As used in this chapter:
(a) "BOD" (biochemical oxygen demand) means the quantity of oxygen utilized in the biochemical oxidation of organic matter, under standard laboratory procedure, in five days at twenty degrees Celsius (C.), expressed in parts per million (PPM) by weight.
(b) "Commercial user" means a retail or wholesale business establishment that discharges primarily normal strength wastewater into the public wastewater treatment system, works and facility.
(c) "Debt service" means the funds used for the retirement of, and interest on, bonds and/or notes authorized and issued by the City of East Palestine, Ohio, to construct sewage system facilities.
(d) "Industrial user" means a user discharging waste resulting from 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.
(e) "Institutional/governmental user" means hospitals, nursing homes or schools, or City, County, State or Federal buildings or facilities, that discharge wastewater into the public wastewater treatment system, works and facility.
(f) "Normal domestic sewage" means sewage which, when analyzed, shows, by weight, a daily average of not more than 250 PPM of suspended solids and not more than 200 PPM of BOD.
(g) "Operation and maintenance costs" means the costs incurred in the act of keeping all facilities for collecting, pumping, treating and disposing of sewage in a good state of repair and functioning properly, including the replacement of said facilities when necessary.
(h) "Replacement costs" means expenditures for obtaining and installing equipment, accessories and appurtenances which are necessary during the useful life of the treatment works to maintain the capacity and performance for which such works were designed and constructed.
(i) "Residential user" means a principal family residence or habitation classified as a single-family, multifamily or apartment dwelling that discharges domestic sanitary wastewater, having characteristics of 250 milligrams per liter of BOD and 200 milligrams per liter of suspended solids, into the public wastewater treatment system, works and facility.
(j) "Sewer service charge" means the total charge levied against users of the sewage system for sewer services. The charge shall include user charges plus the cost of debt service.
(k) "Suspended solids" (SS) means 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.
(l) "User charge" means the charge assessed users of the sewerage system to recover the cost of operation, maintenance and repair of the sewage collection and sewage treatment system and the cost of rendering bills and collecting sewer service charges.
(m) "User classes" means the user charge system, consisting of the user classes as defined herein.
(Ord. 28-96. Passed 11-25-96.)