(A) For the purpose of this subchapter, the following definitions shall apply unless the context clearly indicates, or requires, a different meaning.
ACT OR THE ACT. The Federal Water Pollution Control Act, also known as the Clean Water Act, as amended, 33 U.S.C. §§ 1251 et seq.
APPLICANT. Property owner, or designated representative.
APPROVAL AUTHORITY. The State Department of Environmental Quality, and the State Department of Health and Human Services, or the successors thereof.
BUILDING DRAIN. The part of the lowest horizontal piping of a drainage system which receives the discharge sanitary waste, and other drainage pipes inside, and five feet beyond the walls of the building, and conveys it to the interceptor tank.
BUILDING SEWER. A sewer privately owned, and constructed, in conformance with the provision hereof, which connects the building drain with the interceptor tank.
CARBONACEOUS BIOCHEMICAL OXYGEN DEMAND FIVE (CBOD5). The quantity of oxygen utilized in the biochemical oxidation of organic matter under standard laboratory procedures for five days at 20°C, usually expressed as a concentration of milligrams per liter (mg/l).
CITY. The City of Cave Springs, Arkansas, its City Council, or its authorized representative.
COMMERCIAL. Includes all sewer users, except residential.
COMMERCIAL or INDUSTRIAL USER. A discharger into the POTW of non-domestic wastewater.
CONNECTION FEE. The fee charged by the city for inspection, and connection, to the sewerage system.
CONTROL AUTHORITY. The Mayor, or his or her authorized representative.
DRIP FIELD. An area of land used for the discharge of effluent through polyethylene drip line and pressure emitters, after it has received secondary treatment.
ENGINEER. Engineer or Superintendent of the City Sewer System, or his or her authorized assistants and inspectors.
ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION AGENCY. The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, or its authorized representative.
GARBAGE.
(a) All putrescible waste, except sewage and body wastes, including wastes accumulated of animals, food, or vegetable matter, and including wastes that attend the preparation, use, cooking, dealing in, or storing of, meat, fish, fowl, fruit, and vegetables, and shall include all such wastes, or accumulations, of vegetable matter of residences, restaurants, hotels, and places where food is prepared for human consumption.
(b) The term GARBAGE shall not include recognized industrial by-products, nor shall it include cans, boxes, cartons, paper, or other objects which may, or may not, have food, or other organic material of any nature in, or adhering to.
GREASE TRAP. A device designed to retain grease from one to a maximum of four fixtures.
INDUSTRIAL WASTES. The liquid wastes from industrial processes, as distinct from sanitary sewage.
INSPECTOR. Superintendent, or designated representative of the city.
INTERCEPTOR (CLARIFIER). A device designed, and installed, so as to separate, and retain, deleterious, hazardous, or undesirable matter from normal waste, and permit normal sewage, or liquid waste, to discharge into the STEP or STEG interceptor tank.
INTERCEPTOR TANK. See STEP INTERCEPTOR TANK and STEG INTERCEPTOR TANK.
LIVING UNIT EQUIVALENCY (LUE). Represents the basis for establishing fees and calculating facility capacity, and is set as two and one-half people per household, or 208 gallons per day of effluent flow.
MAY. Permissive.
NATIONAL POLLUTANT DISCHARGE ELIMINATION SYSTEM (NPDES) PERMIT. A permit issued to a POTW, or other discharger, pursuant to § 402 of the Act, being 33 U.S.C. § 1342.
NATURAL OUTLET. Any outlet into a watercourse, pond, ditch, lake, or other body of surface water or groundwater.
PERSON. Any individual, partnership, co-partnership, firm, company, corporation, association, joint stock company, trust, estate, governmental entity, or any other legal entity, or their legal representatives, agents, or assigns. This definition includes all federal, state, or local governmental entities.
pH. The acidity, or alkalinity, of sanitary or industrial waste. This is equal to the hydrogen ion concentration, as measured by the logarithm of the reciprocal of the weight of hydrogen ions grams per liter of solution.
PLUMBING REGULATIONS. The State Plumbing Regulations (current edition), as adopted by the State Board of Health, and the Standard Plumbing Code of the Southern Building Code Congress International, Incorporated (including all appendices thereto, including the International Private Sewerage Disposal Code).
POLLUTANT. Any dredged spoil, solid waste, incinerator residue, sewage, garbage, sewage sludge, munitions, medical wastes, chemical wastes, biological materials, radioactive materials, heat, wrecked or discharged equipment, rock, sand, cellar dirt, agricultural and industrial wastes, and the characteristics of the wastewater (for example, pH, TSS, turbidity, color, CBOD5, chemical oxygen demand (COD), toxicity, or odor).
PRETREATMENT.
(a) The reduction of the amount of pollutants, the elimination of pollutants, or the alteration of the nature of pollutant properties in wastewater prior to (or in lieu of) introducing such pollutants into the sewerage system.
(b) This reduction, or alteration, can be obtained by physical, chemical, or biological processes; by process changes; or by other means (except by diluting the concentration of the pollutants, unless allowed by an applicable pretreatment standard).
PRETREATMENT REQUIREMENTS. Any substantive, or procedural, requirement, other than a pretreatment standard, related to pretreatment, and imposed on a user.
PRETREATMENT STANDARDS or STANDARDS. Prohibited discharge standards, categorical pretreatment standards, and local limits.
