As used in this chapter, the following words and terms shall have the meanings ascribed to them in this section:
APPROVING AUTHORITY: The board of trustees or their duly authorized representative.
BOD (BIOCHEMICAL OXYGEN DEMAND): The quantity of oxygen by weight, expressed in mg/l, utilized in the biochemical oxidation of organic matter under standard laboratory conditions for five (5) days at a temperature of twenty degrees centigrade (20°C).
BUILDING SEWER: The extension from the building drain to the public sewer or other place of disposal (also called house lateral and house connection).
COD (CHEMICAL OXYGEN DEMAND): Measure of the oxygen consuming capacity of inorganic and organic matter present in the water or wastewater expressed in mg/l as the amount of oxygen consumed from a chemical oxidant in a specific test, but not differentiating between stable and unstable organic matter and thus not necessarily correlating with biochemical oxygen demand.
CONTROL MANHOLE: A manhole giving access to a building sewer at some point before the building sewer discharge mixes with other discharges in the public sewer.
CONTROL POINT: A point of access to a course of discharge before the discharge mixes with other discharges in the public sewer.
DIRECTOR: The public works director of the town of Caddo, Oklahoma, or his duly authorized deputy, agent, or representative.
GARBAGE: Animal and vegetable wastes and residue from the preparation, cooking, and dispensing of food, and from the handling, processing, storage and sale of food products and produce.
INDUSTRIAL WASTE: Waste resulting from any process of industry, manufacturing, trade, or business or from the development of any natural resource, or any mixture of the waste of water or normal wastewater, or distinct from normal wastewater.
INDUSTRIAL WASTE CHARGE: The charge made on those persons who discharge industrial wastes into the town's sewerage system.
MILLIGRAMS PER LITER (mg/l): The same as parts per million and is a weight to volume ratio; the milligrams per liter value multiplied by the factor 8.34 shall be equivalent to pounds per million gallons of water.
NATURAL OUTLET: Any outlet into a watercourse, ditch, lake, or other body of surface water or ground water.
NORMAL DOMESTIC WASTEWATER: Wastewater, excluding industrial wastewater, discharged by a person into sanitary sewers and in which the average concentration of total suspended solids is not more than two hundred milligrams per liter (200 mg/l) and BOD is not more than two hundred milligrams per liter (200 mg/l).
OVERLOAD: The imposition of organic or hydraulic loading on a treatment facility in excess of its engineered design capacity.
pH: The logarithm (base 10) of the reciprocal of the hydrogen ion concentration in moles per liter.
PERSON: Includes corporation, organization, government or governmental subdivision or agency, business trust, estate trust, partnership, association, and any other legal entity.
PUBLIC SEWER: Pipe or conduit carrying wastewater or unpolluted drainage in which owners of abutting properties shall have the use, subject to control by the town of Caddo.
SANITARY SEWER: A public sewer that conveys domestic wastewater or industrial wastes or a combination of both, and into which storm water, surface water, ground water, and other unpolluted wastes are not intentionally passed.
SLUG: Any discharge of water, wastewater 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 of flows during normal operation.
STANDARD METHODS: The examination and analytical procedures set forth in the latest edition, at the time of analysis, of "Standard Methods For The Examination Of Water And Wastewater" as prepared, approved and published jointly by the American Public Health Association, the American Water Works Association, and the Water Pollution Control Federation.
STORM SEWER: A public sewer which carries storm and surface waters and drainage and into which domestic wastewater or industrial wastes are not intentionally passed.
STORM WATER: Rainfall or any other forms of precipitation.
SUSPENDED SOLIDS: Solids measured in mg/l that either float on the surface of, or are in suspension in, water, wastewater, or other liquids, and which are largely removable by a laboratory filtration device.
TO DISCHARGE: Includes to deposit, conduct, drain, emit, throw, run, allow to seep, or otherwise release or dispose of, or to allow, permit, or suffer any of these acts or omissions.
TOWN: The town of Caddo, Oklahoma, or any authorized person acting in its behalf.
TRAP: A device designed to skim, settle, or otherwise remove grease, oil, sand, flammable wastes or other harmful substances.
UNPOLLUTED WASTEWATER: Water containing:
A. No free or emulsified grease or oil;
B. No acids or alkalis;
C. No phenols or other substances producing taste or odor in receiving waters;
D. No toxic or poisonous substances in suspension, colloidal state, or solution;
E. No noxious or otherwise obnoxious or odorous gases;
F. Not more than ten milligrams per liter (10 mg/l) each of suspended solids and BOD; and
G. Color not exceeding fifty (50) units as measured by the platinum-cobalt method of determination as specified in "Standard Methods".
WASTE: Rejected, unutilized or superfluous substances in liquid, gaseous, or solid form resulting from domestic, agricultural, or industrial activities.
WASTEWATER: A combination of the water carried waste from residences, business buildings, institutions, and industrial establishments, together with any ground water, surface water and storm water that may be present.
WASTEWATER FACILITIES: Includes all facilities for collection, pumping, treating, and disposing of wastewater and industrial wastes.
WASTEWATER SERVICE CHARGE: The charge on all users of the public sewer system whose wastes do not exceed in strength the concentration values established as representative of normal wastewater.
WASTEWATER TREATMENT PLANT: Any town owned facilities, devices, and structures used for receiving, processing and treating wastewater, industrial waste, and sludge from the sanitary sewers.
WATERCOURSE: A natural or manmade channel in which a flow of water occurs, either continuously or intermittently. (1999 Code § 6-301)