For the purpose of this chapter, the following definitions shall apply unless the context clearly indicates or requires a different meaning.
"BOARD." The Board of Public Works and Safety and the Board of Sanitation.
"BUILDING DRAIN." That part of the lowest horizontal piping of a drainage system which received the discharge from soil, waste and other drainage pipes inside the walls of the building and conveys it to the wails of the building sewer, beginning five feet (one and one-half meters: outside the inner face of the building wall).
“CITIZENS ENERGY GROUP." Private company who treats our wastewater generated by customers of Beech Grove Sewage Works.
"CITY SEWER." A sewer owned and operated or operated and controlled by the city.
"COMBINED SEWER." A sewer intended to serve as a sanitary sewer and a storm sewer or as an industrial sewer and a storm sewer. A "COMBINED SEWER" may receive surface water and runoff, and sanitary and residential wastewaters from residences, commercial building, industrial plants, and institutions.
"DIRECTOR." The Director of the Department of Public Works.
"FLOW METER." Device that registers the amount of flow from a sanitary sewer line.
"GARBAGE." Solid wastes from the domestic and commercial preparation, cooking and dispensing of food, and from the handling, storage and sale of produce.
"INDUSTRIAL WASTE." The liquid waste from industrial manufacturing processes, trade, or business, as distinct from domestic sewage.
"INFILTRATION." Water other than wastewater that enters a sewage system (including sewer service connections); from the ground through means as defective pipes, pipe joints, connections, or manholes, "INFILTRATION" does not include and is distinguished from "inflow".
"INFILTRATION/INFLOW." The total quantity of water from both infiltration and inflow without distinguishing the source.
"INFLOW." The water discharged into a sewer system, including service connections, from such sources as but not limited to roof leaders, cellar, yard and area drains; cooling water discharges; drains from springs and swampy area, manhole covers; cross connections from storm waters combined sewers; catch basins; storm waters; surface runoff; street wash waters; or drainage. "INFLOW" does not include, and is distinguished from "infiltration".
"INTERCEPTOR SEWER." A sewer whose primary purpose is to transport wastewater from collector sewers to a treatment facility.
"LATERAL LINE." The extension from the building drains to the public sewer or other place of disposal.
"OPERATION AND MAINTENANCE COST." Those cost necessary to perform the process of operating and maintaining the service collection system, capital equipment, tools and machines, vehicles and by billing and collections of user charges, replacement management and supervision of the total Sanitation Department.
"PUBLIC SEWER." A sewer in which all owners of abutting properties have equal rights, and is controlled by public authority.
"REPLACEMENT COST." Expenditures for obtaining and installing equipment, accessories, or appurtenances which are necessary during the service life of the sewage collection system to maintain the capacity and performance for which the sewage collection systems were designed and constructed. The term operation and maintenance includes replacement.
"RESIDENTIAL USER." Persons living in a single family dwelling or double family dwelling.
"SANITARY SEWER." A sewer intended to carry only sanitary or sanitary and industrial wastes from residences, commercial buildings, industrial plants and institutions, and to which storm, surface and ground waters are not intentionally admitted.
"SEWAGE COLLECTION SYSTEM." Each and all of the common lateral sewers within a treatment system which are primarily installed to receive wastewater directly from facilities which convey wastewater from individual structures or from private property, and which include service connection "Y" fitting designed for facilities which convey wastewater from individual structures or from private property to the public lateral sewer, or its equivalent, are specifically excluded from pumping units and pressurized lines for individual structures or groups of structures, when those units are cost effective and are owned and maintained by the city.
"SLUG." Any discharge of water, sewage or industrial waste which in concentration of any given constituent or in quantity of flow exceeds for any period of duration longer than 15 minutes, more than five times the average 24 hour concentration or flow during normal operation.
"STORM DRAIN" or "STORM SEWER." A sewer which carries storm and surface water and drainage, but excludes sewage and industrial wastes, other than unpolluted cooling water.
"WASTEWATER." A combination of water-carried wastes from residences, business buildings, institutions, and industrial establishments, together with such ground surface and stormwaters as may be present.
"WASTEWATER TREATMENT." Any arrangement of devices and structures used in treating sewage.
('67 Code, § 50.01) (Ord. 2-1954, passed 4-1-54; Am. Ord. 1-l979, passed 4-2-79; Am. Ord. 13-1979, passed 12-17-79; Am. Ord. 4A-2004, passed 8-17-04; Am. Ord. 1, 2013, passed 2-4-13; Am. Ord. 3, 2017, passed 8-7-17)