For the purposes of this chapter, the following words and phrases shall have the following meaning ascribed to them respectively, unless otherwise excepted.
(1) "Act" means the Clean Water Act (33 U.S.C. 1251 et. seq.) as amended. Public Law 92-500, and any amendments thereto, as well as, any guidelines, limitations and standard promulgated by the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency pursuant to the Act.
(2) "Biochemical Oxygen Demand (BOD)" means the quantity of oxygen utilized in the biochemical oxidation of organic matter under standard laboratory procedure, as outlined in the Environmental Protection Agency Guidelines, establishing test procedures for the analysis of pollutants, as specified in 40 CFR, Part 136, in 5 days at 20 degrees Centigrade, expressed in Parts Per Million (PPM) by weight or milligrams (mg/l).
(3) “Building drain” means that part of the horizontal piping of sanitary drainage system which extends from a point 3 feet outside of the building wall and which receives the discharge from sanitary conveniences, wastes, and other drainage pipes inside the walls of the buildings and conveys it to the public sanitary sewer, private sewer, individual sewage disposal system, or other point of disposal.
(4) “Categorical Pretreatment Standards” means the national pretreatment standards specifying the quantities or concentrations of pollutants or pollutant properties which may be discharged or introduced into the sewage disposal system by specific industrial users.
(5) “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 (mg/l). (Ref. 40 CFR, Part 136).
(6) “Combined sewer” shall mean a sewer intended to receive both sewage and storm or surface water.
(7) “Compatible pollutant” shall include Biochemical Oxygen Demand (BOD), Suspended Solids, pH, Fecal Coliform Bacteria, plus additional pollutants, as identified in the POTW National Pollution Discharge Elimination System (NPDES) Permit, providing the Village Wastewater Treatment Plant is designed to treat such pollutants and in fact, does remove such pollutants to comply with all discharge requirements of the NPDES Permit.
(8) “Cooling water” or “industrial cooling water” means the unpolluted water discharged from any system of condensation, air conditioning cooling, refrigeration or other similar non contact use which meets the criteria established by the OEPA for effluent discharged into water courses within the jurisdiction of the Village of Carey.
(9) “Floatable oil” means oil, fat, or grease in a physical state, such that it will separate by gravity from wastewater by treatment in an approved pretreatment facility.
(10) “Garbage” means solid wastes from the preparation, cooking or the dispensing of food, and from the handling, storage and sale of produce.
(11) “Properly shredded garbage” means the waste from preparation, cooking and dispensing of food that has been shredded to such a degree that all particles will be carried freely under the flow conditions normally prevailing in the public sewers, with no particulate greater then one half inch (½") in any dimension.
(12) “Incompatible pollutant” means any pollutant which is not a compatible pollutant as defined in Item 7 of this section.
(13) “Indirect discharge” means the discharge or the introduction of non domestic pollutants from a source regulated under the "Act" into the POTW.
(14) “Industrial waste” means solids, liquids or other wastes resulting from commercial manufacturing or industrial operations, trade or business processes or from the development, recovery or processing of natural resources, as distinct from sanitary sewage.
(15) “Interceptor” means a devise designed and installed so as to separate and/or retain deleterious, hazardous or undesirable matter from entering the normal wastes, and permits normal wastewater to discharge to the disposal terminal by gravity.
(16) “Interference” means the inhibition or disruption of the POTW system, treatment processes, or operations which contributes to a violation of any portion of the Village's NPDES Permit to discharge.
(17) “Natural outlet” means any outlet into a water course, pond, ditch, lake or other body of surface or ground water.
(18) “Normal strength sewage or wastes” as defined for the purpose of determining surcharge shall mean, sewage or wastes, having a average daily suspended solids concentration of not more than 200 mg/1, an average daily BOD concentration of not more than 200 mg/1 and not containing any of the characteristics in excess of the limitations as prohibited and established by this ordinance.
(19) “NPDES Permit” means National Pollution Discharge Elimination System Permit issued to the Village of Carey by the OEPA.
(20) “OEPA” shall mean the Ohio Environmental Protection Agency.
(21) “Person” means any individual, firm, company, association, society, corporation or group.
(22) "pH" means the logarithm of the reciprocal of the weight of the Hydrogen ions in grams per liter of solution.
