For the purpose of this chapter the following definitions shall apply unless the context clearly indicates or requires a different meaning.
(a) “Biochemical oxygen demand (BOD)” means the quantity of oxygen utilized in the biochemical oxidation of organic matter under standard laboratory procedure in five days at 20° C., expressed in milligrams per liter.
(b) “Building drain” means that part of the lowest horizontal piping of a drainage system which receives the discharge from the soil, waste, and other drainage pipe inside the walls of the building and conveys it to the building sewer, which begins four 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, also called “house connection”.
(d) “Chemical oxygen demand” means the quantity of oxygen utilized in the chemical oxidation of organic matter under standard laboratory procedures expressed in milligrams per liter.
(e) “Combined sewer” means a sewer intended to receive both wastewater and storm or surface water.
(f) “Compatible pollutant” means BOD, suspended solids, pH, and fecal coliform bacteria plus additional pollutants identified in the NPDES permit if the publicly owned treatment works was designed to treat such pollutant, and in fact does remove such pollutants to a substantial degree. Examples of such additional pollutants may include:
(1) COD;
(2) Total organic carbon;
(3) Phosphorous and phosphorous compounds;
(4) Nitrogen and nitrogen compounds;
(5) Fats, oils, and greases of animal or vegetable origin except as prohibited under Section 921.13.
(g) “Commercial unit or class” means a building or part of a building used by one commercial private or public enterprise for uses other than as a dwelling, but not classified as an institutional or industrial unit.
(h) “Cooling water” means the water discharged from any use such as air conditioning, cooling or refrigeration, during which the only pollutant added to the water is heat.
(i) “Debt service charge” means the charge levied on users to make principal and interest payments and/or participation payments to OWDA required for the amortization of the cost of the wastewater collection and treatment facilities.
(j) “Discharge unit” means any residence, commercial establishment, industry or private or public facility generating, accumulating and/or otherwise discharging liquid waste either directly or ultimately into any of the sewer systems of the Village.
(k) “Domestic sanitary wastewater” means a wastewater discharge having the average characteristics equivalent to 200 mg/l BOD and 240 mg/l suspended solids concentrations.
(l) “Easement” means an acquired legal right for the specific use of land owned by others.
(m) “Engineer” means the Village Engineer as designated by the Village Council.
(n) “Federal Act” means the Federal Water Pollution Contract Act Amendments of 1972 and 1977, Public Law 92-500 and any amendments thereto; as well as any guidelines, limitations and standards promulgated by the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency pursuant to the Act.
(o) “Floatable oil” means oil, fat, or grease in a physical state such that it will separate by gravity from wastewater by treatment in an approved pretreatment facility.
(p) “Garbage” means the animal and vegetable waste resulting from the handling, preparation, cooking, and serving of foods.
(q) “Incompatible pollutant” means any pollutant which is not a “compatible pollutant” as defined in this section.
(r) “Industrial user or class” means any nongovernmental, nonresidential user of a publicly owned treatment works which discharges more than the equivalent of 25,000 gallons per day (gpd) of sanitary wastes and which is identified in the Standard Industrial Classification Manual, 1972, Office of Management and Budget, as amended and supplemented under one of the following divisions:
Division A. Agriculture, Forestry, and Fishing
Division B. Mining
Division C. Manufacturing
Division D. Transportation, Communications, Electric,
Gas, and Sanitary Services
Division E. Services
Industrial shall include manufacturing activities involving the mechanical or chemical transformation of materials or substances into other products. These activities occur in establishments usually described as plants, factories, or mills and characteristically use power driven machines and material handling equipment.
(1) In determining the amount of a user's discharge, the grantee may exclude domestic wastes or discharges from sanitary conveniences.
(2) After applying the sanitary waste exclusion in subsection (1) hereof (if the Village chooses to do so), discharges in the above divisions that have a volume exceeding 25,000 gpd or the weight of biochemical oxygen demand (BOD) or suspended solids (SS) equivalent to that weight found in 25,000 gpd of sanitary waste are considered industrial users. Sanitary wastes, for purposes of this calculation of equivalency, are equal to “domestic sanitary wastewater”, as defined in this section. The strength of residential discharges is herein defined as BOD5 less than or equal to 200 mg. per liter and suspended solids less than or equal to 200 mg. per liter.
(3) Any nongovernmental user of a publicly owned treatment works which discharges wastewater to the treatment works which contains toxic pollutants or poisonous solids, liquids, or gases in sufficient quantity either singly or by interaction with other wastes to contaminate the sludge of any municipal systems, or to injure or to interfere with any sewage treatment process, or which constitutes a hazard to humans or animals, creates a public nuisance, or creates any hazard in or has an adverse effect on the waters receiving any discharge from the treatment works.
(4) All commercial users of an individual system constructed with grant assistance under Section 201(h) of the Act.
(s) “Industrial wastes” means the wastewater from industrial processes, trade, or business as distinct from domestic or sanitary wastes.
(t) “Institutional unit or class” means hospitals, nursing homes, schools, Village, county, state or federal buildings, government users, or facilities not engaged in profit oriented business that discharge wastewater into the public wastewater treatment system, works and facility.
(u) “Major contributing industry” means an industrial user of the publicly owned treatment works that:
(1) Has a flow of 50,000 gallons or more than average work day;
(2) Has a flow greater than five percent of the flow carried by the municipal system receiving the waste;
(3) Has in its waste a toxic pollutant in toxic amounts as defined in standards issued under Section 307 (a) of the Federal Act; or
(4) Is found by the permit issuance authority in connection with the issuance of an NPDES permit to the publicly owned treatment works receiving the waste, to have significant impact, either singly or in combination with other contributing industries, on that treatment works or upon the quality of effluent from that treatment works.
