For the purpose of this title, the following definitions shall apply unless the context clearly indicates or requires a different meaning.
APPLICANT. Any person making application for service.
APPROVED BACKFLOW PREVENTION DEVICE. A device to counteract backpressures or prevent backsiphonage. This device must appear on the list of approved devices issued by the State Health Division.
AUXILIARY SUPPLY. Any water source or system other than the public water system that may be available in the building or on the premises.
BACKFLOW. The flow in the direction opposite to the normal flow or the introduction of any foreign liquids, gases or substances into the water system of the city’s water.
BIOCHEMICAL OXYGEN DEMAND (BOD). 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.
BUILDING DRAIN. The 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 (1.5 meters) outside the inner face of the building wall.
BUILDING SEWER. The extension from the building drain to the owner’s property line.
CITY ADMINISTRATOR. The person appointed by the Mayor and City Council to fulfill the duties of the office of City Administrator or the Administrator’s authorized deputy, agent or representative.
COMBINED SEWER. A sewer that is designed as a sanitary sewer and a storm sewer.
CONTAMINATION. The entry into or presence in a public water supply system of any substance which may be deleterious to health and/or quality of water.
CROSS-CONNECTION.
(1) Any physical arrangement where a public water system is connected, directly or indirectly, with any other non-drinkable water system or auxiliary system, sewer, drain conduit, swimming pool, storage reservoir, plumbing fixture, swamp coolers or any other device which contains, or may contain, contaminated water, sewage or other liquid of unknown or unsafe quality which may be capable of imparting contamination to the public water system as a result of backflow.
(2) Bypass arrangements, jumper connections, removable sections, swivel or changeover devices or other temporary or permanent devices through which, or because of which, backflow may occur are considered to be CROSS-CONNECTIONS.
CUSTOMER. The person who owns the premises receiving water, sewer or electrical service.
CUSTOMER SERVICE LINE. The part of the piping on a customer’s premises that connects the service connection to the customer’s distribution system.
DEGREE OF HAZARD. Shall be derived from the evaluation of a health, system, plumbing or pollutional hazard.
ELECTRIC METERS. An instrument used for measuring the electric energy or power delivered to the customer.
GARBAGE. Solid wastes from the domestic and commercial preparation, cooking and dispensing of food, and from the handling, storage and sale of produce.
HEALTH HAZARD. An actual or potential threat of contamination of a physical or toxic nature to the public potable water system or the consumer’s potable water system that would be a danger to health.
INDUSTRIAL WASTES. The liquid wastes from industrial manufacturing processes, trade or business as distinct from sanitary sewage.
KILOWATT (KW). A unit of power equal to 1,000 watts or 1.341 horsepower.
KILOWATT-HOUR (KWH). The amount of energy delivered in one hour when delivery is at a constant rate of one kilowatt (3,412.8 BTUs).
LOAD. The power requirement, usually measured in kilowatts, of a system or piece of equipment at a given instant, or the average rate of energy used during any designated period of time.
LOAD FACTOR. The ratio of average kilowatt load to the kilowatt demand during any designated period, expressed in percentage.
MAIN. A water line designed or used to service more than one premises.
MONTH. The period approximating one month in length and coinciding with the dates on which regular water or electric meters are read. A fraction of a month shall be charged as a full month.
NATIONAL ELECTRIC CODE. The State Electrical Specialty Code, being O.A.R. 918-305-000 et seq., as adopted by the State Department of Commerce pursuant to O.R.S. 455.010 through 455.450.
NATURAL OUTLET. Any outlet into a watercourse, pond, ditch, lake or other body of surface or groundwater.
PERSON. Individuals, corporations, associations, firms and partnerships.
pH. The logarithm of the reciprocal of the weight of hydrogen ions in grams per liter of solution.
PLUMBING HAZARD. An internal or plumbing-type cross-connection in a consumer’s potable water system that may be either a pollutional or a contamination-type hazard. This includes, but is not limited to, cross-connections to toilets, sinks, lavatories, wash trays, domestic washing machines and lawn sprinkling systems. Plumbing-type cross-connections can be located in many types of structure, including homes, apartment houses, hotels and commercial or industrial establishments.
