(a) "Annual review" means the requirement that a review be performed annually of the sewer system service charges to determine if the rates are sufficient to defray the operation, maintenance and replacement (OM&R) costs for the sewer system.
(b) "Combined sewer" means a sewer receiving both surface runoff and sewage.
(c) "Commercial user" means a private or public enterprise for uses other than as a dwelling, such as retail stores, restaurants, office buildings and laundries.
(d) "Debt service " means principal and interest payments required for the amortization of the cost of issuing debt to finance all or a portion of improvements to the sewer system.
(e) "Governmental user" means any Federal, State or local government user of the sewer system.
(f) "Industrial user" means any nonresidential user of the sewer system which is identified in the Standard Industrial Classification (SIC) Manual, 1972, Office of Management and Budget, as amended and supplemented.
(g) "Industrial wastes" means the wastewater from industrial process, trade or business as distinct from domestic or sanitary wastes.
(h) "Institutional user" means an establishment which is involved in social, charitable, religious or education functions, and which discharge primarily segregated domestic wastes or wastes from sanitary conveniences.
(i) "Normal domestic sewage" means wastewater or sewage having an average daily SS concentration of not more than 200 mg/1 and an average daily BOD concentration of not more than 200 mg/1.
(j) "Operation, maintenance and replacement" means all costs, direct and indirect, inclusive of debt service and all expenditures attributable to administration, repair and replacement of the sewer system, and treatment and collection of wastewater and storm water, necessary to ensure adequate collection and treatment on a continuing basis.
(k) "Replacement" means expenditures for obtaining and installing equipment, accessories or appurtenances which are necessary during the useful life of the sewer systems to maintain the capacity and performance for which such sewer systems were designed and constructed.
(l) "Sanitary sewer" means a sewer that conveys water-carried waste from residences, commercial buildings, institutions and to which storm, surface and ground water are not intentionally admitted.
(m) “Service charges" means the sewer rates established, consisting of fixed charges and user charges, in order to generate sufficient revenues to pay the costs of management, operation, maintenance, replacement and repair of the sewer system.
(n) "Sewer system" means the pipes, pumping stations, treatment works and other appurtenances used to convey wastewater or storm water.
(o) "Storm sewer" means the pipes and appurtenances used to convey storm water, surface water and/or subsurface water.
(Ord. 47-19. Passed 11-18-19.)