For purposes of this chapter the following definitions shall apply unless the context clearly indicates or requires a different meaning.
BUILDING DRAIN. That part of the lowest horizontal piping of a drainage system which receives the discharge from soil, waste and other drain pipes inside the walls of the building and conveys it to the building sewer, beginning approximately five feet outside the inner face of the building wall.
BUILDING SEWER. The extension from the building drain to the public sewer or other place of disposal.
CESSPOOL. An underground pit into which raw household sewage or other untreated liquid waste is discharged and from which the liquid seeps into the surrounding soil or is otherwise removed.
CITY MANAGER. The City Manager for the City of Cheboygan or his/her authorized representative or agent.
COMBINATION SEWER or COMBINED SEWER. The extension from the building drain to the public sewer or other place of disposal.
DRY WELL. See SEEPAGE PIT.
GARBAGE. Solid wastes from the preparation, cooking and dispensing of food, and from the handling, storage, processing and sale of perishable produce.
GREASE INTERCEPTOR (or GREASE TRAP). A tank of suitable size and material located in a sewer line and designed to remove grease and oily wastes from the sewer.
HEALTH OFFICER. The legally designated health authority of the city, or his authorized representative.
INDUSTRIAL WASTES. The liquid wastes, solids, or semi-solids from industrial processes as distinct from domestic sanitary sewage.
MAY. Is permissive.
NATURAL OUTLET. Any outlet into a watercourse, pond, ditch, lake or other body of water, either surface or ground water.
NUISANCE. Shall mean, but is not limited to, any condition where sewage (or garbage) is exposed to the surface of the ground or is permitted to drain on or to the surface of the ground, into any ditch, storm sewer, lake or stream, or when the odor, appearance, or presence of this material has an obnoxious or detrimental effect on or to the senses and for health of persons, or when it shall obstruct the comfortable use or sale of adjacent property.
PERSON. Any individual, firm, company, association, society, corporation or group.
pH. The logarithm of the reciprocal of the weight of hydrogen ions in grams per liter of solution.
PROPERLY SHREDDED GARBAGE. The wastes from the cooking, preparation and dispensing of food that has been cut or shredded to such a degree that all particles will be carried freely under flow conditions normally prevailing in public sewers, with no particle greater than one-half inch in any dimension.
PUBLIC SEWER. A sewer in which all owners of abutting property have equal rights and is controlled by public authority.
SANITARY SEWER. A sewer which carries sewage and to which storm, surface and ground waters are not intentionally admitted.
SEEPAGE PIT (or DRY WELL). A cistern underground enclosure constructed of concrete blocks, bricks, or similar material loosely laid with open joints so as to allow the septic tank overflow or effluent to be absorbed directly into the surrounding soil.
SEPTIC TANK. A water-tight receptacle receiving sewage and having an inlet and outlet designed to permit the separation of solids in suspension from such wastes and to permit such retained solids to undergo decomposition therein.
SEWAGE. Any combination of water carried wastes from residences, business buildings, institutions, and industrial establishments together with such ground, surface and storm waters as may be present.
SEWAGE DISPOSAL FACILITIES. Privy, cesspool, seepage pit, septic tank, absorption field, or other devices used in the disposal of sewage or human excreta.
SEWAGE TREATMENT PLANT. Any arrangement of devices and structures used for treating sewage.
SEWAGE WORKS. All facilities for collecting, pumping, treating and disposing of sewage.
SEWER. Any pipe, tile, tubes, or conduit for carrying sewage.
SHALL. Is mandatory.
STORM SEWER or STORM DRAIN. A sewer which carries storm and surface waters and drainage but which excludes sewage and polluted industrial wastes.
STORM WATER. That part of precipitation which reaches the sewers as run-off from natural land surface, building roofs, or pavements or as ground water infiltration.
SUB-SURFACE DISPOSAL FIELD. A facility for the distribution of septic tank overflow or effluent below the ground surface through a line, or a series of branch lines, of drain tile laid with open joints to allow the overflow or effluent to be absorbed by the surrounding soil throughout the entire field.
UNCONTAMINATED INDUSTRIAL WASTE. Waste water which has not come into contact with any substance used in or incidental to industrial processing operations and to which no chemical or other substance has been added.
WATERCOURSE. A channel in which a flow of water occurs, either continuously or intermittently.
(Ord. passed 3-28-06)