(23) “Pollutant” means dredged spoil, solid waste, incinerator residue, wastewater, garbage, wastewater sludge, munitions, wrecked or discarded equipment, rock, sand, cellar dirt and industrial, municipal, and agricultural waste discharged into water.
(24) “POTW” means Publicly Owned Treatment Works and shall be defined as any sewage treatment works and the sewers and conveyance appurtenances discharging thereto, owned and operated by the Village of Carey.
(25) "PPM" means Parts Per Million by weight and/or Milligrams Per Liter (mg/l).
(26) “Pretreatment” means the reduction of the amount of pollutants, the elimination of pollutants or the alteration of the nature of pollutant properties in wastewater to less harmful state prior to, or in lieu of, discharging or otherwise introducing such pollutants into the POTW.
(27) “Public sewer” means a sewer in which an owners of abutting properties having equal rights, and is controlled by the Village.
(28) “Sanitary sewage” means waste from water closets, urinals, laboratories, sinks, bathtubs, showers, household laundries, cellar floor drains, garage floor drains, bars, soda fountains, refrigerator drips, drinking fountains, store rooms and stable floor drains.
(29) “Sanitary sewer” means a sewer which carries sewage and wastes and to which storm, surface and ground waters are not intentionally admitted.
(30) “Sewage” means and is synonymous with "wastewater" which means spent water of a community. It may be a combination of the liquid and water carried wastes from residences, commercial buildings, industrial plants, institutions, together with any ground water, surface water and storm water that may be present.
(31) “Sewer” means any pipe or conduit which carries wastewater or sewage.
(32) “Sewer tapping” means the construction of a building sewer or building drain connected to a sanitary sewer or storm drain forming part of the public sewer system.
(33) “Shall” is mandatory; "may" is permissive.
(34) “SIC Manual” means the Standard Industrial Classification Manual 1972, Office of Management and Budget as amended and supplemented.
(35) “Slug” means any discharge of water or waste which is concentrated of any given constituent or in quantity of flow, for any period of duration of longer than fifteen (15) minutes, exceeds more than five (5) times the average twenty-four (24) hour concentrations or flows during normal operations and/or that adversely affects the collection system and/or performance of the POTW.
(36) “Storm drain” synonymous with "storm sewer" means a drain or sewer for carrying water, ground water, subsurface water, or unpolluted water from any source, but excludes sewage.
(37) “Storm water runoff” means that portion of the rainfall that is drained into the storm sewers.
(38) “Surcharge” means a fee in addition to the service charge which is levied on those persons whose wastes are greater in strength then the concentration values established as representative of normal sewage.
(39) “Suspended solids” means total suspended matter that either floats on the surface of/or is suspended in water, wastewater, or other liquids, and is removable by laboratory filtering as described in Standard Methods For The Examination Of Water And Wastes and referred to as “non-filterable residue".
(40) “Toxic pollutant” means pollutants included and promulgated by the USEPA as toxic.
(41) “Unpolluted water” is water of quality, equal to or better then the effluent criteria in effect or water that would not cause violation of receiving water standards, and would not be benefited by discharge to the sanitary sewers and POTW.
(42) “Upset” an exceptional incident in which a user unintentionally and temporarily is in the state of non-compliance with the standards set forth in this chapter due to factors beyond the reasonable control of the user, and excluding non-compliance to the extent caused by operational error, improperly designed treatment facilities, inadequate treatment facilities, lack of preventative maintenance, or careless or improper operation thereof.
(43) “USEPA” shall mean United States Environmental Protection Agency.
(44) “User classification” means the division of users within the Village service area by the origin of the sewage discharged and by similarity of the function of such users. These are stated in two (2) general classes, they are:
(a) “Industrial users” a person who discharges to the POTW industrial wastes as defined in sub-section 14 hereof.
(b) “Non-industrial users” means single family or equivalent residences or other persons which discharge only segregated domestic wastes from sanitary conveniences into the POTW.
(45) “Village Administrator” means the Village Administrator of the Municipal Wastewater Treatment Works or POTW or his authorized Deputy, Agency or Representative.
(46) “Wastewater Treatment Plant” or “WWTP” means Village POTW and all devices and structures for treating and disposing of sewage and sludge.
(47) “Watercourse” means a channel in which a flow of water occurs, either continuously or intermittently.
(Ord. 95-7. Passed 6-19-95.)