For the purpose of this chapter the words and phrases defined hereunder shall have the meanings therein respectively ascribed to them.
(a) "B.O.D." or "Biochemical Oxygen Demand" means that quantity of oxygen utilized in the biochemical oxidation of organic matter under standard laboratory procedure in five days at twenty degrees centigrade, expressed in parts per million by weight. Such B.O.D. shall be determined as described under the heading "Biochemical Oxygen Demand" in the latest edition of "Standard Methods for the Examination of Water, Sewage and Industrial Wastes", as publisher jointly by the American Public Health Association, the American Water Works Association and the Federation of Sewage and Industrial Wastes Associations.
(b) "Building drain" means that part of the lowest horizontal piping of a 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 outside the inner face of the building wall.
(c) "Building sewer" means the extension from the building drain to the public sewer or other place of disposal.
(d) "Combined sewer" means a sewer receiving both surface runoff and sewage.
(e) "Garbage" means solid wastes from the preparation, cooking and dispensing of food, and from the handling, storage and sale of produce.
(f) "Industrial wastes" means the liquid wastes from industrial, commercial or manufacturing processes as distinct from sanitary sewage.
(g) "Natural outlet" means any outlet into a watercourse, pond, ditch, lake or other body of surface or ground water.
(h) "Person" means any individual, firm, company, association, society, corporation or group.
(i) "pH" means the logarithm of the reciprocal of the weight of hydrogen ions in grams per liter of solution.
(j) "Properly shredded garbage" means the wastes from the preparation, cooking and dispensing of foods 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 in any dimension.
(k) "Public sewer" means a sewer in which all owners of abutting properties have equal rights and which is controlled by public authority.
(l) "Sanitary sewage" means the waste from water closets, urinals, lavatories, sinks, bath tubs, showers, household laundries, cellar floor drains, garage floor drains, bars, soda fountains, cuspidors, refrigerator drips, drinking fountains and stable floor drains.
(m) "Sanitary sewer" means a sewer which carries sewage and to which storm, surface and ground waters are not intentionally admitted.
(n) "Sewage" means 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.
(o) "Sewage treatment plant" means any arrangement of devices and structures used for treating sewage.
(p) "Sewage works" means all facilities for collecting, pumping, treating and disposing of sewage.
(q) "Sewer" means a pipe or conduit for carrying sewage.
(r) "Shall" is mandatory; "may" is permissive.
(s) "Storm sewer" or "storm drain" means a sewer which carries storm and surface waters and drainage, but excludes sewage and polluted industrial wastes.
(t) "Suspended solids" means the dry weight of the solids physically suspended in a flow of sewage, industrial waste, or water as determined by the method of determining suspended matter described under the heading "Suspended Matter" in the latest edition of Standard Methods of the Examination of Water, Sewage, and Industrial Wastes, as published jointly by the American Public Health Association, the American Water Works Association and the Federation of Sewage and Industrial Wastes Association and expressed in parts per million by weight.
(u) "Watercourse" means a channel in which a flow of water occurs, either continuously or intermittently.
(Ord. 465. Passed 1-17-66.)