For the purpose of this chapter, the following definitions shall apply unless the context clearly indicates or requires a different meaning.
ASTM. The American Society for Testing and Materials.
BOD or BIOCHEMICAL OXYGEN DEMAND. The quantity of oxygen utilized in the biochemical oxidation of organic matter under standard laboratory procedures in five days at 20°C, expressed in milligrams per liter (mg/l).
GARBAGE. Solid wastes from the domestic and commercial preparation, cooking and dispensing of food and from the handling, storage and sale of produce.
GRAVITY SERVICE LINE. A pipe or conduit for collecting and transporting sewage from one or more septic tanks to a pumping station.
HEALTH OFFICER. Any representative of the County Health Department.
INDUSTRIAL WASTES. The liquid wastes from industrial manufacturing processes, trade or business as distinct from sanitary sewage.
INSPECTOR. The person or persons duly authorized by the town, through its Town Council, to inspect and approve the installation of building and on-site sewers, extensions of the public sewer system and their connection to the pressure sewer mains.
MAY. It is permissive.
MOUND SYSTEM. A septic tank–soil absorption system which functions by pumping the septic tank effluent to an aggregate-filled bed supported above the original ground by sand fill.
NATURAL OUTLET. Any outlet into a watercourse, pond, ditch, lake or other body of surface water or groundwater.
NORMAL STRENGTH SEWAGE. Sewage that has a five-day biochemical oxygen demand (BOD5) concentration of 200 milligrams per liter and a suspended solids (SS) concentration of 200 milligrams per liter.
NPDES. The National Pollutant Discharge Elimination System.
ON-SITE SEWER. The portion of the public sewer that is generally located on private property, including, but not limited to, septic tanks, gravity service lines to an effluent pumping station, effluent pumping stations, pressure service lines to a pressure sewer main and all the appurtenances thereof.
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 (gm/l) of solution.
PRESSURE SERVICE LINE. A pipe or conduit for transporting sewage under pressure from a single pumping station.
PRESSURE SEWER MAIN. A pipe or conduit for collecting and transporting sewage under pressure from multiple pumping stations.
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 in any dimension.
PUBLIC SEWER. The septic tank effluent pumping (STEP) sewer system of the town, including, but not limited to, on-site septic tanks, gravity service lines to an effluent pumping station, effluent pumping stations, pressure service lines to a pressure sewer main, pressure sewer mains and all the appurtenances thereof.
SANITARY BUILDING DRAIN. The part of the lowest horizontal piping of the sanitary drainage system inside the walls of any building which receives the discharge from soil or waste stacks and branches and conveys the same to a point outside the building walls, where it connects with its respective on-site sewer.
SEPTIC TANK EFFLUENT PUMPING (STEP) SEWER SYSTEM. A sanitary sewer system for the collection and transportation of sewage that pumps the effluent from septic tanks through a network of pipes to a point of disposal.
SEWAGE. A combination of the water-carried wastes from residences, business buildings, institutions and industrial establishments, together with such groundwaters as may be present.
SEWAGE WORKS. All facilities for collecting, pumping, treating and disposing of sewage.
SEWER. A pipe or conduit for carrying sewage.
SHALL. It is mandatory.
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 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.
SUPERINTENDENT. The Superintendent of the municipal sewage works of the town, or his or her 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 which are removable by laboratory filtering.
TOWN. The Town of Darmstadt, Indiana.
USER. Any person or persons and any establishment of any kind discharging or causing the discharge of wastewater into the sewer system of the town.
WATERCOURSE. A channel in which a flow of water occurs either continuously or intermittently.
WEF. The Water Environment Federation.
(Ord. 1987-1, passed 3-12-1987)