Unless otherwise defined herein, terms shall be as adopted in the latest edition of Standard Methods for the Examination of Water and Waste Water (hereinafter to be called simply "Standard Methods"), published by the American Public Health Association, The American Water Works Association and the Water Pollution Control Federation. Waste constituents and characteristics shall be measured by Standard Methods unless expressly stated or as otherwise required by Federal or State regulatory agencies.
(a) "Beneficial uses" means uses of the waters of the State of Ohio that may be protected against quality degradation including, but not necessarily limited to, domestic, municipal, agricultural and industrial supply, power generation, recreation, aesthetic enjoyment, navigation, the preservation and enhancement of fish, wildlife and other aquatic resources or reserves, and other uses, both tangible or intangible or as specified by Federal or State law.
(b) "Biochemical oxygen demand" ("BOD") shall mean the quantity of oxygen utilized in the biochemical oxidation of organic matter under standard laboratory procedure in five days at twenty degrees Centigrade, expressed in milligrams per liter. (ref. Standard Methods)
(c) "City” means the City of Bedford, Ohio, acting under the authority of Chapter 611.7 of the Ohio Revised Code and other appropriate State and Federal permits.
(d) "Building drain" shall mean that part of the lowest horizontal piping of a 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.
(e) "Building sewer" means a sewer conveying waste water from a building beginning ten feet outside the outer face of the building wall to a communitysewer.
(f) "Chemical oxygen demand" ("COD") shall mean the quantity of oxygen utilized in the chemical oxidation of organic matter under standard laboratory procedures expressed in milligrams per liter. (ref. Standard Method)
(g) "Combined sewer" shall mean a sewer intended to receive both waste water and storm or surface water.
(h) "Community sewer" means a sewer owned and operated by the City or other public agency tributary to a treatment facility operated by the City.
(i) "Compatible pollutant" shall mean BOD, suspended solids, pH and fecal coliform bacterial, plus additional pollutants identified in the NPDES permit, as defined herein, if the publicly owned treatment works was designed to treat such pollutants, and in fact does remove such pollutants to a substantial degree.
Examples of such additional pollutants may include but not be limited to:
(1) COD;
(2) Total organic carbon;
(3) Phosphorus and phosphorus compounds;
(j) "Contamination" means an impairment of the quality of the waters of the State by waste to a degree which creates a hazard to the public health through poison ing or through the spread of disease. Contamination shall also include any equivalent effect resulting from the disposal of waste water, whether or not waters of the State are affected.
(k) "Critical user" means a user who is required to obtain a permit, as defined in Section 921.02(a).
(l) "Engineer" shall mean the City's Engineer or his authorized representative as duly appointed and employed by the City, or in such cases as the City Manager may designate the Superintendent of Waste Water Treatment or his designated employee or agent.
(m) "Federal Act" refers to PL92-500 of the Federal Water Pollution Control Act Amendments of 1977.
(n) "Floatable oil" means oil, fat or grease in a physical state such that it will separate by gravity from waste water by treatment in an approved pretreatment facility.
(o) "Garbage" shall mean the animal and vegetable waste resulting from the handling, preparation, cooking and serving of food.
(p) "Holding tank waste" means any waste from holding tanks such as vessels, chemical toilets, campers, trailers, septic tanks and vacuum pump tank trucks.
(q) "Incompatible pollutant" means any pollutant which is not a compatible pollutant as defined in this section. The pretreatment standard for incompatible pollutants introduced into a publicly owned treatment works by a major contributing industry not subject to Section 307(c) of the Federal Act shall be, for sources within the corresponding industrial or commercial category, that established by a promulgated effluent limitations guideline defining best practicable control technology currently available pursuant to Sections 301(b) and 304(b) of the Federal Act, provided that if the publicly owned treatment works which receives the pollutants is committed, in its NPDES permit, as defined herein, to remove a specified percentage of any incompatible pollutant, the pretreatment standard applicable to users of such treatment works shall be correspondingly reduced for that pollutant; and provided further that even when the effluent limitation guideline for each industry category is promulgated, a separate provision will be proposed concerning the application of such guideline to pretreatment.
(r) "Industrial wastes" shall mean the waste water from industrial processes, trade or business as distinct from domestic or sanitary wastes.
(s) "Major contributing industry" shall mean an industrial user of the publicly owned treatment works that:
(1) Has a flow of fifty thousand gallons (189,250 liters) or more per average work day:
(2) Has a flow greater than ten percent (10%) of the flow carried by the City sanitary sewerage receiving the waste;
(3) Has in its waste, a toxic pollutant in toxic amounts as defined in standards issued under Section 307(a) of the Federal Act; or
(4) Is found by the permit issuance authority in connection with the issuance of an NPDES permit, as defined herein, to the publicly owned treatment works receiving the waste to have a significant impact, either singly or in combination with other contributing industries, on that treatment works or upon the quality of effluent from that treatment works.
