Unless the context specifically indicates otherwise, the meanings of the following terms as used in this subchapter or as used in the rules and regulations adopted by the Board of Trustees to implement the provisions of this subchapter shall be as follows.
BIOCHEMICAL OXYGEN DEMAND (OR BOD) OF SEWAGE, SEWAGE EFFLUENT, POLLUTED WATERS OR INDUSTRIAL WASTES. The quantity of dissolved oxygen in milligrams per liter required during stabilization of the decomposable organic matter by aerobic biochemical action under standard laboratory procedures for five days at 20° Centigrade. The laboratory determinations shall be made in accordance with procedures set forth in Standard Methods (see § 51.30).
BUILDING (OR HOUSE) DRAIN. That part of the lowest horizontal piping of a building drainage system which receives the discharge from soil, waste and other drainage pipes inside the walls of the building and conveys it to a point approximately 3 feet outside the foundation wall of the building.
BUILDING (OR HOUSE) SEWER. The pipe which is connected to the building (or house) drain at a point approximately 3 feet outside the foundation wall of the building and which conveys the building's discharge from that point to the public sewer or other place of disposal.
CHEMICAL OXYGEN DEMAND OR (COD) OF SEWAGE, SEWAGE EFFLUENT, POLLUTED WATERS OR INDUSTRIAL WASTES. Is a measure of the oxygen equivalent of that portion of the organic matter in a sample that is susceptible to oxidation by a strong chemical oxidant. The laboratory determination shall be made in accordance with procedures set forth in Standard Methods.
COMBINED SEWER. A sewer which carries both storm, surface and ground-water runoff and sewage.
EFFLUENT. The water, together with any wastes that may be present, flowing out of a drain, sewer, receptacle or outlet.
GARBAGE. Any solid wastes from the preparation, cooking or dispensing of food and from the handling, storage or sale of produce.
GROUND GARBAGE. Garbage that is shredded to such a degree that all particles will be carried freely in suspension under the conditions normally prevailing in public sewers, with no particle being greater than 1/2 inch in dimension.
INDUSTRIAL WASTES. Any solid, liquid or gaseous substance or form of energy discharged, permitted to flow or escaping from an industrial, manufacturing, commercial or business process or from the development, recovery or processing of any natural resource carried on by any person as defined in § 51.30, and shall further mean any waste from an industrial user as defined in this chapter.
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, foundations drains, cooling water discharges, drains from springs and swampy areas, manhole covers, cross connections from storm sewers and combined sewers, catch basins, storm waters, surface run-off, street wash waters, or drainage. INFLOW does not include, and is distinguished from, infiltration.
INFLUENT. The water, together with any wastes that may be present, flowing into a drain, sewer, receptacle or outlet.
OUTLET. Any outlet, natural or constructed, which is the point of final discharge of sewage or of treatment plant effluent into any water course, pond, ditch, lake or other body of surface or ground water.
PERSON. Any and all persons, natural or artificial, including any individual, firm, company, municipal or private corporation, association, society, institution, enterprise, governmental agency or other entity.
pH. The logarithm (to the base 10) of the reciprocal of the hydrogen ion concentration of a solution expressed in gram-atoms per liter of solution.
PUBLIC SEWER. A sewer in which all owners of abutting property have equal rights and which is controlled by public authority.
RECEIVING STREAM. The watercourse, stream or body of water receiving the waters finally discharged from the sewage treatment plant.
RESIDENTIAL PROPERTY UNIT. A building under 1 roof designed, arranged and used primarily for dwelling purposes by a single family.
SANITARY SEWAGE. Sewage discharged from the sanitary conveniences of dwellings (including apartment houses and hotels), office buildings, factories or institutions and free from storm water, surface water and industrial wastes.
SANITARY SEWER. A sewer which carries sewage and to which storm, surface and ground waters and unpolluted industrial waste waters are not intentionally admitted.
SERVICE AREA. That area which presently or in the future contributes sewage to the wastewater treatment plant.
SEWAGE. The water-carried wastes from residences, business buildings, institutions and industrial establishments, singular or in any combination, together with such ground, surface and storm waters as may be present.
SEWAGE WORKS. All facilities for collecting, transporting, pumping, treatment and disposing of sewage and sludge, namely the sewerage system and wastewater treatment plant.
SEWER. A pipe or conduit for carrying sewage or other waste liquids.
SEWERAGE SYSTEM. The network of sewers and appurtenances used for collecting, transporting and pumping sewage to the wastewater treatment plant.
SEWER ENGINEER or WATER POLLUTION CONTROL ENGINEER. The duly authorized representative of the town. The individual designated may be the Town Engineer, Superintendent of the
Wastewater Treatment Plant, consulting civil or environmental engineer to the town, or some similar, knowledgeable and technically qualified person.
SHALL. Is mandatory and MAY is permissible.
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, the American Water Works Association and the Water Pollution Control Federation.
STORM SEWER. A sewer which carries storm, surface and ground water drainage but excludes sewage.
SUPERINTENDENT. The Superintendent of the Wastewater Treatment Plant of the town or his duly authorized representative.
SUSPENDED SOLIDS. Solids which either float on the surface of or are in suspension in water, sewage or other liquid and which are removable by laboratory filtration. Their concentration shall be expressed in milligrams per liter. Quantitative determinations shall be made in accordance with procedures set forth in Standard Methods.
TOWN. The Town of Brooklyn, Indiana, or any duly authorized officials acting in its behalf.
USER CLASSES. Each recipient of municipal wastewater treatment services shall be either in the industrial class or the non-industrial class (including domestic, commercial, institutional and governmental). The Industrial Class shall include any non-governmental user as determined by the Board of Trustees, identified in the Standard Industrial Classification Manual of 1972, 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, Communications, Electric, Gas and Sanitary Services; and Division I - Services. The non-industrial class
shall include all domestic and governmental users and those industrial, commercial and institutional users whose wastes are segregated domestic wastes or wastes from sanitary conveniences where regular domestic wastes are those wastes generated by normal domestic activity as determined by the Board of Trustees.
WASTEWATER TREATMENT PLANT. The arrangement of devices, structures and equipment used for treatment and disposing of sewage and sludge.
WATERCOURSE. A channel in which a flow of water occurs either continuously or intermittently.
(Ord. 11-3-75, passed 11-3-1975)