For the purpose of this article, the following definitions shall apply unless the context clearly indicates or requires a different meaning.
BACKWATER VALVE. Any check valve or other device to prevent the flow of sewage into a building.
BIOCHEMICAL OXYGEN DEMAND (BOD). The quantity of oxygen utilized in the biochemical oxidation of organic matter under standard laboratory procedure in five days at 20°C, expressed in parts per million by weight.
BUILDING DRAIN. That part of the lowest horizontal piping of a sanitary sewerage drainage system which receives the discharge from other drainage pipes inside the walls of the building and conveys it to the building sewer two feet outside the inner face of the building wall.
BUILDING SEWER. The extension from the building drain to the public sanitary sewer.
CITY ENGINEER. The City Engineer of the city or his authorized deputy, agent, or representative.
CLERK. The City Clerk of the city.
CONNECTOR. The person who connects any building sewer or house lateral.
DOMESTIC SEWAGE. A combination of liquid or water-carrying human or kitchen wastes conducted away from the residence, business, commercial, or institutional building.
GARBAGE. Solid wastes from the preparation, cooking, and dispensing of food and from the handling, storage, and sale of produce.
HOUSE LATERAL. That portion of the building sewer within a public street or public easement.
HOUSE SEWER. That portion of the building sewer within private property.
INDUSTRIAL SEWAGE (WASTE). A combination of liquid or water-carried waste resulting from a manufacturing process employed in industrial establishments, including the washing, cleaning, or drain water from such process. This includes wastes from commercial establishments which are not classified as domestic sewage.
INTERCEPTOR. A device designed and installed so as to separate and retain deleterious, hazardous, or undesirable matter from normal wastes and permit normal sewage or liquid wastes to discharge into the disposal terminal by gravity.
INSTALLER. Any person who installs main or trunk sewers within the city limits for connection to the city sewerage system.
MAIN SEWER. Any sewer constructed in a street or public easement to accommodate one or more building sewers or house laterals.
NATURAL OUTLET. Any outlet into a watercourse, pond, ditch, lake, or other body of surface or ground water.
OCCUPANT. Any person actually occupying any premises, whether as owner or tenant or under contract or otherwise.
OWNER. The person owning the fee title to any premises as shown by the official records of the County Recorder.
PERSON. Any individual, firm, partnership, company, corporation, association, or government agency.
pH. The logarithm of the reciprocal by weight of the hydrogen ions in grams per liter of solution.
PREMISES. Any lot, or any piece or parcel of land comprising two or more lots of record in one ownership, or any building or other structure, or any part of any building or structure, used or useful for human habitation or for gatherings or for carrying on a business or occupation or any commercial or industrial activity.
PROPERLY SHREDDED GARBAGE. The wastes from the preparation, cooking, and disposing of food which have been shredded to such a degree that all particles will be carried freely under the flow conditions normally prevailing in public sewers, and no particle greater than one-half inch in any dimension.
PUBLIC CORPORATION. The county, any political subdivision, city, county, district, the state, or the United States of America, or any department or agency thereof. The singular in each case shall include the plural.
PUBLIC SANITARY SEWER. A sanitary sewer directly controlled by public authority.
SANITARY SEWAGE. Any and all waste substances, liquids, or solids associated with human habitation, but excluding storm, surface, and ground waters and industrial wastes.
SANITARY SEWER. A sewer which carries sanitary sewage and to which storm, surface, and ground waters are not intentionally admitted.
SEPTIC TANK. A watertight receptacle which receives the discharge of a drainage system, or part thereof, designed and constructed so as to retain the solids, digest the organic matter through a period of detention, and allow the liquids to discharge into the soil outside of the tank through a system of open joint piping or a seepage pit.
SEWAGE. A combination of the water-carried wastes from residences, business buildings, institutions, and industrial establishments.
SEWAGE TREATMENT PLANT. Any arrangement of devices and structures used for the treatment of domestic and industrial sewage.
SEWERAGE SYSTEM. All facilities for collecting, pumping, treating, and disposing of sewage.
SEWER. A pipe or conduit for carrying sewage.
SEWER SERVICE. The services and facilities for the collection, treatment, and disposal of sewage furnished or available to premises by the sewerage system.
STREET. Any public highway, road, street, avenue, alley, way, easement, or right-of-way.
STORM SEWER or STORM DRAIN. A sewer which carries storm and surface waters and drainage but excludes sanitary sewage and polluted industrial wastes.
SUSPENDED SOLIDS. Solids which either float on the surface of, or are in suspension in, water, sewage, or other liquids and which are removable by laboratory filtering.
TRUNK SEWER. The sewer in the street constructed to accommodate more than one main sewer.
USER. Any owner or renter of any premises connected to a trunk sewer or main sewer for the purpose of disposing of any sewage from the premises.
WATERCOURSE. A channel in which a flow of water occurs, either continuously or intermittently.
('66 Code, § 6-4.101) (Ord. 409-C-S, passed 8-9-79)