Unless the context specifically indicates otherwise, the meaning of terms used in this chapter shall be as follows:
(a) "Debt service" means the payment requirements to retire the Wastewater Treatment Works debt through cash generated during the period of time that the debt is outstanding.
(b) "Operation and maintenance costs" means the expense of collecting, pumping, treating, transporting and disposing of wastewater.
(c) "Replacement costs" means expenditures for obtaining and installing equipment, accessories or appurtenances which are necessary during the useful life of the Treatment Works to maintain the capacity and performance for which such Works were designed and constructed. Unless specifically excluded, the term operation and maintenance shall include replacement.
(d) "Service charge" means the charge to each recipient of wastewater collection and treatment services within the City and County service areas tributary to the City Wastewater Treatment Plant representing a proportionate share of the costs of operation and maintenance including replacement of all wastewater collection and treatment service provided. An incremental charge for the recovery of "debt service" may be included.
(e) "SIC Manual" means the Standard Industrial Classification Manual, 1972, Office of Management and Budget, as amended and supplemented.
(f) "Users class" means the division of users within the City or County service areas, by the origin of the sewage discharged and by the similarity of the function of such users. Stated in three general classes, they are:
(1) "Residential user" means all single-family residences and apartments up to six units per building which discharge only wastes from sanitary conveniences.
(2) "Industrial user" includes all entities producing trade or process wastes regardless of size or average daily flow.
(3) "Commercial user" includes all users not included in subsections (f)(1) and (2) hereof.
(g) "User, right-to-service" means any person who by contractual arrangements and/or by special permit reserves, uses, purchases and/or sets aside a certain capacity of the Wastewater Treatment Works for current or future use. Examples of such classification are: one political subdivision agreeing to treat the liquid sanitary waste of another; a land developer reserving a specified number of future tap-ins; and/or any industrial user reserving a specified capacity of the Wastewater Treatment Works.
(h) "Suspended solids (SS)" 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; particulate matter which does not settle but which can be filtered from sewage; a measurement of waste matter in sewage.
(i) "Biochemical oxygen demand (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; the amount of oxygen required to decompose organic matter in sewage; a measurement of pollutant strength in sewage.
(Ord. 31-81. Passed 12-1-81.)