Unless the context specifically indicates otherwise, the meaning of terms used in this chapter shall be as follow:
(a) "B.O.D." (Biochemical Oxygen Demand) means the quantity of oxygen utilized in the biochemical oxidation of organic matter under standard laboratory procedure in five days at 20° Centigrade, expressed in milligrams per liter.
(b) "Building Drain" means that part of the lowest horizontal piping of a drainage system which receives discharge from soil, waste and other drainage pipes inside the walls of the building and conveys it to the building sewer, beginning three feet outside the outer 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) "Garbage" means solid wastes from the preparation, cooking and dispensing of food and from handling, storage and sale of produce.
(e) "General Manager of Public Utilities" means the General Manager of Public Utilities of the Village or his authorized deputy, agent or representative.
(f) "Industrial Cooling Water" means water discharged from any system of condensation, air conditioning, cooling, refrigeration or other similar use, which shall be free from odor or oil. It shall not contain polluting substances which will produce B.O.D. or suspended solids in excess of ten parts per million by weight of each.
(g) "Industrial Wastes" means the water carried wastes and liquid wastes from industrial processes, manufacturing, trade, or business from sanitary sewage.
(h) "Properly Shredded Garbage" means the wastes from the preparation, cooking and dispensing of food that have been shredded to such a degree that all the particles will be carried freely under the flow conditions normally prevailing in public sewers, with no particles greater than ½-inch in any dimension.
(i) "Natural Outlet" means any point of discharge into a water course, pond, ditch, lake or other body of surface or ground water.
(j) "pH" means the logarithm of the reciprocal of the weight of hydrogen ions in grams per liter of solution.
(k) "Pretreatment" means the application of physical, chemical and biological processes to reduce the amount of pollutants in or alter the nature of the pollutant properties in a wastewater treatment system.
(l) "Pretreatment Standards"" means all applicable federal rules and regulations implementing Section 307 of the Federal Water Pollution Control Act of 1972, as well as any nonconflicting state or local standards. In cases of conflicting standards or regulations, the more stringent thereof shall be applied.
(m) "Public Sewer" means a sewer owned or controlled by the Village.
(n) "S.S." (Suspended Solids) means solids that either float on the surface of or are in suspension in water, sewage or other liquids, and which are removable by the laboratory filtering.
(o) "Sanitary Sewage" means sewage discharging from sanitary conveniences of dwellings (including apartment houses, hotels, motels), office buildings, factories or institutions, and free from storm, surface, ground waters and industrial wastes.
(p) "Sanitary Sewer" means a sewer which carries sewage and wastes and to which storm, surface and ground waters are not intentionally admitted.
(q) "Sewage" or "Wastewater" means the water carried wastes from residences, business buildings, institutions and industrial establishments, singular or in any combination, together with such ground, surface and storm waters as may be present.
(r) "Sewage Treatment Plant" means any arrangement of devices and structures used for treating sewage.
(s) "Sewage Works" or "Sewage System" means all facilities for collecting, pumping, treating and disposing of sewage.
(t) "Sewer" means a pipe or conduit for the carrying of sewage.
(u) "Sewer Lateral" means the part of the building sewer between the public sewer and the road right-of-way line.
(v) "Storm Sewer" or "Storm Drain" means a sewer which carries storm water and surface waters and drainage, but excludes sewage and industrial waste.
(w) "Unpolluted Industrial Process Water" means any water containing none of the following: free or emulsified grease or oil, acid or alkali, phenols or other substances imparting taste or odor in receiving waters; toxic or poisonous substances in suspension, colloidal state or solution, noxious or odorous gases. It shall contain not more than 10,000 parts per million of dissolved solids of which not more than 2,500 parts per million shall be chlorides, with permissible subject to review by the sewage plant operator, the color shall not exceed 50 parts per million.
(x) "User" means any person, individual, firm, company, association, society, corporation, group or political entity which discharges or is responsible for the discharge of sewage into the sewage system of the Village.
(y) "Village" means the Village of Doylestown, Ohio.
(z) "Watercourse" means a channel in which a flow of water occurs either continuously or intermittently.
(Ord. 6-81-A. Passed 6-2-81.)