Unless the context specifically indicates otherwise, the meaning of terms in this Chapter and Chapter 917
shall be as follows:
(a) "BOD" (biochemical oxygen demand) means the quantity of oxygen utilized in the biochemical oxidation of organic and/or nitrogenous matter under standard laboratory procedure in five days at twenty degrees centigrade.
(b) "Building drain" means the part of the lowest horizontal piping of a drainage system which receives the discharge from sanitary, waste and other drainage pipes inside the walls of the building and conveys it to the building sewer, beginning five feet outside the inner face of the building wall.
(c) "Building sewer" means the extension from the building drain to the public sewer or other place of disposal, also referred to as house lateral.
(d) "City" means City of Celina, Ohio.
(e) "Cooling Water" means the unpolluted water discharge from any system of heat transfer, such as condensation, air conditioning, cooling or refrigeration.
(f) "Combined sewer" means a sewer receiving both surface runoff and sewage.
(g) "Director'' means the Safety-Service Director of the City or his duly authorized agent.
(h) "EPA" means United States Environmental Protection Agency (USEPA) and/or Ohio Environmental Protection Agency (OEPA).
(i) "FSE" or "Food Service Establishment" means any facility which cuts, cooks, bakes, prepares or serves food or which disposes of food related wastes.
(j) "Food waste or garbage grinder" means a device that shreds or grinds up solid or semi-solid waste materials into smaller portions for discharge into the sanitary sewer.
(k) "Garbage" means solid wastes from the preparation, cooking and dispensing of food and from the handling, storage and sale of produce.
(l) "Grease" means a group of substances including hydrocarbons, fatty acids, soaps, fats, waste oils or any other related material from animal, vegetable or petroleum sources. The aggregate term fats, oil and grease shall be considered as grease by definition.
(m) "Grit" means a mostly inorganic, highly abrasive material found in wastewater that typically settles faster than the organic matter.
(n) "Hauler" means one who transfers waste from the site of an owner to an approved site for disposal or treatment.
(o) "Industrial wastes" means any solid, liquid or gaseous waste resulting from any industrial manufacturing, trade, or business process or from the development, recovery or processing of natural resources.
(p) "Interceptor" means a device so constructed as to separate, trap and hold fats, oil, grease and grit substances from the wastewater and to prevent these substances from entering the POTW.
(q) "MCHD" means Mercer County Health Department
(r) "Natural outlet" means any outlet into a watercourse, pond, ditch, lake or other body of surface or ground water.
(s) "OBC" means Ohio Building Code.
(t) "PDI" means Plumbing and Drainage Institute.
(u) "pH" means the logarithm to the base 10, of the reciprocal of the weight of hydrogen ions in grams per liter of solution.
(v) "POTW' or "publicly owned treatment works" means a treatment works, which is owned or operated by the City, including any devices and systems used in the storage, collection, treatment, recycling and reclamation of municipal sewage or industrial wastes of a liquid nature from sources inside and outside of the City. This definition also includes sewers, pipes, pump stations, canals, ditches and other conveyances if they convey wastewater to a POTW treatment plant. This term can also mean the City of Celina, which is the public authority, which owns or operates the POTW.
(w) "Person" means any and all persons, natural or artificial including any individual firm, company, municipal or private corporation, partnership, co-partnership, joint stock company, trust, estate, association, society, institution, enterprise, governmental agency, the State of Ohio, the United States of America or other legal entity, or their legal representatives, agents, or assigns. The masculine gender includes the feminine, the singular includes the plural where indicated by the context.
(x) "Private sewage disposal system" means any sewage disposal or treatment system or part thereof including but not limited to septic tanks or privy vaults.
(y) "Privy" or "privy vault" means any sanitary, waterless device for the collection and storage of human excreta but does not include chemical commodes or other portable receptacles.
(z) "Properly shredded garbage" means the wastes from the preparation, cooking, and dispensing of food that have been shredded to such 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.
(aa) "Public Authority" means any government entity having jurisdiction.
(bb) "Public sewer" means a sewer in which all owners of abutting properties have equal rights, and is controlled by public authority.
(cc) "Sanitary Sewer" means a sewer which carries sewage and to which storm, surface and ground waters are not intentionally admitted.
(dd) "Septic Tank" means any watertight, covered receptacle designed and constructed to receive the discharge of sewage from a private building sewer and to discharge the effluent.
(ee) "Sewage" means a combination of the water carried wastes from residences, business buildings, institutions and industrial establishments, together with such ground, surface and storm waters as may be present.
(ff) "Sewage Treatment Works" means all facilities for collecting, pumping, treating and disposing of sewage.
(gg) "Sewer" means any pipe, conduit, ditch or other device used to collect and transport sewage or storm water from the generating source.
(hh) "Shall" is mandatory; "may" is permissive.
(ii) "State" means the State of Ohio.
(jj) "Storm sewer" or "storm drain" means a sewer which carries storm and surface waters and drainage but excludes sewage and polluted industrial wastes.
(kk) "TKN" or "Total Kjeldahl Nitrogen" means the sum of ammonia and organic nitrogen compounds which are converted to ammonia sulfate under analytical or test conditions.
(ll) "Total Suspended Solids" or "TSS" 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.
(mm) "Under sink or in-line grease trap" means a device, placed under or in close proximity to a sink or other fixture likely to discharge grease, whose purpose is to separate, trap or withhold oil and grease from the wastewater and to prevent these substances from entering the POTW.
(nn) "Unpolluted water" or "unpolluted drainage" means water to which no constituent has been added either intentionally or accidentally.
(oo) "Watercourse" means a channel in which Waters of the State flow either continuously or intermittently. (Ord. 23-10-0. Passed 6-21-10.)