Unless the context specifically indicates otherwise, the meaning of terms used in this chapter shall be as follows:
(1) "Administrator" means the Administrator of the Water/Sewer Department and is given the responsibility to manage the City's water and wastewater system by the Board of Public Utilities.
(2) "Authority" means a government or public agency created to perform a single function or a restricted group of related activities. Usually such units are financed from service charges, fees and tolls, but in some instances they also have taxing powers. An authority may be completed independent of other governments for its creation, financing or the exercise of certain powers.
(3) "Biochemical Oxygen Demand (BOD5)" means the quantity of oxygen utilized in the biochemical oxidation of organic matter under standard laboratory procedure in five days at twenty degrees centigrade, expressed in milligrams per liter.
(4) "Board of Public Utilities" means the Board established by the City and such Board is responsible for managing the water and wastewater systems of the City.
(5) "Building drain" means that part of the lowest horizontal piping of a drainage system carrying wastewater which receives discharge from soil, waste and other drainage pipes inside the walls of the building, and conveys it to the building sewer which begins five feet outside the inner face of the building wall.
(6) "Building sewer" means the extension from the building drain to the public sewer or other place of disposal, also called "house connection".
(7) "Chemical Oxygen Demand (COD)" means the quantity of oxygen utilized in the chemical oxidation of organic matter under standard laboratory procedures expressed in milligrams per liter.
(8) "City" means the City of East Liverpool, Ohio.
(9) "Clean wastewater" or "unpolluted water" means water to which no constituent has been added, either intentionally or accidentally, which would render such water unacceptable for disposal to storm sewers or natural drainage or directly to surface waters.
(10) "Combined sewer" means a sewer which is designed to carry sanitary wastewater, industrial wastewater and stormwater.
(11) "Compatible pollutants" means BOD5, 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 pollutants, and in fact does remove such pollutants to a substantial degree.
(12) "Control manhole" means a structure that is accessible for the purpose of observing, measuring and sampling the wastewater flow in a building sewer. A control manhole may be used for inspecting and/or maintaining the building sewer.
(13) "Cooling water" means the water discharged from any system of condensation, air conditioning, cooling, refrigeration or other sources. It shall be free from odor and oil and shall contain no polluting substances. Cooling water shall be considered industrial wastewater if it is discharged to the sanitary sewer system.
(14) "County" means Columbiana County, Ohio.
(15) "Effluent" means wastewater, water or other liquid, after some degree of treatment, flowing out of any treatment device or facilities.
(16) "EPA methods" means the latest edition of "Methods for Chemical Analysis of Water and Wastes", published by the Environmental Protection Agency, Analytical Quality Control Laboratory, Cincinnati, Ohio.
(17) "Federal Act" means the Federal Water Pollution Control Act Amendments of 1972, 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.
(18) "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.
(19) "Garbage" means solid wastes from the domestic and commercial preparation, cooking and dispensing of food and from the handling, storage and sale of produce.
(20) "Grease and oil" means a group of substances including hydrocarbons, fatty acids, soaps, fats, waxes, oils or any other material that is extracted by a solvent from an acidified sample and that is not volatilized during the laboratory test procedures. Greases and oils are defined by the method of their determination in accordance with "Standard Methods".
(21) "Incompatible pollutant" means any pollutant which is not a "compatible pollutant" as defined in subsection (11) hereof.
(22) "Industrial user" means any nongovernmental, nonresidential user of publicly- owned treatment works which is identified in the Standard Industrial Classification Manual, 1972, Office of Management and Budget, as amended and supplemented, under the following divisions: Division A - Agriculture, Forestry and Fishing; Division B - Mining; Division D - Manufacturing; Division E - Transportation, Communications, Electric, Gas and Sanitary; and Division I - Services.
(23) "Industrial wastewater" (sometimes called "process wastewater") means the liquid wastes from industrial manufacturing processes, trade or business establishments, or from the development, recovery or processing of natural resources, as distinct from "sanitary or domestic wastewater", as defined in subsection (47) hereof.
(24) "Infiltration" means water other than wastewater that enters a sewer system (including sewer service connections and foundation drains) from the ground through such means as defective pipes, pipe joints, connections or manholes. "Infiltration" does not include, and is distinguished from, inflow.
(25) "Inflow" means water other than wastewater that enters a sewer system (including sewer service connections) from sources such as, but not limited to, roof leaders, cellar drains, yard drains, area drains, drains from springs and swampy areas, manhole covers, cross connections between storm sewers and sanitary sewers, catch basins, cooling towers, stormwaters, surface runoff, street wash waters or drainage. "Inflow" does not include and is distinguished from infiltration.
(26) "Influent" means wastewater, raw or partially treated, flowing into any wastewater treatment device or facilities.
(27) "Interceptor sewer" means a sewer which receives wastewater from one or more lateral or local sanitary sewers.
(28) "Major contributing industry" means a contributor that:
A. Has a flow of more than 25,000 gallons per average workday;
B. Has in its waste a toxic pollutant in toxic amounts as defined in Section 307 of the Federal Act;
C. Has a flow greater than five percent (5%) of the flow carried by the municipal system receiving the waste; or
D. Has in its wastes toxic pollutants as defined pursuant to Section 307 of the Act or state statutes and rules or;
E. Is found by the City, State or U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) to have significant impact, either singly or in combination with other contributing industries, on the wastewater treatment system, the quality of sludge, the system's effluent quality or air emissions generated by the system.
