For the purpose of this chapter, the following definitions shall apply unless the context clearly indicates or requires a different meaning. SHALL is mandatory, MAY is permissive.
BOD (BIOCHEMICAL OXYGEN DEMAND). The quantity of oxygen utilized in the biochemical oxidation of organic matter under standard laboratory procedure in five days at 20°C, expressed in milligrams per liter.
BUILDING OR HOUSE DRAIN. The part of the lowest horizontal piping of a drainage system which receives the discharge from soil, waste, or other drainage pipes inside the walls of the building and conveys it to the building sewer, beginning five feet (one and one-half meters) 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.
COMBINED SEWER. A sewer receiving both surface runoff and sewage.
GARBAGE. Solid wastes from the domestic and commercial preparation, cooking, and dispensing of food, and from the handling, storage, and sale of produce.
INDUSTRIAL WASTES. The liquid wastes from industrial manufacturing processes, trade, or business as distinct from sanitary sewage.
NATURAL OUTLET. Any outlet into a watercourse, pond, ditch, lake, or other body of surface or groundwater.
OPERATION AND MAINTENANCE. All expenditures during the useful life of the treatment works for materials, labor, utilities, and other items which are necessary for managing and maintaining the sewage works to achieve the capacity and performance for which such works are designed and constructed.
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 preparation, cooking, and dispensing of food that have 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 (1.27 centimeters) in any dimension.
PUBLIC SEWER. A sewer in which all owners of abutting properties have equal rights, and is controlled by public authority.
REPLACEMENT. Expenditures for obtaining and installing equipment, accessories or appurtenances which are necessary during the useful life of the treatment works to maintain the capacity and performance for which such works were designed and constructed. The term “operation and maintenance” includes REPLACEMENT.
SANITARY SEWER. A sewer which carries sewage and to which storm, surface, and groundwaters are not intentionally admitted.
SEWAGE. A combination of the water-carried wastes from residences, business buildings, institutions, and industrial establishments together with such ground, surface, and stormwaters as may be present.
SEWER SYSTEM. All facilities for collecting, pumping, treating, and disposing of sewage.
SLUG. Any discharge of water, sewage, or industrial waste which in concentration of any given constituent or in quantity of flow exceeds for any period of duration longer than 15 minutes more than five times the average 24-hour concentration or flows during normal operation.
STORM SEWER. A sewer for conveying water, groundwater, subsurface water, or unpolluted water from any source.
SUPERINTENDENT. The Utilities Superintendent of the village, or his, her, or their authorized deputy, agent, or representative.
SUSPENDED SOLIDS. Solids that either float on the surface of, or are in suspension in water, sewage, or other liquids, and are removable by filtering.
TREATMENT WORKS. Any devices and systems for the storage, treatment, recycling, and reclamation of village sewage, domestic sewage, or liquid industrial wastes. These include intercepting sewers, outfall sewers, sewage collection system, individual systems, pumping, power, and other equipment and their appurtenances; extensions, improvement, remodeling, additions and alterations thereof; and any works, including site acquisition of the land that will be an integral part of the treatment process or is used for ultimate disposal of residues resulting from such treatment; or any other method or system for preventing, abating, reducing, storing, treating, separating, or disposing of village waste or industrial waste.
VILLAGE. The Village of Clarks, Nebraska.
WATERCOURSE. A natural or artificial channel for the passage of water either continuously or intermittently.
(Prior Code, § 3-202) (Ord. 389, passed 10-4-1988)