PROHIBITED DISCHARGE STANDARDS or PROHIBITED DISCHARGE. Prohibitions against the discharge of certain substances, as defined in this subchapter.
PUBLIC SEWER. A pipe, or conduit, for carrying sewage placed, or accepted, by the city, consisting of all conduits, interceptor tanks, pumping facilities service lines, system piping, and control panels, but not including the building sewer which connects the building with the interceptor tank.
PUBLICLY-OWNED TREATMENT WORKS.
(a) A treatment works, as defined by § 212 of the Act (33 U.S.C. § 1292) which is owned by the city.
(b) This definition includes any devices, or systems, used in the collection, storage, treatment, recycling, and reclamation of sewage, or industrial, wastes of a liquid nature, and any conveyances which convey wastewater to a treatment plant.
QUALIFIED PROFESSIONAL. A person holding a recognized written certification from the appropriate state licensing board that governs the discipline in which the service is being rendered.
RESIDENTIAL. One, or more, rooms designed for occupancy by one family, and with not more than one cooking facility.
SANITARY SEWER. A sewer which carries sewage, and from which storm, surface, and ground waters are reasonably prohibited.
SEWAGE. A combination of the water carried human wastes, including kitchen, bath, and laundry wastes, from residences, buildings, institutions, establishments, or other places, together with such groundwater infiltration, surface waters, or industrial waste, as may be present.
SEWAGE TREATMENT PLANT. Any arrangement of devices and structures used for treating sewage.
SEWAGE SYSTEM. The system of sanitary sewers, including components for conveyance, treatment, and disposal of sewage within the city.
SEWAGE WORKS. All facilities for collecting, pumping, treating, and disposing of sewage.
SEWER SERVICE CHARGE. A monthly fee, established by the city, charged to all users of the sewerage system.
SHALL. Mandatory.
SHREDDED GARBAGE. Waste from the preparation, cooking, and dispensing of food.
SIGNIFICANT USER.
(a) A user subject to categorical pretreatment standards;
(b) A user that:
1. Discharges an average of 25,000 gpd, or more, of process wastewater to the POTW (excluding sanitary, non-contract cooling, and boiler blowdown wastewater);
2. Contributes a process wastestream, which makes up 5%, or more, of the average dry weather hydraulic, or organic capacity of the POTW treatment plant; or
3. Is designated as such by the Control Authority on the basis that it has a reasonable potential for adversely affecting the POTW’s operation, or for violating any pretreatment standard or requirement.
(c) Upon a finding that a user meeting the criteria in divison (b)2. has no reasonable potential for adversely affecting the POTW’s operation, or for violating any pretreatment standard or requirement, the Control Authority may, at any time on its own initiative, or in response to a petition received from a user (and in accordance with procedures in 40 C.F.R. § 403.8(f)(6)) determine that such user should not be considered a SIGNIFICANT INDUSTRIAL USER.
STANDARD CITY SPECIFICATIONS. The specifications, which are on file in City Hall, to which all municipality-regulated construction shall conform.
STANDARD INDUSTRIAL CLASSIFICATION (SIC) CODE. A classification pursuant to the Standard Industrial Classification Manual, issued by the United States Office of Management and Budget.
STATE. State of Arkansas.
STEG INTERCEPTOR TANK. A septic tank (holding) structure which gravity flows and contains effluent filters. The STEG TANK will be of a design, and size (minimum 1,500 gallons) approved by the State Department of Health and the city.
STEP INTERCEPTOR TANK.
(a) A septic tank (holding) structure which contains facilities for pumping effluent.
(b) The STEP TANK will be of a design, and size (minimum 1,500 gallons) approved by the State Department of Health and the city.
STORM SEWER or STORM DRAIN. A sewer which carries storm, and surface, wastes and drainage, but excludes sewage and industrial wastes.
SUPERINTENDENT. The designated representative of the city responsible for the sewer system.
SURCHARGE FOR STEP. An additional service charge above, and beyond, the normal monthly charge that shall be assessed to the significant users who discharge into the city system wastewater having an average CBOD5 concentration in excess of 150 milligrams per liter, or an average TSS concentration in excess of 150 milligrams per liter.
SUSPENDED SOLIDS. Solids that either float on the surface, or are in suspension in water, sewage, or other liquids, and which are removable by laboratory filtering.
TOTAL SUSPENDED SOLIDS. The total suspended matter that floats on the surface of, or is suspended in, water, wastewater, or other liquid, and which is removable by laboratory filtering.
TOXIC POLLUTANT. Any pollutant, or combination of pollutants, listed as toxic in regulations promulgated by EPA under § 307 (33 U.S.C. § 1317) of the Act.
USER. Any person, user, operator, owner, or customer who contributes, or permits the contribution, of wastewater into the POTW.
WASTEWATER. Liquid and water-carried industrial wastes and sewage from residential dwellings, commercial buildings, industrial and manufacturing facilities, and institutions.
WASTEWATER TREATMENT PLANT. The portion of the POTW which is designed to provide treatment of municipal sewage and industrial waste.
WATERCOURSE. A channel in which a flow of water occurs, either continuously or intermittently.
(B) Words used in the present tense shall include the future, the singular number includes the plural, and the plural includes the singular.
(Prior Code, § 10.04.03) (Ord. 2007-17, passed - -)