(29) "May" is permissive; "shall" is mandatory.
(30) "mg/l" means milligrams per liter.
(31) "National Categorical Pretreatment Standard" or "pretreatment standard" means any regulation containing pollutant discharge limits promulgated by the EPA in accordance with Section 307(b) and (c) of the Act (33 U.S.C. 1347) which applies to a specific category of industrial users.
(32) "Natural outlet" means any outlet, including storm sewers and combined sewer overflows, into a watercourse, pond, ditch, lake or other body of surface or ground water.
(33) "Normal strength wastewater", as defined for the purpose of determining surcharges, means wastewater having an average daily suspended solids concentration of not more than 200 mg/l, an average daily BOD5 of not more than 200 mg/l and containing not more than 100 mg/l of Freon soluble matter (grease and oil).
(34) "NPDES permit" means the National Pollution Discharge Elimination System permit setting forth conditions for the discharge of any pollutant or combination of pollutants to the navigable waters of the United States pursuant to Section 402 of PL 92-500.
(35) "OEPA" means the Ohio Environmental Protection Agency.
(36) "Organic" means containing carbon compounds.
(37) "Owner" means any person in title or having any interest in real property, or a lot, tract, acreage, etc., which is served by or adjacent to any part of the wastewater system of this City.
(38) "Pathogenic bacteria" means bacteria which may cause disease.
(39) "Person" means any person, natural or artificial, including any individual, firm, company, municipal or private corporation, partnership, co-partnership, joint stock company, trust, estate, association, society, institution, enterprise, governmental agency, the State of Ohio, the United States of America or other legal entity, or their legal representatives, agents or assigns. The masculine gender includes the feminine and the singular includes the plural where indicated by the context.
(40) "pH" means the logarithm (base 10) of the reciprocal of the weight of hydrogen ions in grams per liter of solution (low values indicate the presence of acids or acid forming salts. High values indicate the presence of alkaline material. A pH of 7.0 of considered neutral).
(41) "Pollutant" means dredged spoil, solid waste, incinerator residue, wastewater, garbage, wastewater sludge, munitions, wrecked or discarded equipment, rock, sand, cellar dirt and industrial, municipal and agricultural wastes discharged into water.
(42) "ppm" means parts per million by weight or milligrams per liter.
(43) "Pretreatment" means the reduction of the amount of pollutants, the elimination of pollutants or the alteration of the nature of pollutant properties in wastewater to a less harmful state prior to introduction into publicly-owned wastewater treatment facilities.
(44) "Pretreatment ordinance" means the enacted ordinance by the City that sets forth uniform requirements for nondomestic discharges into the City's wastewater collection and treatment systems, and enables the Authority to protect public health in conformity with all applicable local, state and federal laws.
(45) "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 one-half inch in any dimension.
(46) "Public sewer" means a common sewer which is owned and controlled by a public authority.
(47) "Sanitary or domestic wastewater (sewage)" means a combination of water-carried wastes from residences, business buildings, institutions, commercial, industrial and manufacturing establishments, contributed by reason of human occupancy.
(48) "Sanitary sewer" means a sewer which carries sanitary and/or industrial wastewater and to which storm, surface and ground waters are not intentionally admitted.
(49) "Sewer Department" means the department responsible for the operation and maintenance of the sewerage works or wastewater system.
(50) "Sewers" means any pipe or conduit for conveying wastewater.
(51) "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 fifteen minutes, more than five times the average twenty-four hour concentrations or flows during normal operation and shall adversely affect the collection system and/or performance of the wastewater treatment plant.
(52) "Standard Methods" means the laboratory procedures set forth in the latest edition, at the time of analysis, of "Standard Methods for the Examination of Water and Wastewater" prepared and published jointly by the American Public Health Association, the American Water Works Association and the Water Pollution Control Federation.
(53) "Storm sewer" or "storm drain" means a sewer which carries storm, surface waters and drainage but which excludes sanitary wastewater and industrial wastewater, other than unpolluted wastewater and cooling water.
(54) "Superintendent" means the person or agent of the Sewer Department duly appointed to operate, maintain, repair and inspect the system.
(55) "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" and referred to as "nonfilterable residue".
(56) "Total solids" and "total residue" means the sum of suspended and dissolved solids.
(57) "Toxic pollutants" means those substances referred to in Attachment A of the Pretreatment Ordinance, as well as any other known potential substances capable of producing toxic affects.
(58) "U.S. EPA" means the United States Environmental Protection Agency.
(59) "User" means any person or premises that discharges, causes or permits the discharge of wastewater into the public sewer and receives wastewater treatment services.
(60) "User charge" means a charge levied on users to a treatment works for the cost of operation, maintenance and replacement.
(61) "Volatile organic matter" means the material in the wastewater solids transformed to gases or vapors when heated at 550 degrees Centigrade for fifteen to twenty minutes.
(62) "Wastewater" means the spent water of a community. From the standpoint of source, it may be a combination of the 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.
(63) "Wastewater system" means all the property involved in the operation of a wastewater treatment utility. "Wastewater system" includes land, sewer lines and appurtenances, pumping stations, treatment plants and general property. Synonym: sanitary sewerage system, wastewater treatment works.
(64) "Wastewater treatment plant (WWTP)" means any arrangement of devices and structures used for treating wastewater.
(65) "Watercourse" or "waterway" means a channel in which a flow of water occurs, either continuously or intermittently.
(Ord. 40. Passed 8-1-88.)