Unless the context specifically indicates otherwise, the meaning of terms used in this Chapter shall be as defined in the American Society of Civil Engineers' Manual of Engineering Practice No. 37, and the current edition of the book, Standard Methods for the Examination of Water and Wastewater, published by the American Public Health Association. The meaning of additional terms used in this Chapter shall be as follows:
APPLICANT: Any person, group of persons, who applies for use of the City wastewater collection, treatment, and disposal system.
BOD: Five (5) day biochemical oxygen demand at twenty degrees (20o) Celsius expressed in milligrams per liter, determined according to the current edition of Standard Methods for the Examination of Water and Wastewater.
CHLORINATED HYDROCARBONS: Organic compounds containing one or more chlorine atoms per molecule. The group includes, but is not limited to: insecticides, fungicides, and herbicides such as DDT; DDE; DDD; TCDP; 2,4D; 2,4,5-T; PCBs; aldrin; endrin; dieldrin; heptachlor; toxaphene; lindane; chlorodane; mirex; endosulfan; methoxychor arochors; benzene hexachloride; pentachlorophenol; and other.
CITY: The City of Corcoran, California and/or its designated representatives.
CITY COUNCIL: The City Council of the City of Corcoran.
COMMERCIAL GARBAGE GRINDER: A mechanical unit for pulverizing large quantities of waste by a commercial user.
CONNECTION: The physical attachment of a building premises, fixture, plumbing system, trap, or any other facility discharging wastewater to City sewer.
CUSTOMER: Any person, firm, association, corporation, or governmental agency served by the City.
DIRECTOR OF PUBLIC WORKS: The Director of Public Works of the City of Corcoran or his/her authorized representative acting within the scope of his/her assigned duties.
DISCHARGER: Any person who discharges, causes, or permits the discharge of wastewater into the City wastewater collection or treatment system.
FIXTURE: Lavatory, tub, shower, water closet, garbage disposal, or other facility connected by a plumbing system to a sewer.
FIXTURE UNIT: The flow producing effect of different fixtures on the collection system as defined by the Uniform Plumbing Code, latest edition.
GARBAGE: Solid wastes from the preparation, cooking and dispensing of food, and from the handling, storage, processing and sale of produce.
GREASE, OIL AND FATS: Any material or like material that is soluble in petroleum ether.
INDUSTRIAL DISCHARGER: Any nongovernmental, nonresidential user discharging to the City of Corcoran's wastewater collection, treatment and disposal system, and identified in title 40, Code of Federal Regulations, chapter 1, subchapter N, parts 425 to 699 vol, parts 400 to 424 vol., as amended and supplemented, under the following divisions:
A. Division A. Agriculture, Forestry and Fishing.
B. Division B. Mining.
C. Division D. Manufacturing.
D. Division E. Transportation, Communications, Electric, Gas and Sanitary Services.
E. Division I. Services.
F. Food Processing.
A discharger in the Divisions listed may be excluded if it is determined by the Director of Public Works that it will introduce segregated sanitary sewage.
Industrial discharges under Division I, Services shall include, but shall not be limited to, restaurants, commercial laundries, coin operated laundries, industrial laundries, hospitals, car washes, and service stations. Also included shall be water softening regeneration plants.
INDUSTRIAL WASTEWATER: The waterborne waste and wastewater from any industrial discharger, including but not limited to, water softening regeneration plants.
PERMIT: Written authorization by the Director of Public Works to connect to and discharge to the City wastewater collection and treatment system pursuant to this or any other ordinance of the City.
PERSON: Any individual, partnership, firm, company, association, society, municipality, private corporation, institution, enterprise, governmental agency including the State of California and the United States of America, or other entity.
PROPERLY SHREDDED GARBAGE: The wastes from the preparation, cooking and dispensing of food that has 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 (1/2") in any dimension.
RADIOACTIVE WASTE: Wastes that contain chemical elements that spontaneously change their atomic structure by emitting any particles, rays or energy forms.
REVENUE PROGRAM: System of charges and fees established for the use of the City's wastewater collection, treatment and disposal system and all supporting data used in determining these charges and fees. The revenue program shall meet applicable requirements of the State Clean Water Grant Program and the Federal Act.
REVIEW BOARD: The Sewer Service Charge Review Board consisting of the City Manager, Public Works Director and Finance Director.
SEWAGE (WASTEWATER): A combination of wastes and water, whether treated or untreated, from residences, commercial buildings, institutions and industrial establishments, together with such ground, surface and storm waters as may be present which are discharged into or permitted to enter a City sewer.
SEWER: A pipe or conduit for holding and carrying wastewater, including manholes and all other appurtenant facilities which are necessary or convenient to the holding or carrying of wastewater.
SLUGS: 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 its average hourly concentration or flow.
STORM WATER: Waters that shall not be discharged into the City sewers and shall include, but not be limited to, rain water street drainage, roof drainage or yard drainage.
SUSPENDED SOLIDS: Solids that either float on the surface of, or are in suspension in water, sewage, wastewater or other liquids, and which are removable by laboratory filtration. This is also called suspended matter in Standard Methods for the Examination of Water and Wastewater.
TRAP: Any facility designed, constructed and operated for the purpose of removing and retaining dangerous, deleterious or prohibited constituents from wastewater by differential gravity separation or mechanical separation before discharge to a community sewer.
UNPOLLUTED WATER OR LIQUIDS: Any water or liquid containing none of the following: free or emulsified grease or oil; acids or alkalis; substances that may impact taste-and-odor or color characteristics; toxic or poisonous substances in suspension, colloidal state or solution. It shall contain not more than five hundred (500) parts per million of dissolved solids, and not more than twenty five (25) parts per million each of suspended solids or biochemical oxygen demand, or meet the most recent requirement for secondary treatment defined by the State Water Resources Control Board. Analytical determination shall be made in accordance with procedures set forth in the current edition of Standard Methods for the Examination of Water and Wastewater. Any water having contact with potential pathogen sources is considered to be polluted.
WASTEWATER: The same as sewage. See Sewage.
WATER SOFTENER: A unit using the ion exchange process removing hardness from a water supply and requiring sodium chloride to regenerate the exchange bed. (Ord. 395 N.S., 6-6-1983, eff. 7-1-1983; 1996 Code)