For the purpose of this subchapter, the following definitions shall apply unless the context indicates or requires a different meaning.
AUTHORITY. Village of Birch Run, Saginaw County, Michigan.
BIOCHEMICAL OXYGEN DEMAND (BOD). The quantity of decomposable organic matter by aerobic biochemical action under standard laboratory procedures for five days at 20°C and expressed in milligrams per liter (mg/l). The laboratory determinations shall be made in accordance with procedures set forth in Standard Methods.
NORMAL DOMESTIC STRENGTH. Wastewater discharged at concentration levels typical of normal human activity. These levels are:
Mg/l | For |
200 mg/l | BOD |
200 mg/l | Suspended solids |
OPERATION AND MAINTENANCE COSTS. The total annual cost of operating and maintaining the waste treatment facilities.
PERSON. Any individual, firm, company, municipality, association, society, corporation or group.
PREMISE. Each lot or parcel of land, building or household having a connection to the authority sewer system.
REPLACEMENT COSTS. Expenditures for obtaining and installing equipment, accessories and appurtenances which are necessary during the service life of the treatment works to maintain capacity and performance for which the works were designed and constructed and includes the replacement costs.
SEGREGATED DOMESTIC WASTES. Wastes from users which are generated from activities of a domestii nature and which are measurable and/or set apart from industrial discharges.
SHALL. Is mandatory; MAY is permissive.
STANDARD METHODS. The examination and analytical procedures set forth in the most recent edition of Standard Methods for the Examination of Water and Wastewater, published jointly by the American Public Health Association, American Water Works Association and Water Pollution Control Federation and as set forth in Federal Register Reprint 40 C.F.R. pt. 136, Guidelines Establishing Test Procedures for Analysis of Pollutants.
SURCHARGES. A charge levied on users of a treatment works for the cost of handling wastewaters which are discharged in concentrations greater than normal domestic strengths.
SUSPENDED SOLIDS. Solids which either float on the surface of or are in suspension in water, sewage or other liquid discharged to the treatment works which are removable by laboratory filtration and is expressed in milligrams per liter (mg/l). Quantitative determinations shall be made in accordance with procedures set forth in Standard Methods.
TREATMENT WORKS. An arrangement of devices and structures for collecting, conveying and treating wastewater.
USER CHARGES. A system of charges levied on users of a treatment works for the cost of operation and maintenance, including replacement of the works.
USERS. Each recipient of wastewater treatment services provided by the village as classified in § 53.23(B).
WASTEWATER. The spent water of the community. It may be a combination of liquid and water-carried wastes from residences, commercial buildings, industrial plants and institutions, together with any groundwater, surface water and storm water that may be present.
(1992 Code, § 84.001) (Ord. 4-82, passed - - 1982)