(a) "Building drain" means 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 a building and conveys it to the building sewer beginning three feet outside the building wall.
(b) "Building sewer" means the extension from the building drain to the public sewer or other place of disposal.
(c) "City" means the City of Belpre, Ohio, acting through its duly authorized officials and employees.
(d) "Combined sewer" means a sewer intended to receive both wastewater and storm or surface water.
(e) "Domestic sewage" means sewage derived principally from dwellings, business buildings, institutions and the like, which originates within the building, including the waste from kitchens, water closets, lavatories, bathrooms, showers and laundries.
(f) "Foundation drains" means subsurface drains laid around the foundation of a building, either within or outside of the building foundation for the purpose of carrying ground or subsurface water to some point of disposal.
(g) "Garbage" means solid wastes from the domestic and commercial preparation, cooking and dispensing of food, and from the commercial handling, storage and sale of produce .
(h) "Industrial user" means any nongovernmental user of the publicly owned treatment works identified in the Standard Industrial Classification Manual of the U.S. Office of Management and Budget, as amended and supplemented, under the following divisions: Division A - Agriculture, Forestry, and Fishing; Division B - Mining; Division D - Manufacturing; Division E - Transportation, Communication, Electric, Gas, and Sanitary Service; Division I - Services. A user in the divisions listed may be excluded if it is determined that it will introduce primarily segregated domestic waste or wastes from sanitary conveniences.
(i) “Industrial waste” means the liquid and water-carried wastes resulting from the process employed in industrial, manufacturing, trade or business establishments, as distinct from domestic wastes.
(j) "May" is permissive; "shall" is mandatory.
(k) "NPDES Permit" means the National Pollution Discharge Elimination System permit issued pursuant to Section 402 of the Act (33 USC 1342).
(l) "National Categorical Pretreatment Standard" means any regulation containing pollutant discharge limits promulgated by the EPA in accordance with Section 307(b) and (c) of the Federal Water Pollution Control Act (33 USC 1347) which applies to a specific category of industrial users.
(m) "Natural outlet" means outlet, including storm sewers and combined sewer overflows, into a watercourse, pond, ditch, lake or other body of surface or groundwater.
(n) "Nonsanitary flow" means storm water originating from downspouts, storm and groundwater drains and foundation drains.
(o) "Person" means any individual, firm, company, association, society, corporation or group.
(p) "Public sewer" means any sewer owned by the City, including storm, sanitary or combined sewers.
(q) "Sanitary sewer" means a sewer which carries sanitary and industrial wastes, and to which storm, surface and groundwater are not intentionally admitted.
(r) "Sewage" means the combination of the liquid and water-carried wastes from residences, commercial buildings, industrial plants and institutions, including polluted cooling water.
(s) "Sewage system" means the structures, equipment and process required to collect, transport and treat domestic and industrial wastes and dispose of the effluent and accumulated residual solids and shall be synonymous with "wastewater treatment system".
(t) "Storm sewer" means a pipe or conduit designed for the purpose of carrying storm, surface, cooling and drainage water from the point of origin to some point of disposal, but which is not intended to carry domestic or industrial sewage.
(u) "Shall" is mandatory; "may" is permissive.
(v) "Slug load" means any pollutant, including oxygen demanding pollutants (BOD, etc.) released in a single extraordinary discharge episode of sufficient volume or strength to cause interference to the POTW.
(w) "User" means any person who discharges, causes or permits the discharge of wastewater into the wastewater treatment system.
(x) "Wastewater" means the liquid and water-carried waste from dwellings, commercial buildings, industrial facilities and institutions, together with any groundwater, surface water or storm water that may be present, whether treated or untreated, which is discharged or permitted to enter the wastewater treatment system.
(y) "Wastewater treatment system" means the structures, equipment and process required to collect, transport and treat domestic and industrial wastes and dispose of the effluent and accumulated residual solids and shall be synonymous with "sewage system".
(Ord. 9(82-83). Passed 5-24-82.)