All appropriate and applicable definitions as provided for in chapter 10-1
of this title are included in addition to the following terms and meanings. As used in this chapter, the following words and terms shall have the meanings ascribed to them in this section:
EDU: | Equivalent dwelling unit. EDU will be the minimum unit assignment to any customer in any class. One (1) EDU is defined as 4,500 gallons of water use. |
LATERAL SEWER LINE: | The portion of a sewer connecting a building sewer to the sewer main. |
PRIVY: | An outdoor toilet located in a small shed outside a house or other building; an outhouse. |
POTW: | Publicly Owned Treatment Works. |
SEWAGE: | A combination of water carried waste from residences, business buildings, institutions and industrial establishments which contains polluted matter subject to pre-treatment or treatment. |
SEWAGE TREATMENT PLANT: | Any arrangement of ponds, devices, and structures used for treating sewage. |
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 fifteen (15) minutes, more than five (5) times the average twenty-four (24) hour concentration or flows during normal operation. |
STORM SEWER OR STORM DRAIN: | A sewer which carries storm and surface or ground waters and drainage but excludes sewage and polluted wastes. (Ord. 602, - -2022; amd. Ord. 608, 6-6-2023) |