For the purposes of this chapter, the following words and phrases shall have the meanings ascribed to them in this section:
(1) "Biochemical oxygen demand (5-day BOD)" means the quantity of oxygen utilized in the biochemical oxidation of organic matter under standard laboratory procedures in five days at twenty degrees Centigrade and expressed in milligrams per liter.
(2) "Chemical oxygen demand (COD)" means the quantity of oxygen utilized in the chemical oxidation of organic matter under standard laboratory procedures expressed in milligrams per liter.
(3) "Combined sewer" means a sewer which transports sanitary sewage, industrial wastes and ground, surface, storm and clear water.
(4) "Compatible pollutant" means pollutants which the waste treatment facilities are designed to treat, plus additional pollutants identified in the NPDES permit if the waste treatment facility was designed to treat such pollutants, and in fact does remove such pollutants to a substantial degree.
(5) "Federal Act" means the Federal Water Pollution Control Act Amendments of 1972, Public Law 92-500 and Public Law 95-217, and any amendments, thereto, as well as any guidelines, limitations and standards promulgated by the U. S . Environmental Protection Agency pursuant to the Act.
(6) "Floatable oil" means oil, fat or grease in a physical state such that it will separate by gravity from sanitary sewage or industrial wastes by treatment in an approved pretreatment facility.
(7) "Garbage" means the animal and vegetable waste resulting from the handling, preparing, cooking and serving of food .
(8) "Incompatible pollutant" means any pollutant which is not a compatible pollutant .
(9) "Industrial user" means any nongovernmental, nonresidential user of a publicly owned treatment works which discharges liquid process or trade wastes resulting from industrial, manufacturing, trade or business processes.
(10) "Industrial wastes" means liquid wastes resulting from industrial, manufacturing, trade and business processes having identifiable chemical or physical characteristics which distinguishes it from sanitary sewage, but which may contain sanitary sewage.
(11) "Major contributing industry" means an industrial user of the publicly owned treatment works that:
A. Has a flow of 50,000 gallons or more per average work day;
B. Has a flow greater than five percent (5%) of the dry weather flow carried by the sewer system receiving the waste;
C. Has in its waste, a toxic pollutant in toxic amounts as defined in standards issued under Section 307(a) of the Federal Act or as herein described in this chapter; or
D. Is found by the permit issuance authority in connection with the issuance of an NPDES permit to the publicly owned treatment works receiving the waste, to have significant impact, either singly or in combination with other contributing industries, on that treatment works or upon the quality of effluent from the treatment works.
(12) "May" is permissive.
(13) "National Pollutant Discharge Elimination System Permit (NPDES Permit)" means the permit required by Ohio and /or U. S . Environmental Protection Agencies to discharge treated or untreated wastes to the waters of the State.
(14) "Natural outlet" means any water outlet, including storm sewers and combined sewer overflows, into a watercourse, pond, ditch, lake or other body of surface or ground water.
(15) "Normal strength sewage or wastes" means sewage having an average daily suspended solids concentration of not more than 200 milligrams per liter, an average daily BOD concentration of not more than 200 milligrams per liter, an average daily PO
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concentration of not more than twenty milligrams per liter, an average daily NH3asN of not more than fifteen milligrams per liter or containing any of the characteristics prohibited by Section 925.11.
(16) "Owner" means the person responsible for the use of land or facilities unless the occupant, renter, or lessee of such land or facilities is designated as the person responsible for the maintenance, improvement, etc. of such land, buildings and facilities in which case the owner shall submit such evidence to indicate this transfer of responsibility. In case of default on the part of the occupant, renter, or lessee of such land or facilities, the owner shall be responsible for any and all debts to the City and requirements of this chapter.
(17) "Person" means any individual, firm, company, association, society, corporation or group.
(18) "pH" means the logarithm of the reciprocal of the weight of hydrogen ions in grams per liter of solution.
(19) "Pollutant" means dredged spoil, solid waste, incinerator, residue, wastewater, garbage, wastewater sludge, munition, wrecked or discarded equipment, rock, sand, cellar dirt, and industrial, municipal and agricultural waste discharged into water.
(20) "Pretreatment" means the preliminary treatment of industrial wastes to reduce the objectionable characteristics or constituents in the wastewater to within prescribed limits and to control the rate of discharge prior to discharge into the sewerage system.
(21) "Properly shredded garbage" means the wastes from the handling, preparing, cooking and serving of foods that have been shredded to such a degree that all particles shall be carried freely under the flow conditions normally prevailing in public sewers, with no particle greater than one-half inch in any dimension.
(22) "Public sewer" means a sewer provided by or subject to the jurisdiction of the City. It shall also include sewers within or outside the City boundaries that serve one or more persons and ultimately discharge into the City sewer system, even though those sewers may not have been constructed with Village funds.
(23) "Sanitary sewage" means any combination of water-carried human wastes from residences, buildings, industrial establishments, institutions, processing plants, commercial establishments or other places in which such wastes are produced together with such ground, surface, storm, clear or other water as may be present.
(24) "Sanitary sewer" means a sewer which transports sanitary sewage and/or industrial wastes and to which ground, surface, storm and clear water may not be discharged.
(25) "Service charge" means the basic fee levied on all users of the public sewer system whose wastes do not exceed in strength the concentration values established as representative of normal sewage.
(26) "Sewerage system" means all facilities for collecting, pumping, transporting, treating and disposing of sanitary sewage and industrial wastes.
(27) "Shall" is mandatory.
(28) "Slug" means any discharge of liquid waste which in concentration of any given constituent or quantity of flow exceeds for any period of duration longer than fifteen minutes more than five times the average twenty- four hour concentration or flow during normal operation.
(29) "Standard laboratory procedures" means all measurements, tests and analyses determined in accordance with the most recent edition of "Standard Methods for Examination of Water and Wastewater", published by the American Public Health Association, or "Methods for Chemical Analysis of Water and Waste", published by the U. S . Environmental Protection Agency.
(30) "Storm sewer" means a sewer which transports ground, surface, storm and clear water and to which sanitary sewage and industrial waste may not be discharged.
(31) "Surcharge" means the fee in addition to the service charge which is levied on those persons whose wastes are greater in strength than the concentration values established as representative of normal sewage.
(32) "Suspended solids" means the dry weight of the solids physically floating or suspended in a flow of sanitary sewage, industrial wastes or water as determined by standard laboratory procedures and expressed in milligrams per liter.
(33) "Toxic pollutants" means those promulgated as such by the U. S . Environmental Protection Agency, including, but not limited to aldrin-dieldrin, benzidine, cadmium, cyanide, DDT-indrin, mercury, polychlorinated biphenyls (PCB's) and toxaphene.
(34) "Unpolluted water" means water of quality equal to or better than the effluent criteria in effect or water that would not cause violation of receiving water quality standards and would not be benefited by discharge to the sanitary sewers and wastewater treatment facilities provided.
(Ord. 31-81. Passed 12-1-81.)