(1) “Biochemical oxygen demand (BOD)" means the quantity of oxygen expressed in milligrams per liter, utilized in five days at twenty degrees Centigrade, in the biochemical oxidation of organic matter under standard laboratory procedure, as prescribed in Standard Methods for the Examination of Water and Wastewater, American Water Works Association, Water Pollution Control Federation and American Public Health Association, Thirteenth Edition.
(2) "Building drain" means that part of the lowest horizontal piping of a drainage system which receives the discharge from soil waste and other drainage pipes inside the walls of a building and conveys it to the building sewer beginning three feet outside of the building wall.
A. "Sanitary building drain" means a building drain which conveys sanitary or industrial sewage only.
B. "Storm building drain" means a building drain which conveys storm water or other clear water drainage, but no wastewater.
(3) "Building sewer" means that part of the sanitary sewer which connects the plumbing of the house or building to a common or public sewer (also called a house connection). The building sewer begins three feet outside of the foundation wall.
A. "Sanitary building sewer" means a building sewer which conveys sanitary or industrial sewage only.
B. "Storm building sewer" means a building sewer which conveys storm water or other clear water drainage, but no sanitary or industrial sewage.
(4) "Business Manager" of the Department of Service, Division of Water and Division of Sewers, means the Municipal Manager.
(5) "Combined sewage" means wastes, including sanitary sewage, industrial sewage, storm water, infiltration and inflow carried to the wastewater treatment facilities by a combined sewer.
(6) "Compatible pollutant" means biochemical oxygen demand, suspended solids, pH and fecal coliform bacteria, plus additional pollutants identified in the NPDES permit, if the treatment works was designed to treat such pollutants and in fact does remove such pollutants to a substantial degree. The term "substantial degree" is not subject to precise definition, but generally contemplates removals in the order of eighty percent or greater.
Minor incidental removals in the order of ten to thirty percent are not considered substantial. Examples of the additional pollutants which may be considered compatible include:
A. Chemical oxygen demand;
B. Total organic carbon;
C. Phosphorus and phosphorus compounds;
D. Nitrogen and nitrogen compounds; and
E. Fats, oils and greases of animal or vegetable origin (except as prohibited where these materials would interfere with the operation of the treatment works).
(7) "Connection charge" means the statutory fee charged, pursuant to Ohio R.C. 729.06, for the privilege of connecting to the sewers or sewerage treatment or disposal works of the Municipal system. Such connection shall not be permitted until such charge has been paid in full or until provision for the payment in installments has been made pursuant to Ohio R.C. 729.06.
(8) "Consumers" means all customers and users of the public water supply and sanitary sewerage system, or both, of the Municipal system.
(9) "Debt service costs" means the average annual principal and interest payments on all outstanding revenue bonds or other long term capital debt.
(10) "District" means the sewer districts established by Council.
(11) "Domestic sewage" means wastes derived principally from dwellings, business buildings, institutions and the like, which wastes originate within the building, including wastes from kitchens, water closets, lavatories, bathrooms, showers and laundries, and which are characterized by a per capita discharge of 100 gallons per day and a loading of 200 mg/l BOD and 250 mg/l SS.
(12) "Easement" means a grant by the owner of land to the Municipality for a specified use of land for the installation and maintenance of sanitary sewers and/or water mains for an indefinite period of time or as dedicated for public right-of-way.
(13) "Equalization charge" means the fee charged for a permit to connect to an existing water or sewer system for property not included as improved property in the computation of assessments or unit charges levied against improved properties for the construction of the original system as property abutting such system.
(14) "Flotable oils" means oil, fat or grease in a physical state, such that it will separate by gravity from wastewater by treatment in a pretreatment facility approved by the district.
(15) "Foundation drains" means subsurface drains laid around the foundation of a building, either within or outside of the building foundation, for the purpose of carrying ground or subsurface water to some point of disposal.
(16) "Hydrant meter deposit" means the deposit required to secure hydrant service.
(17) "Incompatible pollutant" means any pollutant that is not defined as a compatible pollutant, including nonbiodegradable dissolved solids.
(18) "Industrial and commercial wastes" means the liquid wastes from industrial, manufacturing, trade or business processes as distinct from sanitary sewage.
(19) "Industrial sewage or wastes" means a combination of liquid and water carried wastes discharged from industrial establishments and resulting from any trade or process carried on in that establishment, including the waste from pretreatment facilities and polluted cooling water.
(20) "Infiltration" means the water entering a sewer system, including building drains and sewers, from the ground, through such means as, but not limited to, defective pipes, pipe joints, connections or manhole walls. "Infiltration" does not include and is distinguished from "inflow."
(21) "Infiltration/inflow" means the total quantity of water from both infiltration and inflow without distinguishing the source.
(22) "Inflow" means the water discharge into a sewer system, including building drains and sewers, from such sources as, but not limited to: roof leaders, cellars, yard and area drains, foundation drains, unpolluted cooling water discharges, drains from springs and swampy areas, manhole covers, cross connections from storm sewers, combined sewers, catch basins, storm waters, surface run-off, street wash waters or drainage. "Inflow" does not include, and is distinguished from, "infiltration."
(23) "Inspector" means a duly appointed representative of the Department of Service who is responsible for the enforcement of the specifications and quality of construction.
(24) "Major contributing industry" means an industry that:
A. Has a flow of 30,000 gallons or more per average work day;
B. Has a flow greater than five percent of the flow carried by the municipal 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 PL 92-500; or
D. Has a significant impact, either singly or in combination with other contributing industries, on a treatment works or on the quality of effluent from that treatment works.
(25) "Nonparticipant charge" means the fee, representing a prorated share of original cost, charged to nonparticipants in the original cost of water or sewer improvements constructed pursuant to a private construction reimbursement contract.
