For purposes of this chapter, the following words and phrases shall have the following meanings ascribed to them.
(a) "Biochemical oxygen demand (BOD)" means the quantity of oxygen utilized in the biochemical oxidation of organic matter under standard laboratory procedure in five days at 20 degrees C, expressed in milligrams per liter.
(b) "Combined sewer" means a sewer intended to receive both wastewater and storm or surface water.
(c) "Debt service charge" means the amount of the principal and interest due on money borrowed for the construction of new or improvements to existing wastewater collection and treatment works and for replacement of such facilities. Debt service is usually expressed in annual amounts.
(d) "Industrial waste" means the liquid wastes resulting from industrial processes, trade, or business as distinct from domestic or sanitary strength wastewater.
(e) "Normal domestic wastes" means the wastewater from residences, commercial establishments, institutions and the like as distinct from industrial wastewater.
(Ord. 1991-15. Passed 12-17-91.)
(f) "National Pollutant Discharge Elimination System (NPDES) permit'' means a legally binding document issued by the Ohio EPA to the owner/operator of a wastewater treatment plant. The document contains a schedule of compliance requiring the permit holder to achieve specific effluent limitations by a specified date. It also specifies monitoring and reporting requirements. The final effluent limits established by Ohio EPA for the discharge of treated wastewater by the Municipality to South Wolf Creek are currently as follow:
Effluent Limitations | ||
Parameter | 30-Day | 7-Day |
CBOD5, mg/ 1 | 10 | 15 |
Suspended Solids, mg/l | 12 | 18 |
NH3-N - summer, mg/l | 1.5 | 2.3 |
winter, mg/l | 2.5 | 3.8 |
Dissolved Oxygen, mg/l | 5.0 minimum | |
E. Coli - #/100 ml | 126 | 284 |
Oil and Grease, mg/l | 10.0 maximum | |
pH, S.U. | 6.5 min. to | 9.0 max. |
Copper, Total Recoverable, ug/l | 19 | |
Cyanide, Free (Low Level), ug/l | 12 | |
(Ord. 2017-16. Passed 12-19-17.)
(g) "Operation and maintenance" means those activities and expenditures required to assure that a wastewater collection and treatment system operates safely, effectively and efficiently in meeting the effluent limitations and other conditions of its NPDES permit.
(h) "Replacement" means reconstruction or reinstallation, in its entirety, of a component of a wastewater collection and treatment system to assure that the system continues to function safely, efficiently, and effectively.
(i) "Sanitary sewer"means a sewer that collects and conveys liquid and water-carried wastes from residences, commercial establishments, industrial plants, and institutions together with minor quantities of ground, storm, and surface waters that are not intentionally introduced to the sewer.
(j) "Sewer service charge" means that proportionate amount of the entire user charge system allocated to defray debt service charges, operation and maintenance costs, and replacement costs of the sanitary sewage collection and conveyance system.
(k) "Storm sewer" means a drain or sewer for conveying water, ground water, subsurface water, or unpolluted water from any other source.
(l) "Suspended solid" means the total suspended matter that either floats on the surface of, or is in suspension in, water, wastewater, or other liquids, that is removable by laboratory filtering as prescribed in "Standard Methods for the Examination of Water and Wastewater" and referred to as nonfilterable residue.
(m) "User charges" means the total amount of each customer's quarterly invoice for wastewater collection, conveyance, and treatment services. Included in such “user charges” are debt service, operation and maintenance, and replacement costs.
(n) "User classes":
(1) “Residential” means property, the use of which is primarily for domestic purposes as opposed to commercial, industrial, institutional, or governmental purposes.
(2) “Commercial” means property, the use of which is primarily for retail trade, office, or general/business purposes including but not necessarily limited to eating and drinking establishments, gasoline/automobile service and repair stations, hardware stores, grocery stores, storage/warehouse facilities and the like.
(3) “Industrial” means property, the use of which is primarily for the production of goods that will be directly resold through a retail or wholesale outlet or otherwise used in the fabrication of a finished product.
(4) “Institutional” means property, the use of which is primarily for religious purposes, hospitals, museums, senior citizens centers, private schools and the like that serve a public or quasi-public purpose but that are not directly used for governmental purposes.
(5) “Governmental” means property, the use of which serves a direct public purpose. Included among such uses are schools, courthouses, municipal buildings, firehouses, police stations, municipal maintenance facilities and the like that are directly related to officially constituted units of federal, state, or local government. (Ord. 1991-15. Passed 12-17-91.)