>-discharges occurring rarely, usually due to an industrial\/accidental spill, ruptured tank, sewer break, or illegal dumping.\u00a0 These dischargers are extremely hard to detect but can have severe water quality impacts.<\/p>\n<p>Potential illicit discharges include but not limited to:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Sewage<\/li>\n<li>Washwater<\/li>\n<li>Liquid wastes<\/li>\n<li>Broken tap water lines<\/li>\n<li>Landscape irrigation<\/li>\n<li>Groundwater<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>If you are on campus and notice an illicit discharge or even suspect one please call the physical plant at 304-696-6680 or email\u00a0<a href=\"mailto:physplant@marshall.edu\">physplant@marshall.edu<\/a>.\u00a0 We cannot be a success without your help!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Stormwater regulations define an \u201cillicit discharge\u201d as \u201cany discharge to a municipal separate storm sewer that is not composed entirely of stormwater\u201d (except discharges resulting from fire fighting activities and a few other categories).\u00a0 There are three types of discharge frequencies that help characterize a possible illicit discharge.\u00a0 The three types of frequencies are: 1.\u00a0\u00a0Continuous-discharges<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":95,"featured_media":0,"parent":185,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-203","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.marshall.edu\/stormwater\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/203","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.marshall.edu\/stormwater\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.marshall.edu\/stormwater\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.marshall.edu\/stormwater\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/95"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.marshall.edu\/stormwater\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=203"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.marshall.edu\/stormwater\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/203\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":528,"href":"https:\/\/www.marshall.edu\/stormwater\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/203\/revisions\/528"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.marshall.edu\/stormwater\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/185"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.marshall.edu\/stormwater\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=203"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}