Unless the context specifically indicates otherwise, the meanings of terms used in this chapter shall be as follows:
BIOCHEMICAL OXYGEN DEMAND (BOD): | The quantity of oxygen utilized in the biochemical oxidation of organic matter under standard laboratory procedure in five (5) days at twenty degrees centigrade (20°C), expressed in milligrams per liter. |
BUILDING DRAIN: | That part of the lowest horizontal piping of the drainage system which receives the discharge from soil, waste and other drainage pipes inside the walls of the building and conveys it to the building sewer, beginning five feet (5') (1.5 meters) outside the inner face of the building wall. |
BUILDING SEWER: | The extension from the building drain to the public sewer or other place of disposal, also called "house connection". |
CESSPOOL: | An underground reservoir for liquid waste (as household sewage). |
EASEMENT: | An acquired legal right for the specific use of land owned by others. |
FLOATABLE OIL: | Oil, fat or grease in physical state such that it will separate by gravity from wastewater by treatment in an approved pretreatment facility. A wastewater shall be considered free of floatable fat if it is properly pretreated and the wastewater does not interfere with the collection system. |
GARBAGE: | The animal and vegetable waste resulting from processes, trade or business, as distinct from domestic or sanitary wastes. |
HEAVY USERS: | Any user who discharges waste into the system requiring higher than normal biochemical oxygen demand, or greater than normal total suspended solids. |
INDUSTRIAL WASTES: | The wastewater from industrial processes, trade or business, as distinct from domestic or sanitary wastes. |
MAY: | Is permissive (see definition of Shall). |
NATURAL OUTLET: | Any outlet (including storm sewers) into a watercourse, pond, ditch, lake or other body of surface or groundwater. |
OWNER: | The owner of the real property to which the sewer system is connected, or to which the sewer system is required to be connected, which ownership is reflected on the records of the Salt Lake County recorder as of the date a charge or fee is assessed by the town. Any person who sells real property, subject to a charge or fee assessed under this chapter, by means of a contract or instrument which does not transfer legal title to the buyer but only purports to transfer equitable title to the buyer, shall be deemed the "owner" of the premises for purposes of this chapter. |
PERSON: | Any individual, firm, company, association, society, corporation or group. |
pH: | The logarithm of the reciprocal of the hydrogen ions concentration. The concentration is the weight of hydrogen ions, in grams, per liter of solution. Neutral water, for example, has a pH value of 7 and a hydrogen ion concentration of 107. |
PRIVY: | A small building having a bench with holes through which the user may defecate or urinate. |
PROPERLY SHREDDED GARBAGE: | The wastes from the preparation, cooking and dispensing of food that have been shredded to such a degree that all particles will be carried freely under the flow conditions normally prevailing in public sewers, with no particle greater than one-half inch (1/2") (1.27 centimeters) in any dimension. |
PUBLIC SEWER: | A common sewer controlled by a governmental agency, public utility or the town. |
RESIDENTIAL FLOWS: | The flow strengths and flow volume. |
SANITARY SEWER: | A sewer that carries liquid and water carried wastes from residences, commercial buildings, industrial plants, and institutions, together with minor quantities of groundwater, stormwater and surface waters that are not admitted intentionally. |
SEPTIC TANK: | A tank in which the solid matter of continuous flowing sewage is disintegrated by bacteria. |
SEWAGE: | The spent water of a community. The preferred term is "wastewater". |
SEWER: | A pipe or conduit that carries wastewater or drainage water. |
SEWER LATERAL: | Sewer piping intended to serve a single building or residence. |
SEWER MAINLINE: | Sewer piping intended to serve more than one building or residence. |
SHALL: | Is mandatory (see definition of May). |
SLUG: | Any discharge of water or wastewater which in concentration of any given constituent or in quantity of flow exceeds for any period of duration longer than fifteen (15) minutes more than five (5) times the average twenty four (24) hour concentration of flows during normal operation and shall adversely affect the collection system and/or performance of the wastewater treatment works. |
STORM DRAIN (Sometimes Termed "STORM SEWER"): | A drain or sewer for conveying water, groundwater, subsurface water or unpolluted water from any source. |
SUPERINTENDENT: | The person or agency charged with management of the system as designated by the town. |
SUSPENDED SOLIDS: | Total suspended matter that either floats on the surface of, or is in suspension in water, wastewater or other liquids, and that is removable by laboratory filtering as prescribed in "Standard Methods For The Examination Of Water And Wastewater" and referred to as nonfilterable residue. |
SYSTEM: | The sewer, wastewater or combined wastewater and stormwater or surface water facilities of the town. |
UNPOLLUTED WATER: | The water of quality equal to or better than the effluent criteria in effect or water that would not cause violation of receiving water quality standards and would not be benefitted by discharge to the sanitary sewers and wastewater treatment facilities provided. |
WASTEWATER: | The spent water of a community. From the standpoint of source, it may be a combination of the liquid and water carried wastes from residences, commercial buildings, industrial plants and institutions, together with any groundwater, surface water and stormwater that may be present. |
WASTEWATER FACILITIES: | The structures, equipment and processes required to collect and carry away wastewater and industrial wastes. |
WATERCOURSE: | A natural or artificial channel for the passage of water, either continuously or intermittently. (Ord. 1994-O-1, 1-13-1994; amd. 2010 Code; Ord. 2021-O-1, 3-10-2021) |