Unless the context specifically indicates otherwise, the meaning of terms used in this subchapter shall be as follows.
AMMONIA or NH3-N. Shall have the same meaning as defined in the Sewer Use Ordinance.
BOD or BIOCHEMICAL OXYGEN DEMAND. Shall have the same meaning as defined in the Sewer Use Ordinance.
CBOD or CARBONACEOUS BIOCHEMICAL OXYGEN DEMAND. Shall have the same meaning as defined in the Sewer Use Ordinance.
COD or CHEMICAL OXYGEN DEMAND. Shall have the same meaning as defined in the Sewer Use Ordinance.
DEBT SERVICE COSTS. The average annual principal and interest payments on all proposed revenue bonds or other long-term capital debt.
DWELLING UNIT. A room or rooms with plumbing facilities.
GUEST COTTAGE. A structure that contains a dwelling unit, and the structure is located on a lot that also contains a single-family residence, but the structure does not share a common wall with the single-family residence.
INDUSTRIAL WASTES. The wastewater discharges from industrial, trade, or business processes as distinct from employee wastes or wastes from sanitary conveniences.
MAY. Is permissive.
NPDES (NATIONAL POLLUTANT DISCHARGE ELIMINATION SYSTEM) PERMIT. Shall have the same meaning as defined in the Sewer Use Ordinance.
OPERATION AND MAINTENANCE COSTS. Include all costs, direct and indirect, necessary to provide adequate wastewater collection, transport, and treatment on a continuing basis and produce discharges to receiving waters that conform with all related federal, state, and local requirements.
OTHER SERVICE CHARGES. Tap charges, connection charges, area charges, and other identifiable charges other than excessive strength surcharges.
PERSON. Any and all persons, natural or artificial, including any individual firm, company, municipal or private corporation, association, society, institution, enterprise, governmental agency, or other entity.
PHOSPHORUS. Shall have the same meaning as defined in the Sewer Use Ordinance.
PROPOSED SEWER PROJECT. The project designed by Commonwealth Engineers to construct a new sanitary sewer collection system to collect and transport sewage to the Fremont (Indiana) Municipal Sewage Works treatment plant.
REPLACEMENT COSTS. The 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 the works were designed and constructed.
S.S. or SUSPENDED SOLIDS. Shall have the same meaning as defined in the Sewer Use Ordinance.
SEWAGE. Shall have the same meaning as defined in the Sewer Use Ordinance.
SEWER USE ORDINANCE. A separate and companion enactment to this subchapter, which regulates the connection to and use of public and private sewers.
SHALL. Is mandatory.
TOWN. The Town of Clear Lake acting by and through the Town Council.
TOWN COUNCIL. The Town Council of the Town of Clear Lake, or any duly authorized officials acting on its behalf.
USER CLASS. The division of wastewater treatment customers by source, function, waste characteristics, and process or discharge similarities.
(1) RESIDENTIAL USER. A user of the treatment works whose premises or building is used primarily as a residence for one or more persons, including all dwelling units and the like.
(2) COMMERCIAL USER. Any establishment involved in a commercial enterprise, business, or service which, based on a determination by the town, discharges primarily segregated domestic wastes or wastes from sanitary conveniences.
(3) INSTITUTIONAL USER. Any establishment involved in a social, charitable, religious, and/or educational function, which based on a determination by the town, discharges primarily segregated domestic wastes or wastes from sanitary conveniences.
(4) GOVERNMENTAL USER. Any federal, state, or local governmental user of the wastewater treatment works.
(5) INDUSTRIAL USER. Any manufacturing or processing facility that discharges industrial waste to a wastewater treatment works.
WHOLESALE SEWER TRACKING FACTOR. The charge included in the monthly sewer bill to recover changes in the cost of wholesale sewage treatment and conveyance services provided by other sewage works contracted by the town to provide such services.
(Ord. 275, passed 1-14-02; Am. Ord. 2007-01, passed 4-9-07; Am. Ord. 2017-03, passed 9-11-17; Am. Ord. 2022-02, passed 3-15-22)