For use in this chapter unless the context specifically indicates otherwise, the following terms are defined:
BOD (Denoting Biochemical Oxygen Demand): The quantity of oxygen utilized in the biochemical oxidation of organic matter under standard laboratory procedure in five (5) days at twenty degrees centigrade (20°C), expressed in milligrams per liter or parts per million.
BUILDING DRAIN: That part of the lowest horizontal piping of a building drainage system which receives the discharge from soil, waste, and other drainage pipes inside the walls of the building and conveys it to the building sewer, beginning five feet (5') (1.5 m) outside the inner face of the building wall.
BUILDING SEWER: That part of the horizontal piping from the building wall to its connection with the main sewer or the primary treatment portion of an on site wastewater treatment and disposal system conveying the drainage of one building site.
CUSTOMER: Any person responsible for the production of domestic, commercial or industrial waste which is directly or indirectly discharged into the public sewer system.
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.
INSPECTOR: The person duly authorized by the council to inspect and approve the installation of building sewers and their connections to the public sewer system, and to inspect such sewage as may be discharged therefrom.
NATURAL OUTLET: Any outlet into a watercourse, pond, ditch, lake, or other body of surface or ground water.
ON SITE WASTEWATER TREATMENT AND DISPOSAL SYSTEM: All equipment and devices necessary for proper conduction, collection, storage, treatment, and disposal of wastewater from four (4) or fewer dwelling units or other facilities serving the equivalent of fifteen (15) persons (1,500 gpd) or less.
pH: The logarithm of the reciprocal of the weight of hydrogen ions in grams per liter of solution.
PUBLIC SEWER: A sewer in which all owners of abutting properties have equal rights, and is controlled by public authority.
SANITARY SEWAGE: Sewage discharging from the sanitary conveniences of dwellings (including apartment houses and hotels), office buildings, factories and/or institutions, and free from storm, surface water, and industrial waste.
SANITARY SEWER: A sewer which carries sewage and to which storm, surface, and ground waters 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 storm waters as may be present.
SEWAGE TREATMENT PLANT: Any arrangement of devices and structures used for treating sewage.
SEWAGE WORKS OR SEWAGE SYSTEM: All facilities for collecting, pumping, treating, and disposing of sewage.
SEWER: A pipe or conduit for carrying sewage.
SEWER SERVICE CHARGES: Any and all charges, rates or fees levied against and payable by customers, as consideration for the servicing of said customers by said sewer system.
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 fifteen (15) minutes more than five (5) times the average twenty four (24) hour concentration of flows during normal operation.
STORM DRAIN OR STORM SEWER: A sewer which carries storm and surface waters and drainage but excludes sewage and industrial wastes, other than unpolluted cooling water.
SUSPENDED SOLIDS: 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.
WATERCOURSE: A channel in which a flow of water occurs, either continuously or intermittently. (2000 Code § 95.02)