(26) "NPDES permit" means a permit issued under the National Pollutant Discharge Elimination System for the discharge of wastewaters to the navigable waters of the United States pursuant to Section 402 of PL 92-500.
(27) "Operation and maintenance costs" means all costs, direct and indirect, which are necessary to provide adequate wastewater collection, transport and treatment on a continuing basis and product discharges to receiving waters that conform with all related Federal, State and local requirements. These costs include replacement.
(28) "Other service charges" means tap charges, connection charges, area charges and other identifiable charges, other than user charges, debt service charges and excessive strength surcharges.
(29) "Permit" means evidence of permission to connect to the water supply or sanitary sewer system.
(30) "Person" means any individual, firm, company, association, society, corporation or group discharging any wastewater to the district's wastewater collection system.
(31) "pH" means the reciprocal of the logarithm of the hydrogen ion concentration. The concentration is the weight of hydrogen ions, in grams per liter of solution.
(32) "Pretreatment" means the treatment of industrial sewage from privately owned industrial sources prior to introduction into a public treatment works.
(33) "Private sewer" means a sewer which is not owned by a public authority.
(34) "Properly shredded garbage" means the wastes from the 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 public sewers, with no particle greater than one half inch in any dimension.
(35) "Public sewer" means a sewer which is owned and controlled by the public authority and which consists of the following increments:
A. "Collector sewer" means a sewer whose primary purpose is to transport wastewater from collector sewers to a treatment facility.
B. "Force main" means a pipe in which wastewater is carried under pressure.
C. "Pumping station" means a station positioned in the public sewer system at which wastewater is pumped to a higher level.
(36) "Replacement costs" means the expenditures for obtaining and installing equipment, accessories or appurtenances which are necessary during the service life of the sewage works equipment to maintain the capacity and performance for which such works were designed and constructed.
(37) "Sanitary engineer" means the appointed representative of Council in the Department of Service. The Sanitary Engineer will be appointed by the Manager with the concurrence of Council.
(38) "Sanitary sewage" means a combination of the water carried wastes from residences, business buildings, institutions and commercial and industrial establishments contributed by reasons of human occupancy.
(39) "Sanitary sewer" means a pipe or conduit (sewer) designed for the purpose of carrying domestic and industrial wastes from the point of origin to a sewage treatment facility or to a place of disposal, but which is not intended to carry storm, surface, ground or subsurface water.
(40) "Sewage" means a combination of liquid and water carried wastes from residences, commercial buildings, industrial plants and institutions, including polluted cooling water. The three most common types of sewage are sanitary sewage, industrial sewage and combined sewage.
(41) "Sewage system" means all of the facilities for collecting, pumping, treating and disposing of sanitary sewage to and through the sewage treatment or disposal works.
(42) "Sewage works" means the structures, equipment and processes to collect, transport and treat domestic and industrial wastes and to dispose of the effluent and accumulated residual solids.
(43) "Sewer" means a pipe or conduit for carrying sewage.
(44) "Slug" means any discharge of water or wastewater which, in concentration of any given constituent or in quantity of flow, exceeds for longer than ten minutes more than three times the average twenty-four hour concentration or flow during normal operation and adversely affects the collection system.
(45) "Specifications" means the construction requirements adopted by the Municipality, by ordinance, from time to time.
(46) "Standard methods" means the laboratory procedures set forth in the latest edition, at the time of analysis, of Standard Methods for the Examination of Water and Wastewater, prepared and published jointly by the American Public Health Association, the American Water Works Association and the Water Pollution Control Federation.
(47) "Storm sewer" or "storm drain" means a pipe or conduit designed for the purpose of carrying storm, surface, cooling, drainage or unpolluted water from the point of origin to some point of disposal, but which is not intended to carry domestic or industrial sewage.
(48) "Suspended solids (SS)" means solids that either float on the surface of, or are in suspension in, water, sewage or other liquids, and which are removable by laboratory filtering.
(49) "Tap-in charge" means the statutory fee charge, pursuant to Ohio R.C. 729.06, for the privilege of connecting to the water/sewer system. Such charge must be paid in full prior to obtaining service.
(50) "Total solids" means the sum of suspended and dissolved solids.
(51) "Toxic amount" means concentrations of any pollutant or combination of pollutants which, upon exposure to or assimilation into any organism, will cause adverse effects such as cancer, genetic mutations and physiological manifestations, as defined in standards issued pursuant to Section 307(a) of PL 92-500.
(52) "User" means a party or persons using the services of the sewage works in one of the following categories:
A. "Residential user" means a user whose premises are used primarily as a domicile for one or more persons and whose wastes originate from normal living activities.
B. "Commercial user" means a user who is engaged in the purchase or sale of goods, the transaction of business or otherwise rendering a service.
C. "Institutional user" means a user who is involved primarily in social, charitable, religious, educational or other special purpose activity.
D. "Industrial user" means a user who is engaged in a manufacturing or processing activity that discharges a trade or process wastewater as a result of such activity.
E. "Government user" means a municipality or governmental subdivision or agency existing under Federal or State statute.
(53) "User charge" means a charge levied on users of the wastewater treatment works for the cost of operation and maintenance of such works pursuant to Section 204(b) of PL 92-500.
(54) "Wastewater treatment plant" means any arrangement of devices and structures used for treating wastewater collected by the sanitary sewer system.
(56) "Water service/sewer service lateral" means that part of the water or sewer system which connects the plumbing of a house or building to the public water or sewer main.
(57) "Water supply system" means any or all sources of water supply, pumping equipment, treatment plants, distributing mains, reservoirs, tanks and other equipment and land, rights-of-way and easements necessary for the proper development and distribution of the supply.
(Ord. 9-87. Passed 3-9-87.)