(t) "Mass emission rate'' means the weight of material discharged to the sewer system during a given time interval. Unless otherwise specified, the mass emission rate shall mean pounds (kg) per day of a particular constituent or combination of constituents.
(u) "May" is permissive; "Shall" is mandatory.
(v) "Natural outlet" shall mean any outlet, including storm sewers and combined sewer overflows, into a watercourse, pond, ditch, lake or other body of surface or ground water.
(w) "NPDES permit" shall mean the National Pollutant Discharge Elimination System permit.
(x) "Nuisance" means anything which is injurious to health, is indecent or offensive to the senses, is an obstruction to the free use of property so as to interfere with the comfort or enjoyment of life or property or which affects at the same time an entire community or neighborhood or any considerable number of persons, although the extent of the annoyance of damage inflicted upon individuals may be unequal.
(y) "Person" means any individual, partnership, firm, association, corporation or public agency including the State of Ohio and the United States of America.
(z) “pH" shall mean the reciprocal of the logarithm of the hydrogen ion concentration. The concentration is the weight of hydrogen ion in grams, per liter of solution. Neutral water, for example, has a pH value of seven and a hydrogen ion concentration of 10-7. (ref. Standard Methods)
(aa) "Pollution" means an alteration of the quality of the waters of the State by waste to a degree which unreasonably affects such waters for beneficial uses. Pollution may include contamination.
(bb) "Properly shredded garbage" shall mean 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 (1.27 centimeters) in any dimension.
(cc) "Premises" means a parcel of real estate including any improvements thereon which is determined by the City, pursuant to State and Federal guidelines, to be a single user for purposes of receiving, using and paying for service.
(dd) "Pretreatment" shall mean the treatment of waste waters from source before introduction into publicly owned sanitary sewerage systems.
(ee) "Sanitary sewer" shall mean a newer that carries liquid and water carried wastes from residences, commercial buildings, industrial plants and institutions together with minor quantities of ground, storm and surface waters that are not admitted intentionally.
(ff) "Sanitary sewerage system" shall mean all community sewers, pumping stations and waste water generated. The use of the sanitary sewerage system shall pertain to the systems operated by the City or by other authorized agencies.
(gg) "Slug" shall mean any discharge of water or waste water which in concentration of any given constituent or in quantity of flow exceeds for any period of duration longer than fifteen minutes more than five times the average twenty-four hour concentration or flows during normal operation and shall adversely affect the collection system and/or performance of the waste water treatment works.
(hh) "Storm drain" (sometimes termed "storm sewer") shall mean a drain or sewer for conveying water, ground water, subsurface water or unpolluted water from any source.
(ii) "Superintendent" shall mean the superintendent of waste water facilities and/or of waste water treatment works and/or of water pollution control of the City or his authorized deputy, agent or representative.
(jj) "Suspended solids" ("SS") shall mean total suspended matter that either floats on the surface of, or is in suspension in, water, waste water or other liquids, and that is removable by laboratory filtering and referred to as nonfilterable residue. (ref. Standard Methods)
(kk) "Toxic pollutants" shall include but not necessarily be limited to aldrin, dieldrin, benzidine, cadmium, cyanide, DDT, endrin, mercury, polychlorinated biphenyls (PCBs) and toxaphene. Pollutants included as "toxic" shall be those promulgated as such by the United States Environmental Protection Agency.
(ll) "Unpolluted water" means water to which no constituents has been added, either intentionally or accidentally, which would render such water unacceptable to the agency having jurisdiction hereof for disposal to storm or natural drainage or directly to surface waters.
(mm) "User" means any person that discharges, causes or permits the discharge of waste water into a community sewer.
(nn) "User classification" means a classification of user based on the 1972 edition of the Standard Industrial Classification (SIC) Manual prepared by the Executive Office of Management and Budget.
(oo) "Waste" includes sewage and any and all other waste substances, liquid, solid, gaseous or radioactive associated with human habitation or of human or animal origin or from any producing, manufacturing or processing operation of whatever nature, including such waste placed within containers of whatever nature prior to and for purpose of disposal.
(pp) "Waste water constituents and characteristics" means the individual chemical, physical, bacteriological and radiological parameters, including volume and flow rate and such other parameters that serve to define, classify or measure the contents, quality, quantity and strength of waste water.
(qq) "Waters of the State" means any water, surface or underground, within the boundaries of the State.
(Ord. 5641-86. Passed 5-19-86.)