POLLUTIONAL HAZARD. An actual or potential threat to the physical properties of the water system or the potability of the public or the consumer’s potable water system but which would not constitute a health or system hazard, as defined herein. The maximum degree of intensity of pollution to which the potable water system could be degraded under this definition would cause a nuisance or be aesthetically objectionable or could cause minor damage to the system or its appurtenances.
POTABLE WATER SUPPLY. Any system of water supply intended or used for human consumption or other domestic uses.
POWER. The rate of generating, transferring, transforming or use of energy measured in kilowatts or horsepower.
POWER FACTOR. The ratio of kilowatts to kilovolt-amperes expressed in percentage.
PREMISES. Any piece of land to which water is provided, including all improvements, mobile home(s) and structures located on it.
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 (1.27 centimeters) in any dimension.
PUBLIC SEWER. A sewer in which all owners of abutting properties have equal rights and is controlled by public authority.
READILY ACCESSIBLE. That which is normally and easily reached during regular daytime service hours and free of all obstructions; not subject to being under private “lock and key,” “fenced-in” or within a “dog-run” area.
REDUCED PRESSURE PRINCIPLE DEVICE.
(1) An assembly containing two independently acting approved check valves together with a hydraulically-operated, mechanically independent pressure differential relief valve located between the check valves and at the same time below the first check valve.
(2) The device shall include properly located test blocks and tightly closing shut-off valves at the end of the assembly. A check valve is approved it appears on the list of approved devices issued by the State Health Division.
SANITARY SEWER. A conduit intended to carry liquid and water-carried wastes from residences, commercial buildings, industrial plants and institutions together with minor quantities of groundwater, stormwater and surface waters that are not intentionally admitted.
SERVICE CONNECTION. The portion of the water distributing system which connects the meter to the main and shall normally consist of a corporation stop, service pipe, curb stop and box, meter, meter yolk and meter box.
SERVICE DROP. The overhead service conductors from the last pole or other aerial support, including the splices, if any, which connect to the service entrance conductors at the building or other structure.
SERVICE ENTRANCE. The service conductors and conduit/cable between the terminals of the service equipment (see National Electrical Code requirements) and the point of attachment of the service drop or service lateral.
SERVICE LATERAL. The underground service conductors (and raceway, if used) between the secondary distribution system (including any risers at a pole or other structures or from transformers, junction box or underground vault) and the first point of connection to the service entrance conductors.
SERVICE LINE. The sewer connection between the public sewer line and the building sewer.
SEWAGE. A combination of the water-carried wastes from residences, business buildings, institutions and industrial establishments, together with such groundwaters, surface waters and stormwaters as may be present.
SEWAGE TREATMENT PLANT. Any arrangement of devices and structures for treating sewage.
SEWAGE WORKS. All facilities for collecting, pumping, treating and disposing of garbage.
SEWER. A pipe or conduit for carrying sewage.
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 or flows during normal operation.
SPACE. As the term applies to permanent or semi-permanent locations for mobile homes, trailers or recreational vehicles, shall mean each location where a sewer, water or electrical system connection is available for such dwelling units or vehicles and shall include each community toilet, washroom or laundry facility in a mobile home, trailer or recreational vehicle park.
STANDBY SERVICE. Water service which is used for fire protection purposes and not for any other purpose.
STORM SEWER or STORM DRAIN. A sewer designed to carry only stormwaters, surface runoff, street wash waters and drainage.
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.
SYSTEM HAZARD. An actual or potential threat of severe damage to the physical properties of the public or consumer’s potable water system of a pollution or contamination which would have a detrimental effect on the quality of the potable water in the system.
THERMAL EXPANSION. Heated water that does not have the space to expand.
UTILITY. Water, sewer and/or electric service.
WATERCOURSE. A channel in which a flow of water occurs, either continuously or intermittently.
WEATHERHEAD. The termination at the end of the conduit through which the customer’s conductors pass for attachment to an aerial service drop.
(Prior Code, § 50.09) (Ord. 261, passed 5-8-1979; Ord. 343, passed 7-8-1991)