(v) “May” is permissive; “shall” is mandatory.
(w) “Natural outlet” means any outlet including storm sewers and combined sewer overflows into a watercourse, pond, ditch, lake, or other body of surface or groundwater.
(x) “NPDES (National Pollution Discharge Elimination System) Permit” means the permit issued by the State of Ohio for operation of a wastewater treatment works.
(y) “Operation, maintenance and replacement costs” means all costs associated with the operation, maintenance and replacement of wastewater collection and treatment facilities as well as costs associated with periodic equipment replacement necessary for maintaining capacity and performance of the wastewater collection and treatment facilities.
(z) “Person” means any individual, firm, company, association, society, corporation, or group.
(aa) “pH” means the reciprocal of the logarithm of the hydrogen ion concentration. The concentration is the weight of hydrogen ions, in grams, per liter of solution. Neutral water, for example, has a pH value of 7 and a hydrogen ion concentration of 10-7.
(bb) “Pollutant” means dredged spoil, solid waste, incinerator residue, wastewater, garbage, waste water sludge, munition, wrecked or discarded equipment, rock, sand, cellar dirt, and industrial, municipal and agricultural waste discharged into the water.
(cc) “Properly shredded garbage” means 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 ½ inch (.127 centimeters) in any dimension.
(dd) “Pretreatment” means the treatment of wastewaters from sources before introduction into publicly owned wastewater treatment facilities.
(ee) “Public sewer” means a common sewer controlled by a government agency or public utility.
(ff) “Replacement” means expenditures for obtaining and installing equipment, accessories, or appurtenances which are necessary during the service life of the treatment works to maintain the capacity and performance for which such works were designed and constructed. The term “operation and maintenance” includes replacement.
(gg) “Residential unit or class” means a principal family residence or habitation classified as a single family, multi-family or apartment dwelling, that discharges domestic sanitary wastewater into the public wastewater treatment system, works and facility.
(hh) “Sanitary sewer” means a sewer that carries liquid and water-carried wastes from residences, commercial buildings, industrial plants, and institutions together with minor quantities of ground, storm, and surface waters that are not admitted intentionally.
(ii) “Sewer service charge” means the charge levied on users for capital cost amortization (debt service charges) and for operation, maintenance and replacement costs (user charges). Such sewer service charge includes debt service charges and user charges.
(jj) “Sewage” means the spent water of a community. The preferred term is "wastewater", as defined below.
(kk) “Sewer” means a pipe or conduit that carries wastewater or drainage water.
(ll) “Slug” means any discharge of water or wastewater 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 or flows during normal operation, and which adversely affect the collection system and/or performance of the wastewater treatment works.
(mm) “Storm drain” or “storm sewer” means a drain or sewer for conveying water, groundwater, subsurface water, or unpolluted water from any source.
(nn) “Storm water” means any flow occurring during or immediately following any form of natural precipitation and resulting therefrom. Water originating from precipitation which is captured in roof drains and down spouts, footer and foundation tiles, ground drainage tiles and catch basins and which does not undergo any use or contamination prior to disposal.
(oo) “Superintendent” means the Administrator or such other person as may be appointed by Council, or his authorized representative.
(pp) “Suspended solids” means total suspended matter that either floats on the surface of, or is in suspension in water, wastewater, or other liquids, and that is removable by laboratory filtering as prescribed in "Standard Methods for the Examination of Water and Wastewater" and referred to as non filterable residue.
(qq) “Tap charge” means the charge levied by the Village on new users connecting to the Village sanitary sewer system, which is charged to maintain equitable capital recovery amounts for use of the sewer system by new connections.
(rr) “Toxic pollutants” includes but is not necessarily limited to aldrin-dieldrin, benzidine, cadmium, cyanide, DDT-endrin, mercury, polychlorinated biphenyls (PCB's) and toxaphene. Pollutants included as “toxic” shall be those promulgated as such by the United States Environmental Protection Agency.
(ss) “Unpolluted water” means water of a quality equal to or better than the effluent criteria in effect or water that would not cause violation of receiving water quality standards and would not be benefitted by discharge to the sanitary sewers and wastewater treatment facilities provided.
(tt) “User charge” means the charge levied on the users of the treatment works for the cost of operation, maintenance and replacement of such works, pursuant to Section 204(b) of Title II of the Federal Water Pollution Control Act of 1972 (Public Law 92500) and amendments thereto.
(uu) “Wastewater” means the spent water of a community. From the standpoint of source, it may be a combination of liquid and water-carried wastes from residences, commercial buildings, industrial plants, and institutions, together with any groundwater, surface water, and stormwater that may be present.
(vv) “Wastewater facilities” means the structures, equipment and processes required to collect, carry away, and treat domestic and industrial wastes and dispose of the effluent.
(ww) “Wastewater Treatment Works” means an arrangement of devices and structures for treating wastewater, industrial wastes, and sludge. Sometimes used as synonymous with “Waste Treatment Plant”, “Wastewater Treatment Plant” or “Water Pollution Control Plant”.
(xx) “Watercourse” means a natural or artificial channel for the passage of water either continuously or intermittently.
(Ord. 1179. Passed 3-21-77; Ord. 96-4. Passed 5-20-96.)